Jakarta, April 3 -- The Jakarta Population and Civil Registry Office (Dukcapil) recorded that around 34.97 percent of Jakarta newcomers, after last year's Eid holiday, came to seek jobs, making it the primary factor for migration to Jakarta.

"Those who come to Jakarta certainly want to find work. The factors of seeking employment are strengthened by the high number of newcomers in the productive age group," Head of Jakarta Dukcapil Denny Wahyu Haryanto remarked in a podcast monitored here on Friday.

The percentage citing employment reasons is higher than family reasons (32.58 percent), job transfers (15.59 percent), housing (13.04 percent), education (3.49 percent), health (0.29 percent), and security (0.03 percent).

In terms of age, 7...