Dozens of homes burned down in the Teluk Gong area of North Jakarta on Saturday 17 July.

Dozens of Jakarta firefighters were deployed to the scene.

The fire has reportedly left 600 people homeless.

Teluk Gong is a ramshackle, impoverished neighbourhood, where homes are packed closely together and particularly vulnerable to fire.

An electrical short is suspected to be the cause of the fire.

Dozens of houses caught fire in Teluk Gong, North Jakarta this afternoon. Dozens of DKI Jakarta firefighters were deployed to the field to extinguish the fire.

from tens of houses which burned down 400 houses and 600 people were left homeless.

The cause of the fire is suspected to be from an electrical short in one of the houses he lives in