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Women-only public transport is proving to be a big hit in Jakarta

Women-only public transport is proving to be a big hit in Jakarta

With sexual assaults on public transport hitting an all-time high in the UK last summer, there have been increasing calls for segregated systems.

While Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's suggestion that he was open to discussing women-only carriages on trains was shot down, the success of a similar system in Indonesia's capital Jakarta shows they may actually prove popular. As Reuters' Fransiska Nangoy reports...

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