Finalists announced for hotly-contested “Jakarta Urban Challenge” competition
· “Jakarta Urban Challenge” aims to champion effective solutions to traffic problems in Jakarta · Three finalists and five semi-finalists picked out of 226 applications · Each finalist to present at the New Cities Summit in Jakarta (June 9 -11) and win a share of $20,000 to implement their project in Indonesia’s capital · The international judging panel includes: Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize recipient and Founder of Grameen Bank and Sutanto Soehodho, Jakarta’s Deputy Governor for Industry Trade and TransportationJakarta Indonesia – May 26, 2015. The New Cities Foundation and