JAKARTA: Thousands of public employees in Jakarta, or half of its civil servants, were told to work from home starting on Monday in a two-month trial aimed at improving the Indonesian capital's air quality, a government notice said.
Jakarta and its surrounding cities form a megalopolis of about 30 million people, and its airborne concentration of the tiny particles known as PM 2.5 recently surpassed other heavily polluted cities, such as Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Doha in Qatar and Lahore in Pakistan.
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