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Tempo.co
March 26, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Police Special Crime director Sr. Comr. Adi Deriyan Jayamarta said the police were still awaiting the results of technical research from the Jakarta administration on the spatial reorganization of the Tanah Abang area. “The Jakarta administration says everything it does is basedÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 26, 2018
Auto-rickshaw driver Zainuddin used to make decent money navigating Jakarta's congested roads and narrow alleyways. But now US-based Uber, Google-backed Go-Jek and Singapore's Grab are locked in a race for ride-hailing app supremacy in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, denting the fortunes ofÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
March 26, 2018
KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian low-cost carrier (LCC) Citilink Indonesia has launched the new Jakarta-Penang route, marking its global expansion to serving the Asean countries. Citilink Indonesia's president director Fransetya Hutabarat said the new Jakarta-Penang flight will further strengthen the AseanÃâà...
Tempo.co
March 26, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Former England's football team captain David Beckham arrived in Indonesia to attend a football charity event at Kuningan, South Jakarta on Sunday, March 25. The event was also attended by the Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi. He maintained that he is always happy toÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 26, 2018
Jakarta is sinking so fast that it could end up underwater due to rising sea levels and more extreme weather brought by climate change. At the same time, locals illegally drain groundwater because they are facing a shortage of water supply, further sinking the capital. As a result, about 40 percent of JakartaÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 26, 2018
Jakarta to form team to study water privatization controversy A worker monitors the quality of untreated water at a water treatment facility owned by private tap water company PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya (Palyja) in Central Jakarta. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)Ãâà...
The Straits Times
March 26, 2018
JAKARTA (JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The administration of Indonesia's capital is targeting to implement electronic road pricing (ERP) within one year, said Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno. "We are firm, and there shouldn't be more delay in implementing (ERP), which is (expected)Ãâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 25, 2018
Jakarta: The Fairfax Media office, in Jakarta's Deutsche Bank building, is a journalistic time machine. As the home of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in Indonesia, it's a snapshot of a series of working lives, the priorities and peccadilloes of previous correspondents carefully filed, full of boxes, oldÃâà...
Tempo.co
March 23, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Destructive Fishing Watch (DFW) and the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) held a mangrove planting event to celebrate World Water Day 2018. They also cleaned the pond at Nizam Zahman Ocean Fishing Port in North Jakarta, today. DFW national coordinator AbdiÃâà...
Borneo Bulletin Online
March 23, 2018
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – Dozens of people took showers together in front of Jakarta's City Hall yesterday in protest of the involvement of private companies in supplying pipe water to households. Under the theme 'Taking a Shower Together', people grouped under the Coalition of JakartaÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 23, 2018
Pakistan, RI celebrate historical ties Celebrations: Pakistani Ambassador Mohammad Aqil Nadeem (center) stands with Vice President Jusuf Kalla and ambassadors of several Islamic countries during a Pakistan National Day reception at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Jakarta on Friday.(JP/Steven) (center)Ãâà...
Jakarta Post
March 23, 2018
Prosecutors challenge court's verdict on Asma Dewi Asma Dewi, sentenced to five months and 15 days for insulting the government, is seen at the South Jakarta District Court on Feb. 1. (kompas.com/Nursita Sari)Ãâà...
GCR
March 23, 2018
As Indonesia faces a crisis in construction safety, the Jakarta Manpower and Transmigration Agency has found that most construction projects in the capital are unsafe. An inspection of 35 projects conducted by the agency in November has found that up to 80% of them breached legal standards, with safetyÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 23, 2018
Jakarta to open first two-pronged underpass to public The Matraman underpass in East Jakarta will be opened to the public on April 1. (Warta Kota/Joko Supriyanto)Ãâà...
ucanews
March 23, 2018
Indonesian Minister of Education Muhadjir Effendy (left) talks with Franciscan Father Vinsensius Darmin Mbula, chairman of the National Council of Catholic Education, about ways to improve education in Christian-majority provinces on March 21. (Photo by Ryan Dagur)Ãâà...
