Earth is ghetto8 billion roommates, zero security deposit1 in 3 households crushed by housing costsOne hospital bill from bankruptcyIncome inequality: above 0.40 and climbingLife expectancy: don't get too attachedAir quality: questionablePolitical polarization: surgingHomicide rates: location-dependentNow scoring 9 metrics — Gini coefficient addedRecommendation: do not move in

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Indonesia

Cooked Index
29/ 100
Global Rank
32/ 72
32nd Most Cooked
Top 3 Pain Points
  • Air pollution (PM2.5)#13
  • Life expectancy#15
  • Billionaires hoarded#19
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Overview

Indonesia lands at #32 of 72 on the Cooked Index — #32 Most Cooked. The clearest fault line runs through political institutions: political polarization (Polarization 60/100) is worse than 42% of countries tracked. Housing policy isn't far behind — housing cost burden trails 58% of the field. And environmental and industrial policy rounds out the picture: air pollution (PM2.5 35.4 µg/m³) sits worse than 82% of countries. Same scoreboard, different departments.

Overall score: 29/100 — 2 points above the global median of 27 (higher = more cooked). Where the system is holding up: homicide rate (Homicide 0.4/100k) — better than 96% of countries tracked. The story here isn't the country — it's the political institutions stack behind these numbers.

Sources: V-Dem + Global Peace Index (2025) · OECD Affordable Housing Database (HC1.2) (2024) · IQAir World Air Quality Report (2025)

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