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Health concerns spark strong opposition to reopening of Rorotan RDF plant

A local group representing thousands of residents has put up stiff opposition against the plan to reopen the refuse-derived fuel (RDF) plant in Rorotan, North Jakarta, in the next few months given its apparent impact on residents’ health.

11 hours ago
Jakarta

Pramono launches free preschool program for poor children

Making good on his campaign promise for educational equity, the governor has launched a pilot free preschool program in a bid to help children from poor families in the city. ...

1 day ago
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Pramono’s 24-hour parks plan raises security concerns

Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung’s plan to keep several parks open for 24 hours to provide affordable nighttime leisure, as well as curbing teenage brawls has been met with caution by observers, who warn that the parks could instead be misused by “irresponsible parties” if the security aspects are overlooked. ...

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A security officer stands by at Central Park Mall in Jakarta on June 3, 2020.
City

Malls may close, cinemas to remain shut as Jakarta reimposes PSBB

The malls’ daily needs retailers may be allowed to stay open, and restaurants may be permitted to provide delivery services only.

4 years ago
Traffic is congested on the Cawang-Grogol toll road in South Jakarta on June 5.
City

Satellite cities undecided about following Jakarta with strict virus curbs

Leaders of Jakarta's satellite cities are still undecided on whether they should follow the capital city in reimposing stricter COVID-19 restrictions that will take effect on Monday.

4 years ago
The Jakarta Police general crimes director Sr. Comr. Tubagus Ade Hidayat (second right) and Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunis (second left) show evidence linked to the death of Metro TV editor Yodi Prabowo during a press conference at Jakarta Police headquarters on July 25.
City

Police arrest man claiming to be killer of Metro TV editor

The man claimed to have killed Yodi to scare off a friend of the editor, with whom he was involved in a feud.

4 years ago
Passengers of a commuter service wait for their trains at the Tanah Abang railway station in Central Jakarta on June 9, 2020.
City

Medical association advises 3-week PSBB period for Jakarta

Three weeks would cover the virus’ 14-day incubation period and an extra transitional week to completely curb transmission, IDI said.

4 years ago
Cars are stuck in traffic on the Cawang-Grogol toll road in Jakarta as the capital sees residents and commuters return to their out-of-house activities during the easing of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) on June 5. The governor announced on Wednesday that the curbs would be imposed.
City

Jakarta lockdown aimed at preventing collapse of healthcare system

“Without strict restrictions, [a collapsed healthcare system] is a disaster waiting to happen," Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said while announcing a decision to reimpose strict restrictions starting next week.

4 years ago
Traffic congestion on Jl. Sudirman, Jakarta, on March 16, 2020.
City

Jakarta to lift odd-even policy with return of PSBB

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said the odd-even policy would no longer be in effect starting Monday as businesses are once again expected to order their employees to work remotely from home.

4 years ago
A woman walks past a mural depicting a masked medical team waving an Indonesian flag on Jl. Raya Setu in Cipayung, East Jakarta, on Monday.
City

Wear your mask even if it's uncomfortable, Anies says

Anies called on influential figures to convince people to wear masks in public, saying the campaign needed more support.

4 years ago
The Slipi-Kemanggisan toll road in West Jakarta looks almost empty on April 10, after Jakarta imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to rising case numbers and deaths, the Jakarta administration decided on Wednesday to reimpose the restrictions starting on Sept. 14, after they had been eased for a few months.
City

Not enough for Jakarta alone to reimpose COVID-19 restrictions: Epidemiologists

Dicky Budiman, an Indonesian epidemiologist at Australia’s Griffith University, said Anies’ decision was bold and based on data, and he called on other administrations across Java to all impose the PSBB in order to see effective results.

4 years ago
Illustration of beating.
City

Viral video captures brawl in North Jakarta waters

The video, posted on Sunday by Instagram account @jakut.info, showed dozens of young people having a confrontation in the waters while swimming, some of them carrying various kinds of sharp weapons.

