The city-owned bus rapid transit (BRT) service, Transjakarta, has also seen its passenger numbers jump by 6 to 12 percent since Jakarta reimposed the odd-even plate policy in early August.

Jakarta will host the annual National Press Day celebration on Feb. 9 next year, Governor Anies Baswedan announced on Wednesday. 

The Jakarta administration has collected around Rp 4 billion (US$271,000) in fines from residents violating COVID-19 health protocols under Gubernatorial Regulation No. 51/2020, which entered into force on June 4.

The Bogor and Depok administrations began imposing curfews last week, requiring places like supermarkets, restaurants and malls to close at 6 p.m. and prohibiting outdoor activities after 8 p.m.

Under the new regulation, self-quarantine will no longer be an option for COVID-19 patients regardless of whether or not they exhibit coronavirus symptoms, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said.

The city is expanding its COVID-19 referral hospitals.

Two months into Jakarta’s plastic bag ban, the policy has yet to yield optimal results, environmentalists have said, urging the administration to step up monitoring of its implementation.

Public places such as restaurants, supermarkets and mall can only operate until 6 p.m., while courier services are allowed to operate until 9 p.m. once Depok administration imposes the curfew policy.

No students had contracted the disease since the facility had yet to be reopened for in-class instruction.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has claimed that the spread of COVID-19 in the capital city is under control despite a recent record spike in new confirmed cases, arguing that increased testing has contributed to the increase.

Dwi Oktavia, the Jakarta Health Agency's head of disease control and prevention division, said that 70 percent of Sunday’s positive cases were tested on Aug. 24 and 25. She added that based on an average incubation period of six days, most of the infections would have taken place between Aug. 16 and 17.

Malls will be required to close at 6 p.m. and people will be prohibited from conducting outdoor activities after 9 p.m.

The Jakarta Red Cross has received between 100 and 200 bags of donated blood a day during the COVID-19 pandemic, a fraction of the pre-pandemic average of 1,000 bags a day.

The program aims to optimize internet connections at 2,619 hotspots and provide 1,200 more hotspots in densely populated residential areas in North Jakarta, Central Jakarta, West Jakarta, East Jakarta and South Jakarta and Thousand Islands regency.

A joint expert team has unearthed the remains of a structure believed to date back to the Dutch colonial era at the Bekasi railway station in West Java during the laying of double-double tracks (DDT).

The nation's capital has, for the fifth time, extended its "transitional" COVID-19 restrictions toward reopening the economy, despite the governor's earlier threat on "tighter" restrictions as the city edges ever closer to the benchmark 10 percent positivity rate.

East Jakarta Police chief Comr. Arie Ardian said IP was already a drug convict serving his sentence in Bagansiapiapi prison in Rokan Hilir regency, Riau.

Jakarta recorded on Thursday an addition of 760 positive cases, bringing the total to 36,213 confirmed cases with more than 1,100 deaths and 28,000 recoveries.

The toll-road bike lane -- which would stretch from Kebon Nanas in East Jakarta to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta -- would only be open on Sundays from 6 to 9 a.m.

The Jakarta administration and cinema owners are gearing up to reopen movie theaters soon after consulting with the COVID-19 task force, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said on Wednesday.

AGO spokesperson Hari Setiyono said that, while the AGO building had not been officially classified as a cultural heritage site, it was located in a designated cultural restoration area and was in the process of becoming an official heritage site.

The East Jakarta Police have arrested a Quran teacher in Jakarta who allegedly molested three children.

Depok has recorded a total of 1,945 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Monday with 65 fatalities. 

For the past two weeks, around 40 members of CARE have been working to investigate the deaths of stray cats, which often roam and inhabit the Rasuna area.

The Jakarta Police have found that a woman allegedly paid Rp 200 million (US$13,606) for the murder of Sugianto, the owner of private company PT DTJ.

The Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency dispatched 23 fire engines and 120 firefighters to extinguish the blaze.

The fine will be increased to Rp 500,000 or 120 minutes of community service for those who are caught violating the regulation a second time.

Flying a kite around an airport is considered dangerous because it can tangle up inside an airplane’s engine.

Toll road operator Jasa Marga reported 162,938 vehicles leaving Jakarta on the eve of Islamic New Year on Wednesday, while train operator PT KAI recorded 7,800 passengers.

Kampung Akuarium residents have decided to rebuild their settlement with a kampung susun (vertical village) concept.