Corry Elyda and Dewanti Wardhani, Jakarta – Experts and activists from various urban organizations and communities sent postcards to Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnam

Jakarta – In response to the increasing levels of sexual harassment on public transportation, city-owned bus operator PT Transportasi Jakarta (Transjakarta) is set to operate special bu

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Activists and low-income residents have criticized Deputy Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama for having no plan to include the public's participation in creat

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Experts have strongly objected to a decision made by the city administration to proceed with the long-stalled and controversial construction of six inner-city tol

Jakarta – In spite of Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's plans to equip the city's Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers with firearms for protection, the Jakart

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Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The city government plans to do away with civil servants' official cars in favor of a monthly transportation stipend as part of a drive to get more offic

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Corry Elyda, Jakarta – During the 20 months of their tenure, acting Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and non-active governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo have made many breakthrou

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Acting Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, never one to shy from confrontation, says he will equip Jakarta's public order officers, or Satpol PP, with stun

Erwida Maulia – To Tifa Asrianti, the polka-dot fabric mask she carries in her bag is multifunctional.

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Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – From the homeless to street vendors trying to eke out a living, Jakarta's pedestrians have long learned to share their sidewalks, and with the increasi

Deti Mega Purnama & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has announced the city of Jakarta and Governor Joko Widodo as the most progressive pr

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Twenty-six high-ranking bureaucrats in the Jakarta administration were removed from office and replaced on Wednesday as part of a sweeping re

Deti Mega & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – After several supposedly new buses purchased for use on the TransJakarta Busway and the Integrated City Busway (BKTB) were proven to be u

Edi Hardum, Jakarta – Unrelenting rains in Jakarta, which have been continuing for weeks since the beginning of January, have caused businesses in the capital to lose as much as Rp 300

Jakarta, Sita W. Dewi – With Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's arguably unique leadership style, the city administration has seen changes in bureaucracy like never before.

Jakarta's deputy governor has found himself in hot water following his decision to ignore a newly implemented regulation for local government workers to commute to work using public tra

Lenny Tristia Tambun & SP/Fana FS Putra – A gubernatorial instruction asking Jakarta municipal officials to use public transit on Fridays was finalized by Jakarta Governor Joko Wido

Edi Hardum – Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto has lauded an ongoing campaign to demolish holiday homes built in no-development zones, an initiative that has long been called for but

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Total gridlock will occur next year as various construction projects will be carried out, an expert says.

Muhammad Al Azhari – Jakarta will push for policies and efforts to discourage people from using private vehicles next year, Governor Joko Widodo said in an interview on Monday.

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Jakarta – Despite strong opposition from residents, the destruction of illegal dwellings in Taman Burung Village, Pluit, North Jakarta, went on as planned yesterday.

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The City Council on Wednesday endorsed the Spatial Zoning Bylaw, which, to some extent, limits the Jakarta governor from making changes to land-use purposes.

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Activists are up in arms over the Jakarta administration's plan to enforce a little-known bylaw banning beggars, buskers and bards in the Indonesian capital, calling the law, which make

Novy Lumanauw – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought on Thursday to reinforce the merit of his administration's policy to boost sales of low-cost green cars in Indonesia in respons

Hotman Siregar – The Jakarta Transportation Agency's ongoing war on illegal parking accelerated on Wednesday as parking officers announced the latest weapon aimed at punishing parking s

Hotman Siregar & Deti Mega Purnamasari – With hordes of cheap, new cars and motorcycles continuing to hit the city's streets, and the two rail-based public transit networks not expe

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Lenny Tristia Tambun – The past few months have seen the Jakarta administration widen some footpaths in the city's business district, and install a number of park benches beside the roa

Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – On the congested streets of Indonesia's capital, chained monkeys are a surreal sideshow.

Camelia Pasandaran – The National Commission on Violence Against Women said on Monday that the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) should stop using religion to try to force Lenteng Agung war

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SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo did not say a word to the employee caught playing video games during a surprise visit to the offices of the city's small-and-medi

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – One year after Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama assumed the reins of the Jakarta administration, the public has a good idea of their dis

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Fikri Zaki Muhammadi and Corry Elyda, Jakarta – During the 2012 Jakarta gubernatorial election campaign, then governor candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his running mate Basuki "Ahok"

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Fana FS Putra – Public ignorance and poor urban planning are among the factors that have been blamed for the 712 blazes Jakarta's fire department has recorded

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Fana FS Putra – The Jakarta administration is being urged to implement a moratorium on private vehicle sales and road construction to prevent the city from su

Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi on Tuesday completed a humiliating climbdown from comments made last week in which he said that an urban ward chief should be transferred on account

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) condemned on Saturday Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi's suggestion that the city administration should bow to the demands of har

SP/Hotman Siregar – Deputy Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama condemned Home Affairs minister Gamawan Fauzi's suggestion that the city administration should transfer a Christian wa

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – New shopping malls will continue to open in Jakarta in the future because a planned moratorium does not annul permits for new malls issued by the previous adminis

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Only by boosting economic opportunities outside Jakarta can the annual influx of people into the capital following Idul Fitri celebrations be

Jakarta – The Indonesian Labor Institute has announced its estimates that approximately a million newcomers, most of them are unskilled workers, will seek work in the capital after the

Hotman Siregar – A fatal MetroMini bus accident on Tuesday has led to calls for the Jakarta city administration to take over the long-running public transportation operator.

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