4 years ago
An official from MRT Jakarta walks inside an empty train on Dec. 10, 2018.
City

What you need to know about large-scale social restrictions in Jakarta

Jakarta is set to impose again large-scale social restrictions to further limit movement starting Monday, but what does this mean?

5 years ago
Medical workers arrange hospital beds at a COVID-19 hospital in the Kemayoran Athlete Village apartment complex in Jakarta on March 23. The emergency hospital can accommodate up to 3,000 patients.
City

COVID-19: With no intervention, Jakarta predicted to run out of hospital beds by December

Jakarta Health Agency data previously showed that daily isolation bed occupancy rates in the city's 67 referral hospital began to gradually increase to around 50 percent after July 20. 

4 years ago
Members of the Bike to Work (B2W) community educate cyclists about traffic rules on Jl. Sudirman in Central Jakarta on July 3, 2020 during a campaign to maintain bike lanes in the capital.
City

Makeshift bike lanes on Jl. Sudirman to become permanent

"At the moment we are only using traffic cones [to mark the bike lanes], however we are setting up a plan to make those lanes along Jl. Sudirman to Bundaran HI permanent," Jakarta Transportation Agency head Syafrin Liputo said on Wednesday as reported by kompas.com.

4 years ago
A car lies damaged following an attack at the Ciracas Police Station in East Jakarta on Aug. 29, 2020. Fifty-six personnel of the Indonesian Military (TNI) have been named suspects for alleged involvement in the attack.
City

56 TNI personnel named suspects for alleged attack on Ciracas Police Station

Fifty-six personnel of the Indonesian Military (TNI) have been named suspects for alleged involvement in an attack on the Ciracas Police Station in East Jakarta on Aug. 29.

4 years ago
Medical workers inspect equipment at the former athletes village in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, which has been converted into an emergency hospital to treat COVID-19 patients.
City

Jakarta gears up for possible collapse of healthcare system

On Wednesday evening, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan decided to reinforce stricter restrictions that will take effect starting next week due to the surge in COVID-19 deaths and rising hospitalizations since mid-August.

4 years ago
Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (center) and Home Minister Tito Karnavian (right) at a press conference on COVID-19 at Jakarta's City Hall on March 17.
City

Jakarta reimposes PSBB, orders people to stay home

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced on Wednesday that the administration was reimposing the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) policy amid a rising number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the capital.

4 years ago
The Jakarta administration is set to hold a special meeting on Wednesday to assess its COVID-19 countermeasures as cases in the capital continue to rise.
City

Jakarta to evaluate COVID-19 policy amid ‘alarming’ situation

In the past week, Anies said, Jakarta's positivity rate – the percentage of COVID-19 tests that return a positive result – had increased to 13.2 percent.

4 years ago
Industrial COVID-19 clusters discovered in the Bekasi and Karawang regencies of West Java reached 500 cases on Tuesday, prompting demands for increased testing and tracing.
City

Industrial COVID-19 clusters in Bekasi, Karawang reach 500 cases

Industrial COVID-19 clusters discovered in the Bekasi and Karawang regencies of West Java reached 500 cases on Tuesday, prompting demands for increased testing and tracing.

4 years ago
Three workers polish the concrete base of the LRT railway in Kampung Makassar, East Jakarta. The railway is part of the Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Bekasi (Jabodebek) LRT, which will open to the public in July 2022, property developer and state-owned construction firm PT Adhi Karya has confirmed.
City

Greater Jakarta LRT to open to public in July 2022

The Greater Jakarta LRT serving Jakarta, Bogor, Depok and Bekasi will open to the public in July 2022, property developer and state-owned construction firm PT Adhi Karya has confirmed.

4 years ago
Numbers matter: Vehicles pass under a digital banner carrying information on the reimplementation of the odd-even plate policy on Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta.
City

Jakarta to reevaluate odd-even policy after reports of COVID-19 clusters on public transportation

The Jakarta administration is set to reevaluate the odd-even license plate policy in the capital after recent reports of COVID-19 clusters emerging from public transportation.

