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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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The head of Cisarua subdistrict in the Bogor highlands has backed a plan by Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo to buy up and destroy all the holiday villas illegally built in the Puncak water

Jakarta – The reshuffling of high-ranking officials in the Jakarta administration was seen as shock therapy for the bureaucracy which, according to Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, is in

Jakarta saw another bout of heavy rains and attendant flooding on Wednesday afternoon, with reports of multiple main thoroughfares rendered impassable, downed trees and the capital's Ho

Wahyu Sudoyo – The recent floods in Jakarta and surrounding areas are estimated to have caused Rp 32 trillion ($3.3 billion) in losses.

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Jakarta – Urban planners are urging the central government and the Jakarta administration to leave behind their old-fashioned ways to counter the capital's endemic flooding problem and

Chris Brummitt, Jakarta, Indonesia – Cheering crowds greeted the new leader of this Asian megacity as he toured its flooded business district atop a handcart typically used to haul garb

ID/Grace Dwitya Amianti, Gita Rossiana & Tito Summa Siahaan – Companies and consumers have started to calculate damages and losses from the widespread floods that hit Jakarta last w

Jakarta – In response to the current inundation affecting parts of Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's actions in recent days have prompted many to speculate that he is compet

A noted political scientist has thrown his weight behind Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo over the motives of political parties' assistance to flood victims, saying that helping with ulteri

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – More than 18,000 people have been displaced by the floods that have struck Jakarta. Some report facing hunger, dysentery and poor sanitation.