Anies said that Subejo’s resignation would not impact Jakarta’s flood mitigation efforts, adding that he had appointed an acting chief, Sabdo Alaf, as a temporary replacement.

To avoid misinterpretation of the law, Fahri made it clear that a stop of a few minutes on a street under an overpass to don raincoats was permitted, but added that vehicles should not violate no-parking signs.

The new travel times are available starting on Sunday.

In the decree, issued on Tuesday, Anies urged all city officials – including mayors, agency heads and district and subdistrict heads – to step up efforts to educate the public about the deadly virus.

Local residents tipped off police about a building allegedly being used as a storehouse to hoard masks. Police said the activity was the main cause of the increasing price of masks in the capital over the past two months.

The Batan employee remained a witness in the case as of Saturday. However, the police could still name him a suspect.

Verisk Maplecroft reported in its 2020 Environmental Risk Outlook issued on Thursday that 11 of the 15 cities most at-risk of sinking are Asian cities that are significant financial and trade centers, including Jakarta, which is especially threatened due to its location in the lowlands.

The Bekasi administration has said it will strictly supervise the waste management of each building, including cracking down on those without a drainage system or those with a poorly built sewerage system.

The Dr. Soeharso naval hospital ship met the World Dream in the Durian Strait of the Riau Islands province. The Indonesian crew members were transferred at sea to a hospital ship, which then sailed to about eight kilometers from Sebaru Kecil Island, arriving at 1 p.m. on Friday. Military landing craft then carried the Indonesians the rest of the way to Sebaru.

The victim, 26-year-old Erlinda, was seven months' pregnant.

While many turned the disaster into memes and sarcastic posts directed toward the Jakarta administration, others, however, opted to make use of the situation to spread hoaxes.

Following the latest floods that yet again afflicted dozens of areas, paralyzed transportation and displaced thousands in Greater Jakarta, the administration finally seems to be cottoning on to the fact that the original architects of Law No. 26/2007 on spatial planning knew what they were talking about.

Social media was the main platform for people to voice their complaints, especially toward Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan.

Several pieces of fitness equipment, such as a knee-raise station and a preacher curl machine, like those installed in Ayodya Park and Tebet Park in South Jakarta, can be found in the workout area.

The nine fatalities were in Jakarta; South Tangerang, Banten; and Bekasi, West Java.

The simulation showed that most of the residents still preferred to spend their money on daily expenditures rather than save it.

The central government wants to asses spatial plans for Greater Jakarta and has threatened to tear down houses if necessary to reduce flood risks.

Governor Anies Baswedan said Subejo’s resignation would not hinder flood mitigation.

In Jakarta, the average temperature last year was 0.82 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature between 1981 and 2010.

As of Wednesday, the BNPB’s command center recorded 19,901 displaced residents throughout 214 subdistricts in Greater Jakarta, with East Jakarta as the most affected area. 

Indecent exposure has long been a problem faced by women in the capital, with some having said they were left traumatized or felt unsafe after such incidents.

AirVisual has listed the capital as among the Indonesian cities that have laid claim to the top five slots of most polluted cities in the world, a dubious achievement that some officials have attempted to negate by questioning the data.

With the threat of floods looming over Jakarta until next month, people are gearing up for further disaster.

Students throughout the capital stayed home after the Jakarta Education Agency closed more than 100 of the 375 schools affected by flooding on Tuesday.

The Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency has reported that 973 families consisting of 3,565 people have been evacuated to 40 locations following floods across the city.

The legal right of public access for disabled people is established in Article 97 of Law No. 8/2016 on people with disabilities. The law requires both the central and regional governments to guarantee the accessibility of buildings, roads, residential complexes, parks and cemeteries for people with disabilities.

Dozens of people living around JGC gathered at the AEON mall and the property management office. Violence broke out and windows were broken in the building.

Started in August 2017, the Yes! I Can program aims to empower transgender people, sex workers and street children in the job market.

Mild to severe flooding occurred across Greater Jakarta on Tuesday following heavy rain throughout the previous night.

The people of Jakarta are voicing their frustrations over the city's seeming lack of capability in flood management and control, while it remains to be seen whether a new "flood management committee" will focus on the urgency of the task at hand – or sustain the administration's habit of bickering over blame.