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

Leo Wahyudi S. – Forced evictions conducted by the city administration usually end in clashes between public order officers and the "illegal" occupants.

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – More than 1,000 people became homeless in a forced eviction on Thursday at a 15-hectare plot of land in Tanjung Duren Selatan subdistrict, West Jakarta.

Bambang Nurbianto and Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Thousands of more families will soon be left homeless as the Jakarta Administration is set to continue its policy of evicting sq

Jakarta – Only 20 percent of the some 450,000 daily commuter train passengers in the Greater Jakarta area buy tickets while the rest either bribe conductors on board or do not pay at al

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has set up a team to investigate a string of evictions in the city, which many claim have violated people's basic rights,

Bambang Nurbianto and Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Most of the evicted people who had been living on disputed land at Kampung Baru, Cengkareng Timur, in West Jakarta, insisted that they would

Jakarta – Dozens of evicted local people who had been living on disputed land at Kampung Baru, Cengkareng Timur in West Jakarta, filed a complaint on Thursday with the National Commissi

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Camping on the rubble of their old houses on Jl.

Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – "When kancil is released, common people like me will suffer the most," said Sukim, 35, a Bajaj (three-wheeled motorized vehicle) driver in Rawamangun, East Jakart

Jakarta – The water table in Jakarta has dropped by two meters due to the severe drought in Java this year, threatening water supplies to nearly half of Jakarta's 8.6 million population

Leo Wahyudi S – Governor Sutiyoso's idea to plate the Arjuna Wijaya statue in bronze, along with his plans to beautify the city – by placing statues of heroes on streets named after the

Jakarta – Hundreds of squatters staged a rally in front of West Jakarta Mayoralty on Monday, protesting Mayor Sarimun Hadisaputra for issuing an eviction order against them.

Leo Wahyudi S.

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – The involvement of public order officers, policemen and military officers in the eviction of around 10,000 illegal occupants of private-owned land at

Jakarta – Police fired warning shots and tear gas yesterday to disperse about 500 slum dwellers protesting against an attempt to evict them from their Jakarta settlement.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Tight security is still in place at former president Soeharto's residence on Jl.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Former president Soeharto may have lost power but he is still important enough for Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso to be willing to visit him for a pair of his fo

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The city administration is doing almost nothing to prevent Jakarta's rivers from becoming industrial and household dump sites.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Some 300 bajaj (three-wheeled motorized vehicles) were parked at the City Council compound on Wednesday in a noisy and smoky protest against the administrat

Jakarta – Thousands of dirty and noisy motorised rickshaws in Indonesia's capital may soon go the same way as their pedal-powered predecessors – rounded up and dumped into the Java Sea.

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Increasing social pressure in Jakarta is believed to be the main factor in people committing suicide, experts say, in response to a tripling in the number of s

The party is over but at least we have been left with some great lessons.

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – The ongoing military operation to crush the rebel Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Aceh has put Acehnese living outside the war-torn province, Jakarta in p

Zakki Hakim and Fifi Yulianti, Jakarta – City officials, accompanied by police and security personnel, Thursday barged into homes in a densely populated Jakarta residential neighborhood

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – For many Jakartans, being choked by highly polluted air while sitting in a seemingly endless traffic jam is daily occurrence and irritant.

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – People living in Jakarta will be jailed for up to three months without trial and fined during a massive city administration crackdown on illegal resid

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Public bus drivers are forced to pay, on average, up to Rp 40,000 for legal and illegal fees each day, a factor that has caused their services and safety to

Tangerang – Hundreds of motorcycle taxi (ojek) drivers blocked Jl.

Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – The toll road operators' plan to increase tolls by about 25 percent at the end of the month has upset local motorists, especially as many have said the companies

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The illegal sales of the city administration's nine-hectare site in the subdistrict of Tebet Barat, South Jakarta, to private companies was another example

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Life for Jakartans will get tougher starting this month as they face a 40 percent increase in water charges and a 20 percent increase in bus fares.

Robert Go, Jakarta – The police force is under fire again, this time for allegedly mishandling a dispute between one of Indonesia's richest men and the country's most respected weekly n

Marco Kusumawijaya, Jakarta – Many Jakartans have just seen the movie The Gangs of New York.

Robert Go, Jakarta – The majority of Jakarta's 151 traditional markets are firetraps and could suffer the same ill fate as the Tanah Abang textile centre, much of which went up in flame

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – They crept up around Christmas. Signs on bridges told of their arrival. Long strips of road were painted red as a warning. Bus lanes had arrived in Jakarta.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Urban activists criticized the city administration's plan to evict Angke river squatters in North and West Jakarta, warning that it could spark social unres

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – The 2003 city budget, which amounts to Rp 10.98 trillion, will better serve the city administration and council, instead of the general public, critics have sai

Jakarta – With war looming in Iraq, Quds Production garment workshop owner Syahrul Arief mass produces tee-shirts supporting Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Residents of Kelapa Gading district, North Jakarta, lost on Thursday their class-action suit against Governor Sutiyoso at the Jakarta State Administra