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March 27, 2024 at 9:32 PM. JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament on Thursday designated special status for Jakarta, keeping the metropolis as the country's economic epicentre, amid plans to ...
Jakarta ( / dʒəˈkɑːrtə /; Indonesian pronunciation: [dʒaˈkarta] ⓘ, Betawi: Jakartè ), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta [14] ( Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, abbreviated to DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the nation's capital city and the centre of the largest metropolis of Indonesia.
On 21 November 2022, at 13:21 WIB ( UTC+07:00 ), a Mww 5.6 earthquake struck near Cianjur in West Java, Indonesia. The strike-slip earthquake occurred with a focal depth of 11 km (6.8 mi). Between 335 and 635 people died, [a] 7,729 were injured and five remain missing. [2]
Antara is an Indonesian news agency organized as a statutory corporation. [a] It is the country's national news agency, supplying news reports to many domestic media organizations. It is the only organization authorized to distribute news materials created by foreign news agencies. The news agency was founded in 1937, when the country was still ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Days of torrential rain have brought floods and landslides in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, forcing the evacuation of more than 70,000 people, while killing at least 19 ...
Indonesia Raya (Jakarta) Indopos (Jakarta) – ceased publication in 2020, continued online. Republika (Jakarta) – ceased publication in 2022, continued online. Sinar Harapan (Jakarta) – ceased publication in 2015, continued online. Suara Pembaruan (Jakarta) Sin Po (Jakarta, Indonesian-language edition) Suara Karya – continued online.
The largest English-language dailies, both published in Jakarta with print runs of 40,000, are the Jakarta Post and the Jakarta Globe. As of 2003, newspapers have a penetration rate of 8.6 percent. The principal weekly news magazines are Tempo, which also produces an English-language edition, and Gatra.
2020 Jakarta floods. Flash floods occurred throughout the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and its metropolitan area on the early hours of 1 January 2020, due to the overnight rain which dumped nearly 400 millimetres (15 in) of rainwater, [2] [3] causing the Ciliwung and Cisadane rivers to overflow. [4] At least 66 people have been killed, and ...