ENVIRONMENTAL, social and governance (ESG) practices have been increasingly recognised by organisations as more than a responsibility, that they are opportunities to build a sustainable business and a key differentiator to enhance relevancy and improve stakeholders’ trust.
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In a different world, I would have filed this piece from the Jakarta bureau on a grey December afternoon, the sky pregnant with the promise of wet-season rain.
Finished, I d have hopped on a Go-Jek motorcycle taxi, headed down the road to Por Que No in central Menteng and, from the fifth-floor rooftop bar, looked out one last time at Barack Obama s old school, at the McMansions, the street carts and the slums that sit side-by-side in the sinking, polluted concrete mess that is Jakarta.
Karen Barlow and James Massola with children Sabina and twins Carlo and Giacomo on their way to Jakarta.