The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have hit Jakartans hard, with many struggling to pay their rent and facing threats from online loan sharks, several NGOs have reported.

As most businesses in Greater Jakarta are facing a major downturn during the COVID-19 crisis, small vegetable vendors and tukang sayur (mobile vegetable sellers), who typically operate in residential areas, have seen more customers buying their products.

Jakarta officials have scoured the city for potential isolation houses to anticipate a lack of facilities, as the number of cases still climbs in the capital despite weak government claims of a leveling off in the rate of COVID-19 infections.

Bekasi has continued to record more COVID-19 cases in the past few weeks, prompting the administration to further extend restrictions.

The Jakarta administration will revoke the business licenses of at least 200 companies that have flouted the implementation of large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in the capital.

The Jakarta administration is preparing a regulation to limit the number of people entering the capital city, the country’s COVID-19 epicenter, after the Ramadan and Idul Fitri holiday season.

Andhini Miranda, an initiator of the Zero Waste Indonesia movement, said people could use cloth face masks instead of single-use masks, wash their hands frequently with soap instead of wearing gloves and use cloths instead of paper towels to wipe down surfaces with disinfectant

MRT Jakarta, the operator of the country’s first subway service, plans to commence construction of a 2.8 km underground tunnel from Bundaran HI to the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta in June, known as stage CP201. The plan was pushed back from March and was expected to be completed by December 2024.

The Jakarta Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) recorded an increase in water level at the Pasar Ikan floodgate in North Jakarta to 210 centimeters, raising the standby alert status early on Thursday.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has said there are signs the rate of COVID-19 infection is slowing in the capital, but urged all residents to remain vigilant.

The project, the first of its kind in the capital, would be fully funded and sustained by NGOs, non-profit organizations and the community.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Monday that Jakarta, the COVID-19 epicenter in the country, had experienced a rapid and significant slowdown in new cases.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil claimed the partial lockdown had helped reduce the infection rate in Bogor and Depok by 38.5 percent. 

The Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) relocated 92 homeless people, who were found on the streets in Central Jakarta and South Jakarta on Friday and Saturday, to the Karet Tengsin GOR in Tanah Abang.

The large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) imposed in Greater Jakarta are set to be extended and expanded, leaders of the capital city’s satellite cities have said, as the lack of legal certainty and the continued spread of COVID-19 have underlined the policy’s ineffectiveness in curbing the disease.

Jakarta’s satellite cities have imposed a partial lockdown since April 15, which will end on Tuesday.

A video of the assault, which shows the teenagers destroy Aselih's fence and throw firecrackers at his house, went viral on social media.

The Jakarta administration was the first in the country to impose 14-day PSBB measures on April 10.

The Jakarta administration is set to repurpose all city-owned sports halls across the capital into temporary homeless shelters for those who have lost their jobs and homes as a result of COVID-19.

Fines will be imposed starting May 8.

As most Jakartans are staying at home during the COVID-19 epidemic, minimarkets have become new targets of crime, the Jakarta Police have said.

State-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga is awaiting the Public Works and Housing Ministry's decision before finally closing off the Jakarta-Cikampek II elevated toll road.

The survey further revealed that 35.1 percent of the participants, surveyed between April 14 and 19 by phone, were going about their normal activities during the outbreak.  

The large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), initially slated to end on Thursday, have been extended until May 22.

Some communities in Jakarta have found ways to allay COVID-19 stigma and help neighbors in need.

A number of journalists and media professionals in Jakarta have been left jobless with little to no financial support.

Netizens have reported that Mount Gede Pangrango and Mount Salak, both in West Java, are visible from Jakarta weeks after calls for people to stay at home.

Two large labor groups, the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) and the Indonesian Labor Workers Assembly (MPBI) have announced their plan to hold massive protests in front of the House and the Office of the Coordinating Economic Minister on April 30, the day before May Day, which falls on May 1.

BPTJ head Polana B. Pramesti said that Jakarta in particular had initiated various restrictions including transportation restrictions in March, when a significant decline in the number of mass public transportation users had begun.

The Bethel Indonesia School of Theology in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, has been designated a “red zone” following mounting reports of COVID-19 cases in its vicinity.