“Without strict restrictions, [a collapsed healthcare system] is a disaster waiting to happen," Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said while announcing a decision to reimpose strict restrictions starting next week.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said the odd-even policy would no longer be in effect starting Monday as businesses are once again expected to order their employees to work remotely from home.

Anies called on influential figures to convince people to wear masks in public, saying the campaign needed more support.

Dicky Budiman, an Indonesian epidemiologist at Australia’s Griffith University, said Anies’ decision was bold and based on data, and he called on other administrations across Java to all impose the PSBB in order to see effective results.

The video, posted on Sunday by Instagram account @jakut.info, showed dozens of young people having a confrontation in the waters while swimming, some of them carrying various kinds of sharp weapons.

Jakarta is set to impose again large-scale social restrictions to further limit movement starting Monday, but what does this mean?

Jakarta Health Agency data previously showed that daily isolation bed occupancy rates in the city's 67 referral hospital began to gradually increase to around 50 percent after July 20. 

"At the moment we are only using traffic cones [to mark the bike lanes], however we are setting up a plan to make those lanes along Jl. Sudirman to Bundaran HI permanent," Jakarta Transportation Agency head Syafrin Liputo said on Wednesday as reported by kompas.com.

Fifty-six personnel of the Indonesian Military (TNI) have been named suspects for alleged involvement in an attack on the Ciracas Police Station in East Jakarta on Aug. 29.

On Wednesday evening, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan decided to reinforce stricter restrictions that will take effect starting next week due to the surge in COVID-19 deaths and rising hospitalizations since mid-August.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced on Wednesday that the administration was reimposing the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) policy amid a rising number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the capital.

In the past week, Anies said, Jakarta's positivity rate – the percentage of COVID-19 tests that return a positive result – had increased to 13.2 percent.

Industrial COVID-19 clusters discovered in the Bekasi and Karawang regencies of West Java reached 500 cases on Tuesday, prompting demands for increased testing and tracing.

The Greater Jakarta LRT serving Jakarta, Bogor, Depok and Bekasi will open to the public in July 2022, property developer and state-owned construction firm PT Adhi Karya has confirmed.

The Jakarta administration is set to reevaluate the odd-even license plate policy in the capital after recent reports of COVID-19 clusters emerging from public transportation.

Pondok Ranggon cemetery in East Jakarta is expected to run out of space for COVID-19 burials in October.

A renovation project that started in July will transform the historic Sarinah building in Central Jakarta.

As many as 54,194 people have been affected by a drought in Bogor, West Java, the Bogor Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD Bogor) has said.

A joint team of prosecutors arrested on Friday the former president director of city-owned transportation company PT Transjakarta, Donny Andy Sarmedi Saragih, who has been at large since 2019 after he was convicted of fraud.

Civil society groups argue that the police violated the suspects' right to a fair trial during the raid and the investigation.

East Jakarta’s Pondok Ranggon cemetery expects to run out of space for COVID-19 graves in October because of the recent increase in the number of burials.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has claimed that the administration in doing well in tackling COVID-19 in the capital city, despite a spike in new confirmed cases.

Some 14,000 people have been fined.

The lie-in-a-fake-coffin punishment is not an official punishment for health protocol violators, East Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) head Budhy Novian says.

The kitten’s head was stuck in the neck of the vessel.

Jakarta currently has 67 COVID-19 referral hospitals and 170 hospitals providing services for COVID-19 patients.

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.