{"id":77125,"date":"2026-04-23T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/23\/jakarta-profile-worlds-largest-city"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:41:19","slug":"the-big-durian-one-day-in-jakarta-the-worlds-largest-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77125","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018big durian\u2019: one day in Jakarta, the world\u2019s largest city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has officially designated Jakarta the world\u2019s largest city, home to 42 million. We explore a day in the life of the \u2018big durian\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>In December, the United Nations officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/jakarta-overtakes-tokyo-most-populous-city-world\">designated Jakarta the world\u2019s largest city<\/a>, hosting a staggering 42 million inhabitants. Michael Neilson speaks to several people who call the \u2018big durian\u2019 home \u2013 about the positives and the negatives \u2013 and how community and the city\u2019s infamously dry humour get them through.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/23\/jakarta-profile-worlds-largest-city\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has officially designated Jakarta the world\u2019s largest city, home to 42 million. We explore a day in the life of the \u2018big durian\u2019.In December, the United Nations officially designated Jakarta the world\u2019s largest city, hosting a staggering 42 mill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-population"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77125\/revisions\/77126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}