Dozens of activists and students staged a rally in the Alam Sutera housing complex on Jl. Raya Serpong in Banten, on Wednesday, accusing the property developer of illegally taking the South Tangerang administration’s land.

The Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Customs and Excise Office busted three attempts to smuggle methamphetamine from China and Malaysia with a total weight of 4.6 kilograms during the past three weeks.

The city administration and the Jakarta branch of the Food and Drug Monitory Agency (BPOM) will cooperate to establish a pilot project to improve the sanitary practices of street-food vendors and the quality of food they sell.

As many as 350 West Jakarta Police personnel underwent drug tests on Wednesday following the recent arrest of a police officer who was named a suspect in a drug-abuse case.

City owned bus operator Transjakarta is set to manage the operation of Kopaja minibuses on route S66, from Blok M to Manggarai in South Jakarta, as a part of a wider plan to revamp the capital’s public transportation.

The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) set alight 862 kilograms (kg) of methamphetamine on Tuesday, worth Rp 1.7 trillion (US$136 million).

Jakarta sits at the bottom of the list of 50 cities in the overall Safe Cities Index 2015, an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report released on Monday.

Jakarta-based private engineering firm PT Basuki Pratama Engineering has offered to cooperate with the administration on waste management.

The West Jakarta municipality authorities have raided a number of places known to be illegal dumping spots, targeting litterbugs in the process.

The administration is to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Jakarta branch of the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) to supervise food and drugs in the city.

The Tangerang Police have arrested 40-year-old Luzi Nadia Koes Endang, the sister of veteran singer Hetty Koes Endang, for alleged drug abuse.

In an unexpected development, the South Jakarta Police revealed on Tuesday that 23-year-old Christopher Daniel Sjarief, a driver involved in a car crash that killed four people, had not been proven to have consumed lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) prior to the incident, as the police had earlier stated.

The city administration will ask state-owned contractor PT Adhi Karya to dismantle steel pillars built for a planned monorail system in 2004 along Jl. HR Rasuna Said and Jl. Asia Afrika in South Jakarta as the unfinished pillars are considered an eyesore.

Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has asked city-owned property developer PT Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro) to buy shares of Jakarta soccer club Persija, following its declining performance on the field.

The Jakarta Police have arrested 2,043 suspected thugs on the street in the past week, with 160 people to be charged for violating the law.

The city administration has opened seven municipal-level Goods and Services Procurement Agency (ULP) units to boost budget spending this year.

Three family members died in a fire that engulfed a rented house that also functioned as a gasoline kiosk on Jl. Kebon Baru in Semper Barat, Cilincing, North Jakarta, early on Saturday.