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Indonesian President Joko Widodo launched construction on Wednesday for a new line on Jakarta's mass rapid transit (MRT) system, funded by a loan of nearly $1 billion from Japan, in a bid to ...
Indonesia's parliament on Thursday designated special status for Jakarta, keeping the metropolis as the country's economic epicentre, amid plans to move the capital city to Borneo island.
JAKARTA (Reuters) -Thousands of people rallied in several cities in Indonesia on Friday, pressuring its poll body to issue rules for regional elections amid outrage over an attempt by ...
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 ...
The Jakarta Post was the brainchild of Information Minister Ali Murtopo and politician Jusuf Wanandi, who were disappointed at the perceived bias against Indonesia in foreign news sources. [2] At the time, there were two English-language dailies in the country, The Indonesia Times and The Indonesian Observer. [3]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian lawmakers canceled plans to ratify controversial revisions to the country's election laws, the deputy speaker of Parliament said, after thousands of ...
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.