Thursday, May 23 2013, 19:35 PM

Jakarta

Traffic control unit still not running at full tilt

With a shoestring budget, the Jakarta Transportation Agency is developing a fully-automated intelligent traffic system (ITS) that is as sophisticated…

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  • IBRA not involved in Bank Bali scandal: Glenn

    JAKARTA (JP): Former chairman of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) Glenn M.S. Yusuf testified on Thursday that the agency was not involved in a January 1999 cessie contract between…

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  • Sutiyoso away to Pusan to attend regional meeting

    JAKARTA (JP): In a move to anticipate harsh criticism over city officials' costly lifestyles, Governor Sutiyoso decided to drop his planned trips to aLatin America country and an European country…

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  • Highlanders will gather here again after two year absence

    JAKARTA (JP): Organizers of this year's Jakarta Highland Gathering estimated that some 10,000 people will attend the event at Pelita Harapan School compound Lippo Karawaci, a 30 minute drive west…

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  • Zarina remains tightlipped over her pregnancy

    JAKARTA (JP): Very much affected by televised gossip of Zarina Mirafsur's pregnancy, dozens of print and television journalists thronged the West Jakarta District Court on Friday to search for the…

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  • Commemoration of 1998 shooting marred by clash

    JAKARTA (JP): Hundreds of university students taking part in a commemoration of the May 12, 1998 fatal shooting of four Trisakti University students clashed with security personnel while rallying near

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  • Street workers go on strike

    BOGOR (JP): Some 400 temporary workers of the Bogor sanitation agency went on strike on Thursday, demanding wage increases equal to the official regional minimum wage (UMR) plus several basic…

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  • Chinese-Indonesian hold rally

    JAKARTA (JP): Some 20 activists of a Chinese-Indonesian youth organization staged a rally on Thursday in front of the State Palace on Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara in Central Jakarta to…

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  • Police dismayed over street justice murders

    JAKARTA (JP): West Jakarta Police and Bekasi Police were dismayed by the number of vigilante murders that occurred on Wednesday evening.

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  • Glodok Plaza to be built as first cyber mall

    JAKARTA (JP): Glodok Plaza electronic and computer shopping center in downtown Kota, West Jakarta, one of the many gutted buildings during the May 1998 riots, will be developed as the…

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  • Cloth thief jumps from third floor of Pasaraya

    JAKARTA (JP): A 20-year-old man who was apprehended on Thursday morning by security guards after being caught stealing clothes at the seven-story Pasaraya department store in Blok M, South Jakarta,…

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