Jakarta – The number of street children in Jakarta has risen significantly during the past three years, from 3,724 in 2009, to 5,650 in 2010 and 7,315 in 2011, an official said Wednesda

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Arientha Primanita – The image and name of Nachrowi Ramli may have been splashed across billboards around the capital and newspaper advertisements over the past few months, but Jakarta

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Jakarta – Gridlock, which has become synonymous with life in Jakarta, has not only brought traffic to a standstill, but also taxi businesses, operators say.

Alvin Soedarjo – Jakarta's traffic chaos costs Indonesia billions of dollars a year in a depressing reminder of the gap between the country's ambitions for growth and its daily realitie

Zaky Pawas & Elisabeth Oktofani – Three-in-one. Truck bans. Electronic road pricing.

Around 1,000 people died in traffic accidents in the capital city of Jakarta and its environs in 2010, according to the Jakarta Metropolitan Police.

Jakarta – Jakartans have given a low job approval rating for Governor Fauzi Bowo and his deputy Prijanto, especially in their handling of Jakarta's perennial problems involving traffic

Elisabeth Oktofani & Dofa Fasila – A city official has admitted that there would be no end to the dredging of Jakarta's rivers as long as people keep dumping waste in them.

Dofa Fasila – As the Indonesian capital enters the ripe old age of 484 years, its governor stated the obvious on Tuesday: Jakarta has an acute shortage of public transport.

The Jakarta Administration has expressed concerns about the "alarming" condition of the waterways that crisscross the capital, most notably the Ciliwung River.

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Ronna Nirmala, Zaky Pawas & Arientha Primanita – They may have fought bigger battles when they were in uniform helping Indonesia gain independence from the Dutch or battle domestic

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – After two meetings in as many days, parties backing both sides of Jakarta's ban on trucks on sections of the inner-city toll road agreed to suspend the ban as o

Shirley Christie – The news will come as little surprise to those who frequent Jakarta's top hotels or have an eye on snapping up units in the latest luxury apartment complex, but the c

Arientha Primanita – The Indonesian government is aiming to give the estimated 8,000 street children in Jakarta at least Rp 1.4 million ($160) each by the end of the year as part of eff

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – Traffic congestion cost the city up to Rp 46 trillion (US$5.2 billion) last year, the Jakarta Transportation Agency says.

Ade Mardiyati – It is a few minutes past eight in the evening on Jalan Blora in Central Jakarta and nightlife revelers are starting to trickle onto the street, still wet and muddy from

Zubaidah Nazeer – Madam Wilus lives in a ramshackle dwelling by the railway track in Central Jakarta.

Central Jakarta Police late on Thursday night dispersed a group of people protesting the city's plan to build a block of apartments in Rawasari, Central Jakarta, on land that was suppos

Ulma Haryanto – It seems the city's crippling traffic can sometimes even lead the police to bend the rules.

Irawaty Wardany – The city administration may have imposed a ban on the construction of new convenience stores and minimarkets in Jakarta from 2006, but it seems that new establishments

Rachael Fulton – What do you do when a child's face appears at your car window begging for money?

Arientha Primanita & Obey Wibinnov Sianipar – Hipolitus is worried about his job, and for good reason: He's working on borrowed time.

Irawaty Wardhany, Jakarta – The city government is defending its environmental record following a report from the central government that named Jakarta the city with worst environmental

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – As roads in the city get more congested and the level of service of mass transportation deteriorates, Jakartans are turning to private vehicles in drove

Dofa Fasila & Zaky Pawas – Commuters in Greater Jakarta are abandoning public transportation in droves in favor of private vehicles, an official said on Thursday, while the city's a

Jakarta – A rights watchdog said on Sunday the Jakarta administration has opted to do less to improve the welfare of the city's low-income population and has instead decided to oppress

Dofa Fasila, Jakarta – Gooey, black oil. If just the thought disgusts you, the Jakarta administration might have found a way to make people respect road safety regulations.

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – A group of lawyers has mounted a bid to challenge the city's new antismoking decree, saying it violated human rights.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Life is hard for those who operate Jakarta's public transportation.

Arientha Primanita – Planning and environmental experts have lambasted the Jakarta administration over its draft of the city's spatial master plan, which they argue contains two unlawfu

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Arientha Primanita – As the city administration prepares to impose a progressive tax on vehicle ownership in a bid to boost revenue, it also hopes to highlight its benefits in solving J

Arientha Primanita – Following howls of protest from consumers and vendors alike, the Jakarta administration distanced itself on Friday from a plan to impose a 10 percent tax on food st

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – You know things are really bad when the military is called in, and that is exactly what the Jakarta administration did Monday when it established a new

Ade Mardiyati – For more than half a century, a neighborhood in Menteng, Central Jakarta, has become known as a haven for prostitutes.

Dofa Fasila, Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – Jakarta's city councilors are considering revising a traffic bylaw to restrict the use of private vehicles on certain days dependi

Arientha Primanita & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Jasuta stopped his empty Mikrolet minivan in front of the Tanah Abang market in Central Jakarta on Thursday, blocking traffic while he wai

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo finally apologized for Monday evening's monstrous traffic gridlock – but to a visiting foreign delegation instead of his consti

Cameron Bates, Ulma Haryanto & Kinanti Pinta Karana, Jakarta – Jakarta Globe readers and Facebook and Twitter followers have shared their stories from Monday, when heavy rains broug

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – In what is becoming an increasingly nightmarish routine, Jakarta was once again crippled as a torrential rainstorm pounded the city on Monday afternoon.

Arientha Primanita, Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Blame it on the rain?

Yanto Soegiarto & Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – Monday night's flooding and subsequent citywide traffic jam was a preview of Jakarta's future if no significant changes are done, busi

Jakarta – Jakarta's unprecedented traffic congestion sees millions of cars burning gas as they sit stationary, and millions of residents choking their lives away in plumes of thick poll

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo and Deputy Governor Priyanto's performance over their first three years in office has been rated mediocre by a local NGO.

Ulma Haryanto & Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Like the hundreds of thousands of other repeat flood victims in the capital, Andi and Sudarmati have no furniture on the ground floor o

Jakarta – Jakarta Police have predicted that about 12 million motor vehicles will burden the capital's roads by 2011.

Jakarta – In addition to traffic woes, Jakarta is under threat of soil degradation and rising sea surface levels, experts say.