Anies added that COVID-19 patients with mild or no symptoms would no longer be allowed to self-isolate at home and would have to be quarantined in government facilities starting on Monday.

Jakarta administration secretary Saefullah and West Jakarta Mayor Uus Kuswanto have tested positive for COVID-19, officials reported on Saturday.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has said that the central government supports his decision to reimpose full large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in the capital, despite several Cabinet members criticizing the move in the past few days.

As the number of confirmed cases and fatalities from COVID-19 continues to rise, the government has prepared an apartment tower from the former Kemayoran athletes village – now an emergency hospital for infected patients in Central Jakarta – to house asymptomatic coronavirus patients for isolation, a top official said on Saturday.

Large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) will be back in place on Monday and presumably be lifted on Sept. 28.

The malls’ daily needs retailers may be allowed to stay open, and restaurants may be permitted to provide delivery services only.

Leaders of Jakarta's satellite cities are still undecided on whether they should follow the capital city in reimposing stricter COVID-19 restrictions that will take effect on Monday.

The man claimed to have killed Yodi to scare off a friend of the editor, with whom he was involved in a feud.

Three weeks would cover the virus’ 14-day incubation period and an extra transitional week to completely curb transmission, IDI said.

“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.