Jakarta Post
March 23, 2018
PREMIUM The Transportation Ministry's Greater Jakarta Transportation Management Agency (BPTJ) plans to kick off four transit-oriented development (TOD) projects in Jakarta's satellite cities this year. Two TOD projects will be developed in Poris Plawad, Tangerang, and Pondok Cabe in SouthÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 23, 2018
The ongoing trial of a radical Indonesia ideologue has revealed a disturbing fact: the 2016 Jakarta attacks that killed four innocent by-standers was directed by a death row terrorist inmate whose verdict was handed-down 13 years ago. Australian embassy bomber Iwan Darmawan Munto, alias Rois,Ãâà...
Jakarta Post
March 22, 2018
80% of Jakarta construction projects unsafe: Manpower agency Workers finish the framework structure for a fish market museum in North Jakarta on Nov. 6, 2017. The Jakarta manpower agency stated on Wednesday that the majority of construction projects in the capital did not meet safety or operationalÃâà...
ABC Online
March 2, 2018
The hottest topic of conversation in Jakarta recently has been Jakarta's jailed former governor, Ahok. But people aren't talking about his outrageous jailing on dubious blasphemy charges, or the slow unravelling of some of his signature projects to fix the broken city. They're talking about his split from hisÃâà...
Tempo.co
March 2, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The price of a one-way ticket for mass rapid transit or MRT trains is estimated to be pegged at Rp18,000. MRT Finance Director Jakarta Tuhiyat said the tariff was based on the assumed number of 173,000 daily passengers. "The tariff will be around those figures," said Tuhiyat inÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 2, 2018
Jakarta records 0.37% inflation in February A warehouse worker rests atop sacks of rice on Jan. 19 at the Cipinang Central Rice Market in East Jakarta. Increases in the price of rice and other food ingredients has caused 0.37 percent inflation in February in the capital. (Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)Ãâà...
Tempo.co
March 2, 2018
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indomobil Group, Volvo brand holder agent in Indonesia, handed B11R bus to PT Steady Safe Tbk as the first customer, to support Jakarta Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). The delivery ceremony was held at the special automotive commercial vehicle exhibition, GAIKINDO IndonesiaÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 2, 2018
Karen Millen reimagines workwear collection in Jakarta ... Anita Mantik, Karen Millen Indonesia's brand manager, told journalists during a preview luncheon in Jakarta recently that the latest collection carries on the brand's emphasis on premium quality fabrics and sharp tailoring, especially for workwear,Ãâà...
Jakarta Post
March 2, 2018
PREMIUM Former manager Roy Evans and a number of legends of English's Liverpool soccer club are scheduled to visit Jakarta on March 9 to 11 as part of the LFC World tour, an event presented by Standard Chartered. Evans took over from Graeme Souness in 1994 when the team was in rapid free-fall.
Indonesia Expat
March 2, 2018
Three other Asian cities join Mumbai at the top of the expat salary league – Shanghai ($202,200), Jakarta ($152,600) and Hong Kong ($148,400). Even though Asian cities offer expats high salaries, they tend to lag behind when it comes to job opportunities. HSBC found that the top-five cities with the mostÃâà...
Jakarta Post
March 1, 2018
The Pedestrian Coalition has criticized the Jakarta administration's move to allow street vendors to occupy sidewalks in Melawai, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, saying such policies may sacrifice the interests of pedestrians. Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno previously said street vendors wereÃâà...
CNN
February 16, 2018
Suparno, a fireman at the South Jakarta Fire and Rescue Department, told CNN his team often captures snakes in houses or off the streets of Jakarta, although he cannot be sure of the exact figure, as the fire department keeps no official record. The most recent snake he captured was a python hiding in aÃâà...
TRAFFIC
December 31, 1999
Download the full report Slow and Steady: the global footprint of Jakarta's tortoise and freshwater turtle tradeResearchers found 4,985 individuals of 65 different species of tortoise and freshwater turtles in just seven locations over a four-month period. Nearly half of these were threatened with extinctionÃâà...
