As one of the 149 contract teachers affected by the policy, Imam was about to lose Rp 3 million (US$185) of his monthly salary for being a member of teaching staff at a state school in North Jakarta.

The Jakarta administration has promised to offer more long-term and fixed placements for nonpermanent teachers in the city, following recent backlash over the sudden dismissal of over 100 contract educators across different levels of education – from elementary to senior high schools – last week.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the Cililitan Wholesale Center (PGC) in East Jakarta lies an abandoned settlement known as Kampung Zombie.

While Jakarta continues to struggle in addressing perennial problems related to the limited green spaces in the city, its Thai counterpart has reached a milestone in adding more natural areas to Bangkok by bringing to life thousands of mini parks, a strategy that experts say can be adopted in the Indonesian capital.

Several neighborhoods in Jakarta were inundated over the weekend following heavy rain that hit the capital last week, with the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) forecasting more heavy rain to come in the following days.

Mayors and governors from around the world declared on Thursday their shared commitment to boost efforts to achieve the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as progress on the program lags.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, new grassroots sports clubs have been helping motivate Jakartans to engage in regular physical exercise in a bid to promote healthy lifestyles and foster a sense of community.

A recent poll shows that the majority of Jakartans is opposed to implementing a decade-old age limit policy for private vehicles that authorities revived after the President signed the DKJ Law on the city's future fate.

The "grand old party" is set to announce its gubernatorial tickets for Jakarta and West Java on Aug. 27, the opening day of candidate registration for the 2024 regional head elections.

The PKS says Golkar politician Ridwan Kamil has expressed interest in allying with the party for the regional head elections in Jakarta as well as West Java, though it plans to make a decision only after the results of an electability poll.

Aside from expanding the number of air quality monitoring stations, the city's environment agency has urged Jakartans to do their bit by using public transportation, avoiding open waste burning and making other environmentally conscious efforts to reduce the air pollution that has been choking Jakarta for months.

The lives of evicted Kampung Bayam residents who now live at low-cost apartment complex (Rusun) Nagrak in Cilincing, North Jakarta, have become more complex as they have to wake up at dawn to reach their respective schools or workplaces located close to their former neighborhood in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

Sohibul Iman served as PKS chairman from 2015 to 2020 and was elected to the House of Representatives for the 2009-2014 and 2014-2019 periods. He has also likely been elected to the body for the 2024-2029 period.

Acting Jakarta governor Heru Budi Hartono dismissed concerns on the deteriorating air quality in Jakarta, saying that air pollution is a common occurrence in various major cities across the world and stressing the government's anti-pollution measures such as cloud seeding and mist spraying.

Jakarta’s 497th anniversary on Saturday was marked by congestion on numerous thoroughfares, heavily crowded public transportation and persisting pollution as people across the city went out to join in the festivities.

As Jakarta counts its remaining days as Indonesia's capital city, residents express hope that the government's plan to move the capital to Nusantara could help reduce some of its urban burdens. But doubts linger on whether the move will end the city's perennial problems. 

Jakarta may be commemorating its final anniversary this month as the national capital, but for more than 30 million people, the city will continue to be the country’s economic heart and the bustling hub of the largest metropolitan area in Southeast Asia.

The city administration is marking Jakarta's 497th birthday with a special flat rate of Rp 1 for the BRT, MRT and LRT on June 22 and 23, while a separate discounted rate of 20 percent off applies to limited Whoosh services.

The issue of transportation should be one of the themes covered during a debate between candidates ahead of the Jakarta gubernatorial election, a transportation experts association has urged.

As political parties gear up for the regional head elections, Ganjar has said the PDI-P was open to considering backing external candidates in the Jakarta election, including his former presidential rival Anies, who could make a reelection bid for the city's governorship come November.

The city is set to release mosquitoes with Wolbachia in its latest measure to curb the spread of dengue fever, while the acting governor has dismissed the seriousness of relevant authorities about slapping fines on residents that do not comply with the relevant health rules.

With individualistic culture increasingly prevalent in cities globally, including in Jakarta, evicted former residents of Kampung Bayam in North Jakarta have chosen to stick to the nation’s spirit of gotong royong (mutual cooperation) amid the difficulties of living in temporary shelters.

Former Kampung Bayam residents who were evicted from their homes to make way for the development of the Jakarta International Stadium (JIS) in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, agreed to move to a new apartment complex that will be built by the city administration soon.

Recently, a joint team comprising members of the National Police, the military and the Jakarta Public Order Agency raided Kampung Susun Bayam to force the inhabitants to leave. They finally agreed to return to the temporary shelters on the condition that Furqon was released.

In a statement posted on a number of social media outlets, MRT Jakarta blamed the disruption on an incident at a construction site located inside the nearby Attorney General's Office (AGO) headquarters in Blok M, South Jakarta.

NasDem election campaign operation head Prananda Paloh, the son of party chairman Surya Paloh, said that the party leadership is now weighing its options on who to back in the Jakarta gubernatorial election, including the Budi Satrio-Raffi ticket.

The PKS is mulling over whether to back the former Jakarta governor for reelection in November's regional head elections.

The RDF plant is set to be built atop a 7.8-hectare site in Rorotan, North Jakarta. Once the facility is fully operational, it will be able to process 2,500 tonnes of waste per day.

The Jakarta administration is making another bid to crack down on the never-ending practice of informal parking attendants at convenience stores, but the underlying cause of the city’s high unemployment rate is adding complexity to the issue.

The KNKT's ongoing air accident investigation has found indications that pilot Capt. Pulung Darmawan had deliberately diverted from his flight path to attempt an emergency landing in the empty field where the plane's wreckage was recovered.