WHEN he decided to build Podomoro City, Trihatma Kusuma Haliman was only thinking: how to create a zone that offers facilities and basic needs to those wishing to live in the city hub. “It’s because of the back-to-city trend among citizens today,” he once told Tempo. It was prompted by the unsolved problem of transportation leading to Jakarta outskirts, making life even more inconvenient.

The integrated zone concept was thus introduced, w