Indonesia’s leading English-language newspaper kicked off 2023 by conducting a readers’ survey that involved 225 respondents, with five survey participants selected readers of a special event held on Monday at The Jakarta Post studio in Palmerah, Jakarta.

After a two-year absence, the Jakarta administration is set to resume public New Year’s Eve celebrations, with the main event set to take place in the newly renovated Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII).

What began as a tweet from a National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) climatologist has spiraled into conflicting weather warnings that bamboozled many Greater Jakarta residents.

As Jakarta resumes normal service in 2022 with the worst of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, the capital’s 10 million residents, plus 18 million more from the surrounding satellite cities, have found themselves dealing again with one of the city’s perennial problems: heavy traffic.

Authorities have sounded the alarm about heavy rain that is expected to hit Jakarta on Wednesday, amid a wider threat of extreme weather that still looms over numerous provinces across the country this week and at least until Jan. 2.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said the Jakarta administration had made a proposal to the central government for a new train station.

In the latest fire incident at a government facility, a small fire broke out at the Home Ministry yesterday with no reported casualties.

It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries in the blaze. The South Jakarta fire department has not given any details on what caused the fire.

MRT Jakarta announced on Tuesday that it would extend the operational hours by one hour from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. effective immediately. Operational hours start at 5 a.m. on weekdays and at 6 a.m. on weekends.

Acting Jakarta governor Heru Budi Hartono is continuing the river normalization project on the Ciliwung River to mitigate flooding in the city, which has previously been halted. 

MRT Jakarta has unearthed approximately 100 meters of a Dutch-colonial era double track railway on Jl. Gajah Mada on Wednesday.

The city administration and related disaster organizations are getting in gear for an extended forecast of thunderstorms, heavy rain and strong winds until next February.

Several slum kampungs in northern Jakarta have adopted a collective housing model and would like the government to know of their success.

The Jakarta administration is working to improve park-and-ride facilities throughout the city to encourage more people to use public transportation.

Urbanists are raising concerns about the Jakarta administration's plan to revamp and potentially commercialize the city’s historic landmark, Monas.

The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) and the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) have voiced their disapproval of the Jakarta administration's plan to impose staggered working hours to alleviate the city's chronic traffic issues.

State-owned news agency LKBN Antara plans to move its newsroom to its old address in Pasar Baru, one of historic quarters of Central Jakarta.

Heru unveiled the plan following his meeting with State-owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir who pledged to provide assistance for the project, which overall will give a new look to Jakarta's best-known landmark.

Dramatic footage obtained by AFP showed a thick column of grey smoke engulfing the dome while the flames destroyed the lower parts of the Jakarta Islamic Centre Grand Mosque on Wednesday.

Former Jakarta administrator-turned-State Palace insider Heru Budi Hartono officially assumed his role as the capital’s caretaker governor on Monday, beginning a lengthy term that could run into 2024.

Anies Baswedan stepped down from his position as Jakarta governor on Sunday, becoming the first leader of the city in 10 years to complete a full five-year term in office.

Days after receiving the NasDem Party’s backing for the 2024 presidential race, outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan is facing renewed criticism over his handling of the city’s perennial flooding problem, including from the central government and the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

President Joko “Jokowi" Widodo has named one of his inner circle as interim Jakarta governor who will start to work next week: his own secretary Heru Budi Hartono.

"I have told Pak Heru that the primary problem in Jakarta is flooding and traffic jams, and there needs to be significant progress on that," Jokowi said on Monday as quoted by Antara.

Local police are combing through a school complex in Cilandak, South Jakarta in search of casualties, after the stage wall of a school collapsed due to flooding, killing three schoolchildren.

The Greater Jakarta metropolitan region houses around 30 million people and is regularly hit by floods in the rainy season.

Heavy rains and flooding also hit other parts of the country, with more rain forecast across the archipelago for the rest of the week.

Amidst the fuel price-hike on Sept. 3, bus and MRT operators in Jakarta have seen a minor uptick in passenger numbers. 

The development of ITF Sunter waste-to-energy incinerator has long been under scrutiny by environmentalists, who have warned of possible health hazards, including toxic fumes released by the facility.

A year after a court found President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and top-ranking officials in central and local administrations guilty of negligence for failing to tackle chronic air pollution in Jakarta, activists say there has been little in the way of actual implementation of the ruling.