Jakarta – The police, in cooperation with local informal figures, raided a number of hotels in West Jakarta at dawn on Sunday and netted 35 unmarried pairs of youths.

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Jakarta – Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's plan to hire military and police personnel to maintain security and public order in the city has drawn strong criticism from the public.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Bambang "Ho" Mulyono has the languid sexiness of Bob Marley – waist-length dreads, a T-shirt that says something unintelligibly hippy-dippy and a battered guitar plastere

Charlotte Greenfield, Jakarta – Millions of Jakarta commuters will have to struggle through the world's most congested traffic for almost another decade, authorities believe, and they may have to w

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Anti-corruption activists have said the recent budget spat between Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and the City Council should provide both with a lesson on

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Jakarta – Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama says he likes the idea of banning any political activities on the weekly car-free day in parts of Jakarta.

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Lenny Tristia Tambun & Carlos Paath Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council launched a formal investigation against Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Wednesday, in a move that could result in his i

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says it has found at least 454 irregularities in the 2014 budget for the Jakarta Education Agency, estimating that markups were respons

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Lenny Tristia Tambun & Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama of Jakarta on Tuesday revealed more irregularities inside the city's budget proposal, which has been revi

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Hari Baskoro, 39, said he was on a mission when attending Car Free Day on Jl. Sudirman and Jl. MH Thamrin on Sunday morning.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Deti Mega Purnamasari & Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The National Democratic (NasDem) Party on Monday retracted its support for a legislative inquiry that could lead to impeach

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Ezra Sihite & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Indonesia's antigraft commission has vowed to follow up on a report by Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alleging budg

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council on Thursday unanimously decided to launch an inquiry against the capital's governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, for

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Jakarta – Widespread flooding in the capital city has displaced 5,986 residents in 307 neighborhoods located in 97 subdistricts in the capital city.

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Rangga Prakoso & Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Scenes of apocalyptic inundation that paralyzed much of Jakarta on Monday could play out again over the next three weeks, with

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The capital's police force has promised to crack down on traffic officers taking bribes from road users.

SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Jakarta has been named the city with the worst traffic congestion in the world, according to a new study, while Surabaya – Indonesia's second-biggest city – has

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit ranking Jakarta bottom of a list of 50 global cities has been greeted with a degree of disbelief by the capital's police chie

Sita W. Dewi and Sumnima Dewan, Jakarta – Rostiana, 46, lost everything when the city administration demolished her house last December.

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Police in Jakarta rounded up more than 300 people over the weekend in their latest wave of enforcement against street crime and other activities seen as public order dis

Bayu Marhaenjati & Priska Sari Pratiwi, Jakarta – Over 600 people identified by police as "thugs" were arrested on Saturday night in a Jakarta-wide operation against street crime.

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The Rp 12 billion Manggarai bus terminal in South Jakarta, hailed by then governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as a model for future terminals in the city, has instead proved to be

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Jakarta – The West Jakarta Social Affairs Agency raided at least 30 street singers donning punk attire, locally known as punkers, during an operation held over the weekend.

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Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The city administration evicted almost 14,000 people from their homes last year and put an end to the businesses of more than 2,000 street vendors, paving the way for river

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Recent research conducted by the Jakarta Residents Forum (Fakta) has revealed that 19 out of 26 evictions undertaken in 2014 in Jakarta by the city administrati

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Bill Tarrant, Jakarta – The Ciliwung River flows from a volcano south of the Indonesian capital, through the heart of one of the world's most densely populated cities and almost into Ja

Hotman Siregar & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has enlisted the help of an antigraft watchdog to scrutinize the wealth and business dealing

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Jakarta – Despite violent protests by hard-line Islamic vigilante groups and threats of a legislative boycott by rival politicians, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Wednesday was officially in

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Newly sworn in Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama signed on Wednesday a gubernatorial decree for the monthly minimum wage to rise by 12.5 percent to R

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Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Following a deadlock between workers and employers on Thursday, the city administration looks set to raise the minimum wage by 12.5 percent to Rp 2.7 million (US$

Jakarta – A hard-won victory in the protracted process to get Jakarta Acting Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama inaugurated as governor proper appeared short-lived on Friday, as political

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – A survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in cooperation with online pollster YouGov says Jakarta has the fifth-most dangerous transportation system fo

Jakarta – A recent survey has revealed that Jakarta's public transportation is among the top five in the list of the world's most dangerous public transportations for women.

Jakarta – Jakarta and Bogor topped a list issued by the Transportation Ministry of Indonesian cities with the worst traffic conditions, according to media.

Jakarta – Backing deputy chief Brig. Gen.

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Jakarta – Jakarta has been named the worst city in Indonesia by the Center for Urban Design Studies (PSUD), citing poor urban development and the lack of visual beauty.

Raja H. Panggabean, Jakarta – Piyan is an illegal parking attendant outside the ITC Roxy Mas shopping center in West Jakarta.

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