Heru unveiled the plan following his meeting with State-owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir who pledged to provide assistance for the project, which overall will give a new look to Jakarta's best-known landmark.

Dramatic footage obtained by AFP showed a thick column of grey smoke engulfing the dome while the flames destroyed the lower parts of the Jakarta Islamic Centre Grand Mosque on Wednesday.

Former Jakarta administrator-turned-State Palace insider Heru Budi Hartono officially assumed his role as the capital’s caretaker governor on Monday, beginning a lengthy term that could run into 2024.

Anies Baswedan stepped down from his position as Jakarta governor on Sunday, becoming the first leader of the city in 10 years to complete a full five-year term in office.

Days after receiving the NasDem Party’s backing for the 2024 presidential race, outgoing Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan is facing renewed criticism over his handling of the city’s perennial flooding problem, including from the central government and the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

President Joko “Jokowi" Widodo has named one of his inner circle as interim Jakarta governor who will start to work next week: his own secretary Heru Budi Hartono.

"I have told Pak Heru that the primary problem in Jakarta is flooding and traffic jams, and there needs to be significant progress on that," Jokowi said on Monday as quoted by Antara.

Local police are combing through a school complex in Cilandak, South Jakarta in search of casualties, after the stage wall of a school collapsed due to flooding, killing three schoolchildren.

The Greater Jakarta metropolitan region houses around 30 million people and is regularly hit by floods in the rainy season.

Heavy rains and flooding also hit other parts of the country, with more rain forecast across the archipelago for the rest of the week.

Amidst the fuel price-hike on Sept. 3, bus and MRT operators in Jakarta have seen a minor uptick in passenger numbers. 

The development of ITF Sunter waste-to-energy incinerator has long been under scrutiny by environmentalists, who have warned of possible health hazards, including toxic fumes released by the facility.

A year after a court found President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and top-ranking officials in central and local administrations guilty of negligence for failing to tackle chronic air pollution in Jakarta, activists say there has been little in the way of actual implementation of the ruling.

Jakarta-owned bus operator Transjakarta resumed 24-hour bus services on Monday, ending a curtailed timetable that had prevailed under pandemic restrictions.

The City Council has submitted to the Home Ministry its three top picks for replacing outgoing governor Anies Baswedan, starting a process in which it actually has a say following an ombudsman investigation into public disgruntlement with earlier regional appointments this year.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued thunderstorm warnings for this week, following days of torrential downpours that have flooded a number of neighborhoods in Greater Jakarta.

The newly revamped Kota Tua area in West Jakarta offers a glimpse at the future, with pedestrian-friendly infrastructure offering a lull in the fast-paced, noisy and traffic-filled city.

Tridi Oasis Group, which employs 120 people, has recycled more than 250 million bottles since it was founded six years ago.

Anies Baswedan is hoping to leave a legacy of inclusivity in the development of Jakarta as he looks back on his five years of governing in the nation’s capital.

That's the hope of Jakarta's light rapid transit operator, which has turned a train and station into the set of a bloody zombie apocalypse -- with real passengers invited to the show.

Jakarta's annual Flona Festival has been revived after the COVID-19 pandemic stopped crowd-pulling events in their tracks. However, with mobility curbs lifted, the festival looks to benefit from the houseplant boom.

Billed the first export case of a Chinese bullet train system, the project to connect the Indonesian capital and the West Java provincial capital of Bandung was about 80 percent completed in late August and commercial operations are expected to start in June next year.

Jakarta has seen an almost tenfold rise in the number of gender-based violence cases over the past five years, Jakarta Health Agency head Widyastuti said on the margins of the U20 Mayor's Summit.

Jakarta Police have arrested several officers from Penjaringan precinct in North Jakarta for abuse of authority. The police, however, did not explain the suspected violations.

The students were waiting at the bus stop after class when the truck veered toward them and crashed into two motorcycles and toppled a concrete communications tower, traffic policeman Latif Usman said.

Bekasi Police say at least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured, the majority schoolchildren, when a flatbed truck plowed through a bus stop outside an elementary school on Wednesday morning.

Jakartans — especially those living in areas unreached by the city’s pipe network — are still struggling to access clean potable water as scientists predict that climate change will disrupt water balance and a harsher El Niño can potentially spell problems for the city’s water resources.

The National Police have named former internal affairs chief Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo’s wife Putri Candrawathi as a suspect in the premeditated murder of her own aide-de-camp, Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.

Environmentalists have cast doubt over the recent statement from Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria that relocating the capital city to East Kalimantan will help prevent Jakarta from sinking.

A new integrated fare scheme for Transjakarta buses and the MRT and LRT trains has brought some improvements to the capital’s public transportation system but remains plagued by issues, users have said.