The large-scale social restriction policy only requires authorities to limit the number of passengers using private cars and public transportation, including city buses and commuter trains.

The social assistance is a part of the government’s social safety net programs valued at Rp 110 trillion (US$6.7 billion).

The ministry approved the request as "existing data shows there has been a significant increase and rapid spread of COVID-19 cases, accompanied by local transmission occurrences in the province of Jakarta."

According to Yuni, a 48-year-old activist at transgender advocacy group Yayasan Srikandi Sejati who was also Mira’s friend, the alleged perpetrators had accused Mira of stealing a truck driver’s phone and wallet.

Launched at the weekend, the 120-strong Jakarta team will watch over victims' bodies as they are taken from hospitals to two cemeteries in the sprawling city, where virus corpses are being wrapped in plastic and quickly buried.

The long-winded search for a figure to fill the Jakarta deputy governor position came to an end on Monday after city councillors voted in Gerindra Party politician Ahmad Riza Patria to the post.

As part of the aggressive effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the capital city, the Jakarta administration has instructed all residents to wear masks when engaged in activities outside the home and in particular when using public transportation services.

A total of 18,045 companies in Jakarta have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

The City Council has finally decided on a deputy governor nearly 20 months since the post was left vacant in August 2018.

Under pressure to control rising case numbers and fatalities in the capital, Anies strongly criticized the Health Ministry’s new guidelines on large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) that include an assessment process and show “no sense of urgency”.

The Jakarta City Council is pressing ahead with its plan to select Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan’s deputy governor on Monday despite an extension of the city’s COVID-19 state of emergency.

The Jakarta administration’s sluggish delivery of crucial social assistance funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak is putting the city’s underprivileged citizens at a higher risk of slipping into destitution the longer the crisis stretches on.

The Jakarta administration has extended the closure of tourist destinations and entertainment venues for 17 days starting on Friday as part of the capital’s effort to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Nearly 4,400 burials occurred in March, 40 percent higher than any month since at least January 2018.

As many as 20,532 people across the capital city have undergone COVID-19 rapid testing, with 428 of them having tested positive for the disease.

“The food supply is enough for the needs leading up to Ramadan and through Idul Fitri,” Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said during an online video conference with Vice President Ma’ruf Amin on Thursday.

Regional funds earmarked for urgent expenditures, land acquisitions as well as the preparation for the delayed Formula E electric vehicle race have been reallocated to help the capital city fight the COVID-19 outbreak.

Not all Greater Jakarta city and regency leaders are on the same page as Anies.

Social Affairs Ministry launches assistance program to help residents impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.

The governor said he needed greater authority because Jakarta, the national epicenter of the outbreak, bordered with cities that fall within two neighboring provinces. The cities are Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java and Tangerang in Banten.

The Jakarta administration reported 38 bodies were buried using the COVID-19 funeral protocol on Thursday morning alone.

The Jakarta administration, through city-owned enterprise PT Jakarta Tourisindo (Jaktour), has started recruiting psychologists willing to voluntarily provide counseling sessions for medical staff on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 in Jakarta.

Through a circular, the BPTJ suggests transportation agencies and companies in Greater Jakarta temporarily stop some or all inter-regional transportation services.

A number of parents of University of Indonesia students are providing free food to students from outside the Greater Jakarta area who are currently staying within or near the university's compound in Depok, West Java, during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Fahrul’s dismissal comes after photos of the wedding, which was held on March 21, went viral on social media over the past few days, with many criticizing the police officer’s apparent hypocrisy.

As economic activities continue to get battered by the effects of COVID-19, 38-year-old vegetable trader Endah “Betty” Widiarti has found a way to survive despite having lost customers at her shop in Rumput Market in Setiabudi, South Jakarta.

The Jakarta administration has enlisted the help of local authorities as part of wider efforts to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the capital, which is the national epicenter of the epidemic that has infected more than 1600 people nationwide and killed 157.

The 282 people are to undergo further screening by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests using swabs to confirm the initial results.

A 51-year-old male pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a car in the Lippo Karawaci housing complex in Tangerang, Banten.

Acting transportation minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, who is the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister, sought to have an assessment on the economic impact of such a policy, which might prevent Jakarta residents from going to their hometowns for mudik (exodus), according to the Transportation Ministry’s spokeswoman Ardita Irawati.