Parts of Greater Jakarta have said they are ready to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), as regional heads have been drafting decrees on such a policy.

Usman, who regularly transports goods and passengers around Cilandak, South Jakarta, said his income had dropped by 50 percent.

The Jakarta Police have scaled up security patrols on the roads and in supermarkets to ensure that the public follow large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) that were imposed by the Jakarta administration on Friday to slow the spread of COVID-19.

An uneasy calm has blanketed much of Jakarta as the city made it through the first day of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) despite concerns over possible social unrest.

Customers will still be able to hail a car, send packages and get food delivered.

On the first day of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta on Friday, roads around the city have been almost empty. However, some road users still seemed unaware of the new regulation.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has urged all residents to stay at home for the next 14 days as the capital city imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) on Friday to cut the chain of COVID-19 spread.

The North Jakarta Police have said that a group of six men who fatally burned a transgender woman did not intend to cause death.

Healthcare platform Halodoc and ride-hailing app Gojek in cooperation with Mitra Keluarga Hospital and Kemayoran Complex Management Center (PPKK) plan to offer free rapid COVID-19 testing to some Jakartans from April 10 to 17.

The Jakarta Police have said they have no plans to close any roads in the capital during the two weeks of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) that will begin on Friday.

Jakarta Environment Agency head Andono Warih has said that the amount of trash sent to the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, West Java, has decreased from 1,500 tons per day to around 620 tons per day. 

The first phase of aid distribution began on Thursday and will last until April 18. It will target 1.2 million underprivileged and vulnerable families affected by COVID-19.

Health Ministry Regulation No. 9/2020 on the guidelines for large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) stipulates various restrictions, including the ban on ojek services for passengers. However, ojek drivers are still permitted to transport goods.

What you need to know about Jakarta's public transportation services during the large-scale social restrictions that will be in place for two weeks starting Friday.

Clad in a plastic sheet held together with tape, a ski mask, a gas mask and latex gloves, Maulanasyah, 40, welcomes customers at his salon in the city of Bogor, south of Jakarta, even as the virus spreads across the country.

Bogor Deputy Mayor Dedie A. Rachim praised Jakarta’s PSBB policies and said that Bogor, West Java, would seek to implement its own measures soon.

Economic activities in Jakarta account for about 70 percent of the nation’s total.

The Greater Jakarta city is converting a variety of facilities to accommodate medical workers, who have experienced social discrimination in regions across the country for being on the front lines of Indonesia's fight against COVID-19.

"The beneficiaries will receive Rp 600,000 [US$37.11] per person [that is supposed to be sufficient] for three months," said Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Tuesday.

Full-blown social-distancing measures effective on Friday.

Associations of app-based ojek (motorcycle taxi) drivers have demanded compensation from the government for their projected losses from the implementation of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in Jakarta aimed to breaking the chain of COVID-19 infection in the capital city.

"This is the highest number of domestic violence cases we’ve ever recorded [in a period of two weeks]," LBH Apik told The Jakarta Post.

The COVID-19 burial protocols require every body to be wrapped in plastic, put inside a coffin that is also wrapped in another layer of plastic and interred less than four hours after death.

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.