On a rainy day in Jakarta, three men coated in metallic paint known as the "manusia silver", or silvermen, brave the elements at an intersection near a mall to ask drivers for change.
1 day agoThe Jakarta administration’s newly launched free preschool initiative for underprivileged children has received a positive reception from the public, but experts have called for a review of the program’s beneficiary selection process, citing shortcomings in the government’s data recording system. ...
1 day agoA 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. ...
2 days agoBPTJ spokesperson Budi Rahardjo said the app could help users decide whether they wanted to continue traveling to a certain area in Greater Jakarta after considering its exposure to COVID-19.
4 years agoUnder the policy, driver’s licenses with expiration dates between March 17 until May 29 will remain valid until the end of August.
4 years agoNightlife businesses are caught between a rock and a hard place. They are aware that reopening entertainment places during the ongoing epidemic increases the risk of new infections in the city, but many working in the industry are losing income.
4 years agoDuring the easing period, Jakarta is gradually opening places of worship, workplaces, public places, public transportation and educational institutions, but still requires health protocols in those sectors.
4 years agoThe city administration decided on Thursday to extend Jakarta’s large-scale social restriction (PSBB) period to the end of June while easing measures for several sectors.
4 years agoKCI recorded 150,000 commuters using its services on Monday morning.
4 years agoJakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has announced that ride-hailing ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers are allowed to transport passengers again starting on Monday.
4 years agoJakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said on Monday that the provincial administration would not impose the odd-even vehicle restriction policy yet despite acknowledging that personal vehicles were crowding the streets of Jakarta as the large-scale social restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 had been relaxed.
4 years agoAfter months of praying at home, Muslims in Jakarta are now able to perform Friday prayers in mosques on Friday following the transitional period in the capital city that starts to ease restrictions in public spaces in the capital city.
4 years agoMRT Jakarta resumes normal operation starting Friday as the city administration has announced the start of the transition period for the gradual easing of its large-scale social restrictions (PSBB).
4 years agoJakarta PSBB regime has been extended but with fewer restrictions.
4 years agoJakarta, the first epicenter of the COVID-19 epidemic in Indonesia, is claiming a reduction in the rate of infections and welcomes a period of fewer restrictions, including the reopening of houses of worship, beginning on Friday.
4 years agoJakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has decided to extend the period of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) to the end of June as Indonesia’s capital city enters the transition phase with gradual easing plans in place for several sectors.
4 years agoStaying at home for months has inevitably fueled anxiety and boredom among many people, who then struggle to cope with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their mental health in a variety of ways.While some people have found a quick fix through virtual connections with loved ones, others have found it through a personal respite: cycling.
4 years agoResidents of the region and Greater Jakarta identity card holders traveling within Greater Jakarta are not required to obtain an exit and entry permit (SIKM).
4 years agoThe Jakarta administration is set to begin implementing “new normal” protocols this week. However, it remains unclear when nightclubs and massage parlors will reopen and under what restrictions.
4 years agoPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo visited Istiqlal on Tuesday to check on the renovations. He said that according to the Mosque’s grand imam, Nasaruddin Umar, the large-scale renovations were 90 percent complete and would be finished in July, several months later than the initial schedule for March due to the pandemic.
4 years agoIndonesia’s first MRT service, MRT Jakarta, has called on its passengers to avoid having conversations while riding on its trains in a bid to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission on public transportation.
4 years agoThe administration of South Tangerang has decided to dump its urban waste in Tangerang regency's landfill while its own landfill in Cipeucang, Serpong, is being restored after a perimeter wall recently collapsed, spilling 100 tons of waste into a river.
4 years agoAuthorities in East Jakarta are readying the city-owned Pulogadung Sports Hall as a quarantine center for people returning to Jakarta after the Idul Fitri holiday who do not have an exit and entry permit (SIKM).
4 years agoThe former head of state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines is the new president of city-owned bus operator Transjakarta.
4 years agoPT Kereta Commuter Indonesia will not allow overloaded trains to depart from stations as it will continue to apply physical distancing measures during the so-called "new normal" period.
4 years agoCiting National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) data, Airlangga said the spread of the disease had slowed in Central Java, Bali, Jakarta and Yogyakarta, where the basic reproduction number (R0) of COVID-19 had fallen below 1.
4 years agoIt wasn’t until the government started hinting at a post-COVID-19 “new normal” that the debate about commuting in Greater Jakarta began in earnest.
4 years agoThe third phase of restriction implementation in Jakarta could be extended.
4 years agoBekasi Mayor Rahmat “Pepen” Effendi said that malls in Bekasi would be allowed to open on June 4 at the earliest, but were required to operate at 50 percent of their capacity.
4 years agoBekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi confirmed the report, saying they had been picked up by medical workers the following day to be isolated at a hospital in the city.
4 years ago"I haven't seen my parents for almost three months," Lia, a doctor who works at a community health center (Puskesmas) in Duren Sawit district, said.
4 years agoYepi Suherman, the South Tangerang environmental agency secretary, confirmed that the walls had collapsed at around 4.30 a.m on Friday.
4 years agoBappenas claims the basic transmission rate, or R0, for COVID-19 in Jakarta has fallen below one. Epidemiologists believe the outbreak will eventually die out if the R0 remains smaller than one.
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