Jakarta tops league table of emerging world cities



JAKARTA: -- The Jakarta Globe reported that New York and London remain the world’s most global cities, while select emerging-market cities led by Jakarta, Manila and Addis Ababa strengthened their ability to challenge global leaders in the next 10 to 20 years, citing this year’s Global Cities Index issued by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.

The 2014 edition of the Global Cities Index also includes the Emerging Cities Outlook 2014, a forward-looking measurement of emerging cities with the potential to improve their global standing in the next few decades. Jakarta ranked first among 35 cities most likely to move up the rankings.

John Kurtz, A.T. Kearney’s head of Asia Pacific and president director of A.T. Kearney Indonesia, explained that “the study now confirms what so many Jakarta residents know; the city has its share of challenges but has become truly global in a variety of ways and is now attracting talent from both the Indonesian and global business and cultural communities.

“Recent leadership by Governor JokoWidodo and Deputy Governor BasukiTjahajaPurnama has lent further credibility and optimism to the picture and it is very clear that Jakarta is on the rise.”

The Global Cities Index, conducted every two years since 2008, measures global engagement for 84 cities on every continent, examining how globally engaged each city is across 26 metrics in five dimensions — business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience and political engagement.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/jakarta-tops-league-table-emerging-world-cities/


-- Thai PBS 2014-04-14

So sorry (Elite Thailand) but you can't dodgy up the figures on this one.

You can fool yourselves most of the time! And the rest of the world? well not at all.