Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has been the subject of public debate since the widespread flooding that claimed 16 lives hit the capital at the beginning of 2020.

A multi-vehicle collision on Jl. Raya Muchtar in front of Telaga Golf Housing in Depok, West Java, on Tuesday killed an online motorcycle taxi (ojek) driver and injured three other people.

Agnes Setia Oetama is used to ordering food through the GoFood feature on ride-hailing app Gojek. However, after placing an order on Jan. 7, she found she had lost Rp 9 million (U$656) from her bank account.

Two groups held rallies at the same time at City Hall in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, with one group comprising dozens of people rallying against Anies and the other group comprising dozens who defended the governor.

Based on a report released by the advocacy team — which asked Jakartans to email the losses they had incurred because of the massive flooding — the losses from 243 verified reports amounted to Rp 43.32 billion.

Jakarta is a concrete jungle with almost 90 percent of its area built over, leaving only 10 percent for green space, a leading cause of flooding in the capital. While the blame is often put on skyscrapers and business districts, residential areas are not entirely free from the problem.

Inside a small and quiet craft shop in Pluit, North Jakarta, 10 people work with oblique pens, pointed nibs and ink in a calligraphy course held by 30 year-old calligrapher Sri Ratna.

The Legal Aid Institute for the Press recorded 79 attacks against journalists in 2019, including doxxing and online threats.

The President is pushing the Jakarta administration and the public works ministry to accelerate the projects following the New Year's Day flooding in the capital.

As businesses suffer massive losses from the floods that struck the capital city over the New Year, some retailers have asked for compensation from the Jakarta administration

By Saturday, the agency had received visits from 1,263 animals, including 206 dogs, 811 cats, 11 weasels, five monkeys, and one rabbit. 

Head of the Disaster-Risk Reduction Technology Center at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Nur Hidayat, said the road damage was probably caused by local factors, not the floods that happened earlier this month.

The joint venture company will integrate Transjakarta buses, the MRT, Jakarta LRT, Greater Jakarta LRT and Commuter Line services.

The crackdown followed reports of stem cell injections that had purportedly taken place at the clinic without an official permit.

Alvon Kurnia Palma, one of the lawyers of the 2020 Jakarta Class Action Lawsuit Advocacy Team, who has been gathering evidence for the legal action, told The Jakarta Post that as of Thursday, they had received 600 reports via email and had input 243 reports into their document. 

Retailers in Greater Jakarta are estimated to have lost more than Rp 1 trillion (US$71.91 million) as shops had to cease operations on account of severe flooding since New Year’s Eve, according to the Indonesian Retailers Association.

The Depok administration reacts to the Reynhard Sinaga case.

South Tangerang is moving up from simply recycling its trash to turning it into a source of energy, solving two problems at the same time: The lack of space to dump waste and the need for electricity by its 1.8 million residents.  

The Jakarta administration seeks to rebuild the capital city’s reputation for safety to revitalize its tourism amid a downturn of foreign tourists visiting in the past few months.

In anticipation of possible floods following a warning about heavy downpours in Greater Jakarta until Jan. 12, city administrations in Greater Jakarta area have been preparing measures, from directly warning residents to fixing embankments.

PT Jakarta Utilitas Propertindo (JUP), a subsidiary of city-owned developer Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro), plans to build a three-story building for the private Bina Tunas Bangsa (BTB) school on the 3,999-square-meter lot, which Jakpro claims to legally own.

A restoration campaigner for the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), Rehwinda Naibaho, raised concerns that with the current trend, Jakarta may face a worsening environmental crisis in 2020.

The planned auction aims to boost Greater Jakarta's transit passenger population.

While the new pin to identify priority passengers has been generally welcomed, some have pointed out that education was needed to improve passenger behavior.

People have been advised to photocopy important documents or take pictures of them as a means of backup. 

Members of Aku Badut Indonesia have visited several flood evacuation shelters in South Jakarta to entertain flood victims.

After flooding subsided, many car owners found their vehicles far from their neighborhoods. 

The BMKG's analysis of atmospheric dynamics indicates that monsoon activity remains high, with winds exhibiting convergence patterns from the north of Banten to Nusa Tenggara.

"Thorough measures and multi-stakeholder partnerships between ministries and officials in Jakarta, Banten and West Java are necessary to solve flood problems in the capital city," urbanists say.

The capital is finally among the regions in the country that have banned single-use plastic bags, after other cities such as South Kalimantan’s Banjarmasin, East Kalimantan’s Balikpapan and Bali’s Denpasar enacted similar policies.