4 years ago
A gravedigger writes the name of a deceased COVID-19 victim on a cross at Pondok Ranggon public cemetery in East Jakarta.
City

More than 5,000 bodies buried under COVID-19 protocols in Jakarta

Pondok Ranggon cemetery in East Jakarta is expected to run out of space for COVID-19 burials in October.

4 years ago
Survivor: The Sarinah Thamrin department store, built in preparation for the 1962 Asian Games, was once the tallest building in Indonesia.
City premium

Jakarta’s oldest high-rise building Sarinah to have new look next year

A renovation project that started in July will transform the historic Sarinah building in Central Jakarta.

4 years ago
Water crisis: Residents of Citapen hamlet in Weninggalih village, Bogor, West Java, carry away water taken from a well during the dry season on July 25, 2019. Prolonged droughts in many parts of the world have been linked to climate change.
City

Over 50,000 people in Bogor affected by drought

As many as 54,194 people have been affected by a drought in Bogor, West Java, the Bogor Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD Bogor) has said.

4 years ago
A joint team of officials from the Jakarta and Central Jakarta prosecutor's offices arrest former Transjakarta president director Donny Andy Sarmedi Saragih at an apartment in North Jakarta on Sept. 4, 2020.
City

Former Transjakarta president director arrested after fleeing fraud conviction

A joint team of prosecutors arrested on Friday the former president director of city-owned transportation company PT Transjakarta, Donny Andy Sarmedi Saragih, who has been at large since 2019 after he was convicted of fraud.

4 years ago
Love wins: A passerby hugs an activist campaigning for the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community during Car Free Day in Jakarta on June 16, 2019.
City

Police lambasted for targeting LGBT community in raid in Jakarta

Civil society groups argue that the police violated the suspects' right to a fair trial during the raid and the investigation.

4 years ago
Workers dig graves while others place the body of a COVID-19 victim in a burial plot at the Pondok Ranggon public cemetery in East Java on July 27.
City

Jakarta cemetery space about to run out as COVID-19 burials increase

East Jakarta’s Pondok Ranggon cemetery expects to run out of space for COVID-19 graves in October because of the recent increase in the number of burials.

4 years ago
Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (center) greets officials after leading a ceremony to commemorate Jakarta's 493rd anniversary at City Hall in Central Jakarta on June 22.
City

Jakarta on ‘right track’ in COVID-19 handling, Anies says, despite rising numbers

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has claimed that the administration in doing well in tackling COVID-19 in the capital city, despite a spike in new confirmed cases.

4 years ago
People wearing masks to protect against COVID-19 sit in a park in Jakarta on Aug. 22.
City

More than 139,000 penalized for not wearing masks in Jakarta since June

Some 14,000 people have been fined.

4 years ago
Rehearsing death: A man is made to lie in a make-believe coffin for failing to wear a face mask in Kalisari, East Jakarta, on Sept. 4. The punishment was initiated by a joint team of the Jakarta Public Order Agency, police and military in the area to warn people about the danger of COVID-19.
City

Satpol PP to stop controversial fake coffin punishment

The lie-in-a-fake-coffin punishment is not an official punishment for health protocol violators, East Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) head Budhy Novian says.

4 years ago
West Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency officers have rescued a kitten stuck inside a 19-liter water jug in Tegal Alur, Cengkareng, West Jakarta.
City

West Jakarta firefighters save kitten stuck inside water jug

The kitten’s head was stuck in the neck of the vessel.

4 years ago
Medical staff check a room prepared for COVID-19 patients at Pertamina Jaya Hospital in Cempaka Putih, Jakarta, recently.
City

Jakarta to add 11 COVID-19 reference hospitals following another case spike

Jakarta currently has 67 COVID-19 referral hospitals and 170 hospitals providing services for COVID-19 patients.

4 years ago
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