Eva C. Komandjaja, Jakarta – Since its launch on January 15, city residents have warmed to the busway as shown by the increasing number of passengers over the last three months.

Jakarta – Construction of what is billed as the world's tallest tower began in the Indonesian capital yesterday.

Bambang Nurbianto and Evi Mariani, Jakarta – At least 25 families of 50 evicted fishermen in Ancol Timur survived on their boats on Sunday after the North Jakarta municipality demolishe

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have criticized Governor Sutiyoso administration's policies on eviction and the environmental and for delaying imp

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Playing down public criticism and without the knowledge of its partner in the project, the Jakarta Public Works Agency will start widening sections of Jl.

Jakarta – Efforts in Indonesia to ease chronic traffic jams in the teeming capital Jakarta are boosting one of the city's more curious professions – car jockeys.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Students, parents and teachers of the SMPN 56 state junior high school opposing a controversial property deal sought protection from the National Commission on H

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – In funeral services, preachers often say, "May he rest in peace". But you can't take that on face value if you are a Jakarta resident.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Recent floods in Jakarta that claimed six lives should serve as a warning for the city administration to build the East Flood Canal as quickly as possible.

Thousands of Jakarta residents have been forced to flee their homes by flood waters as deep as two metres, officials in the Indonesian capital said.

Local officials, supposedly the frontline of the Jakarta administration's community fix for flooded areas, have done little to help inundated residents, often not even bothering to show

Juli Hantoro, Edy Can, Multazam – A Jakarta court has ordered the Jakarta local government to postpone its plan to hike drinking water rates. A victory for the residents?

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – In the two weeks of full operation, the busway has seen an increase in passengers each day, but their total number is only a third of the 60,000 commuters that p

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – As if the contrast between high-rise buildings and riverbank slums were not enough to indicate the social gap among Jakartans, different kinds of movie theater a

Damar Harsanto and Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Taxpayers should fight the three-in-one traffic policy if they believed it was disadvantaging them, community activists said on Thursday.

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – A group of bogus police detectives are raiding unwary Jakartans' homes and searching them on the street, in a spate of extortions and robberies, police say.

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Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Twenty-four fish farmers in Cilincing subdistrict, North Jakarta, demanded on Wednesday that the city administration provide Rp 340 million (US$40,476) in c

Evi Mariani and Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – A total of 780 motorists were ticketed for violating the new three-in-one traffic policy on the first day of its implementation on Monday.

Starting on Monday, the police will begin enforcing the extended three-in-one traffic policy, with offenders facing sentences of up to a month in jail and a fine of Rp 1 million (US$119

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – After four months of taking refuge at the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) compound, more than 200 evictees say they have nowhere else to go

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang Water utility customers in Tangerang regency are irate over skyrocketing bills that are at least 300 percent higher than the bills they received in December.

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Four days after asking bus drivers to make the TransJakarta Busway project launch a perfect one, Governor Sutiyoso was shocked to discover 30 had gone on strik

Marilin, Depok – Residents of Curug subdistrict, Cimanggis district, Depok, have complained about pollution in the nearby Rawa Kalong pond that killed thousands of their fish last Octob

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Jakarta – Dozens of members of several associations staged a protest outside the House of Representatives compound over the recent attack on a temple on Jl.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Amid criticism from various parties, the Jakarta administration still plans to go ahead with its eviction program which is expected to affect at least 8,500

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Residents of Pinang Ranti, East Jakarta, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to the Jakarta State Administrative Court against an eviction plan following previous lawsuits

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Squatters facing eviction from their homes on Jl.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The Bus Rapid Transit system, or busway, has attracted strong opposition from transportation experts and observers since it was first introduced by the Jaka

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – After much debate and public criticism since November over a 30 percent tap water rate hike proposed by the city administration, councillors have decided th

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – More than 2,500 families will be evicted from their houses along Jl.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The tryout of the new extended three-in-one traffic policy to support the Jakarta busway project is set to start on Wednesday despite strong objections from Jaka

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – A hearing on evictions between Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso and House of Representatives Commission II for home affairs turned into a farce on Thursday as commission

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The idea was to ease traffic along Jakarta's busiest streets by encouraging people to abandon their cars, but a new bus system due to start running next month i

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Hundreds of evicted fishermen and their families living along the banks of the Muara Angke river in North Jakarta will again be forced to move, as the Jakarta adm

Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – In less than two months, dozens of squatters living under a section of Pluit-Cawang overpass toll road in North Jakarta will not only lose their makeshift tents

Robert Go, Jakarta – Jakarta governor Sutiyoso is feeling the heat again, this time for evicting tens of thousands of squatters from government or privately owned land around the capita

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – The evictions of the city's poorest inhabitants continued on the second day of Ramadhan, despite promises from Governor Sutiyoso to stop the practices during the

Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Research suggests that 66.3 percent of people living in the city have yet to participate in political activities, especially those concerned with policy-making.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) will withdraw its support of Governor Sutiyoso if he continues to conduct wide-scale evictions in the city.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The city has the money and its share of poor people, but the poor do not get to enjoy the money.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Along the banks of Jakarta's dirty Muara Angke River, several thousand families are preparing for their first-ever appearance on television.

Jakarta – Dozens of vendors from the Senayan Vendors Association (HPSJ) staged a protest at the City Council on Friday, demanding that the management of the Bung Karno Sports Complex ha

Jakarta – South Jakarta public order officers bulldozed on Thursday three houses on Jl. T.B.

Evi Mariani and Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The intensive evictions of illegal squatters across the capital is apparently related to city budget spending in the last semester by the re

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Hundreds of fishermen who live along the banks of the Muara Angke River in North Jakarta did not go out to sea on Tuesday, instead staying at home to wait for the

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Hundreds of fishermen living on the banks of the Muara Angke River in Pluit, North Jakarta, rejected on Monday an offer from the North Jakarta administration to c

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Hundreds of fishermen living on the banks of Angke River in North Jakarta have decided to stay put despite an eviction notice from the North Jakarta administratio

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – As talks with city administration officials on violent evictions have become futile, three human rights commissions called on Thursday for a moratoriu