Novan Tivani has a new occupation: staring at newspaper pages. The rows of property ads in a famous media in the capital city are the focus of the 33-year-old man. “My boss asked me to look for a new building in a strategic location in the southern area for next year,” said Novan, human resources director at a telecommunications company in Central Jakarta, at the end of last November.

For four days he looked around, and at the end it was a b