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Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – This capital, which seems to drain the life out of so many Jakartans, is seen as a promised land by newcomers.

Arientha Primanita & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – As an investigation gets under way into why a 103-meter stretch of road in North Jakarta fell into the Japat River on Thursday, experts sa

Jakarta – With the Idul Fitri holiday now coming to a close, thousands of people have started to make their way from Central Java back to Jakarta early on Monday morning.

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Jakarta is heading toward "ecological suicide" if it doesn't stem overpopulation, an urban planning expert warned on Tuesday.

Sara Webb, Jonggol, Indonesia – A mere pinprick on the map of Java, Jonggol's cluster of tiny red-roofed houses set among banana groves and shimmering waterlogged rice fields may in yea

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Renewed notions of relocating the nation's capital from the chaos of Jakarta may have merits, but the difficulties of implementing such a plan would likely do

Jakarta – The capital city has entered an "age of extremity" where some families spend billions of rupiah to bury relatives in luxury graves, and others struggle to find the few thousan

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has called on officials to refrain from using police motorcades while the vast majority of commuters are immerse

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Sitting on a red plastic chair at a small, green Betawi People Communication Forum (Forkabi) guard post on Jl.

Report Aria Danaparamita – The doors to the airport open and the heat hits you in the face.

Ulma Haryanto – Humala Tambunan was feeling ambitious on Monday morning.

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta administration's insistence on continuing with its reclamation project off its northern coast is an insult to the nation's highest court, legal and nong

Arientha Primanita – The recent localized street flooding caused by unseasonal rains across Jakarta highlights the need to seriously improve the city's poor drainage system, an academic

Ulma Haryanto & Fidelis E Satriastanti – In defiance of a Supreme Court ruling, Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Wednesday that the city would proceed with a major sea reclamatio

Eny Wulandari, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration must work quickly to build a credible public transportation network if it is to curb the rising number of motorcycles in the capital,

Kinanti Pinta Karana – On the same day the nation's largest car and motorcycle dealer predicted record sales, a scientist warned that the only way Jakarta would solve its massive traffi

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta government on Friday played down recommendations made by the National Commission on Human Rights on the deadly April 14 riot in Tanjung Priok, saying th

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta governor and North Jakarta mayor must be held accountable for last month's riot in Koja that claimed four lives, the National Commission on Human Rights

Arientha Primanita – The public is in for some "shocking" revelations about the recent bloody clash at Tanjung Priok as the city's fact-finding team prepares to release damning evidence

Arientha Primanita – Bathing in the morning has always been a daily challenge for Holida, 35, a mother of three.

Arientha Primanita – The city administration should crack down on the illegal distribution of faulty gas cylinders feared to be the cause of recent explosions in the capital, consumer a

Nurfika Osman & Arientha Primanita – Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al Jufri has provoked the ire of commuters and officials alike after barreling down a restricted busway lane

Jakarta – Street thugs run a virtual monopoly of Jakarta's on-street parking spaces, taking the lion's share of fees paid by motorists and ruling over the city's parking division.

Zaky Pawas – The Indonesian Red Cross has exonerated the police of any inhumane treatment of residents in the April 14 Tanjung Priok riots, saying the authorities' conduct was by the bo

Arientha Primanita – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Thursday that he suspected provocateurs were primarily to blame for deadly clashes on April 14 in which more than 1,700 public o

Putri Prameshwari & Arientha Primanita – The TransJakarta busway is a complete failure when it comes to easing traffic jams and passengers are often the victims of pickpockets, form

Dimas Siregar – For years, the residents of Muara Baru, North Jakarta, have had to rely on vendors selling drinking water door to door at inflated prices.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo suspended the city's Public Order Agency head Harianto Badjoeri on Friday, while the probe into the riot in Koja, North Jakarta, w

Glenda Kwek, Jakarta – It has been the economic heartbeat of the world's fourth most populous country for almost 500 years, but Jakarta's days as Indonesia's capital could be numbered.

Camelia Pasandaran – Even as he formally opened a new section of Jakarta's Outer Ring Road on Monday, Vice President Boediono warned that a solution to the city's perpetual gridlock was

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto – The days of the pollution-belching, three-wheeled bemo may finally be numbered, the Jakarta city administration said on Wednesday.

Ulma Haryanto – It's thirsty work for residents in Muara Baru, North Jakarta, who on Sunday said they felt trapped between a city water operator reportedly able to provide them with reg

Arientha Primanita – Jakarta's gleaming skyscrapers and bustling malls are hiding a legion of unhappy residents, a researcher said on Tuesday, citing the results of a recently conducted

Ulma Haryanto – The days of demonstrators converging on the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle are numbered.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – In response to questions about Governor Fauzi Bowo's statement about limiting the use of the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle, the city administration expl

Camelia Pasandaran – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo is drawing intense criticism from rights activists, experts and even Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi for stopping a scheduled antigr

Ulma Haryanto – At least a quarter of Jakarta would be underwater by 2050 if current rates of development projects and groundwater harvesting continued unabated, a climate expert warned

Emmy Fitri – The residents of Kalisari in East Jakarta used to dread the annual rainy season not just because of the floods.

Emmy Fitri – Inextricable traffic jams, even on toll roads, barely breathable air, heavily contaminated water and dwindling open spaces – problems suffered daily by Jakarta residents –

Jakarta – On this day two years ago, Governor Fauzi Bowo and his running mate, retired army general Prijanto, were sworn into office after defeating rival Adang Daradjatun and his runni

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Two years into the job, Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo still has to work extra hard to make good on his campaign promises, a discussion concluded Monday.

Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – If you are easily upset or are considered passive in dealing with other people, then you might want to skip town, as experts denounce the city's stress levels as

Nurfika Osman – An embarrassing new survey by a consumer advocacy group reveals that 74 percent of officials working for the city administration smoke in their offices, a clear breach o

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration's efforts to implement a smoking ban on public transportation since 2005 seems to have gone up in smoke, as a recent survey by the I

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – The Tangerang municipality's crackdown on begging has made the intersection at Jl.

Tasa Nugraza Barley & Ade Mardiyati – Each year during Ramadan, beggars come to Jakarta to take advantage of the extra generosity of the city's Muslims during the fasting month.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Governor Fauzi Bowo said Friday that the administration should proceed with enforcing the 2007 Bylaw on Public Order because it had been passed by the City Cou

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – A new traffic law that legalizes motorcycle taxis (ojek) will add to the chaos on Jakarta's roads and undermine passenger safety, a transportation expert sa

Jakarta – Over a million Indonesians will lose their jobs in the global economic downturn and many will head to the capital, Jakarta, swelling the city's already overcrowded shanty town