On January 9, 2021, the world received the devastating news that a Boeing 737-500 operated by Sriwijaya Air, Flight SJ182, had crashed just a few miles north-northeast of Jakarta, only four minutes ...

Jakarta's rivers are contaminated by, among other things, wastewater from washing, bathing, and general household waste ...

The Thousand Islands, also known as the Seribu Islands, comprise hundreds of islands in the northernmost part of Jakarta, ...

Tens of thousands of online ojek or ride-hailing drivers are staging a solidarity protest by disabling their applications, ...

Old footage of a mosque fire in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been miscaptioned as showing a July 2025 mosque blaze in central ...

A deadly fire that broke out over the weekend at a semipermanent structure in Bukit Duri, a densely populated subdistrict in ...

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely ...

Schools in Jakarta can partner with local community health centers (puskesmas) to implement the Free Health Checkup (PKG) program for students, a city health ...

JAKARTA — Millions of residents of Jakarta have for the past several weeks suffered from some of the worst air pollution recorded anywhere in the world. Even President Joko Widodo has been ...

JAKARTA — Rasdiono remembers when the sea was a good distance from his doorstep, down a hill. Back then he opened the cramped, gaily painted bayside shack he named the Blessed Bodega, where he ...