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Pandemic helps reduce Jakarta's traffic woes; Indonesia's Covid-19 total surges past 977,000


Jakarta s Sudirman area, which usually jammed with heavy traffic, goes empty following a mass self-isolation by Jakartans to prevent the spread of the Covid-19. - Jakarta Post/Asian News Network
JAKARTA, Jan 23 (Jakarta Post/ANN): For the first time in years, Jakarta is not on the list of the most congested cities around the globe as a recent report mentions that the city shows improvements in untangling the traffic jams.
The 2020 TomTom Traffic Index, an annual report published by Dutch location technology company TomTom, ranks the Indonesian capital the 37th-most-congested city in the world.
The city ranked 10th in the 2019 report. The index shows that the average congestion level in Jakarta was 36 per cent in 2020, down from 53 per cent in the previous year. ....

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Indonesia: Student alumni support vaccination campaign as cases go above 828,000; death toll tops 24,000


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A medical professional at a community health centre (Puskesmas) in Tapos, Depok, West Java, administers a vaccine during a Covid-19 vaccination simulation. - The Jakarta Post/Asian News Network
JAKARTA, Jan 10 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Alumni Menteng 64 (AM64), a group of Kolese Kanisius Catholic high school alumni, publicly declared its support for the government’s mass vaccination program in Jakarta.
The group said it was ready to help the government in reaching out to the public and raising public awareness of the importance of taking part in the vaccination drive.
“We are ready to be the government’s partner in conducting public campaigns for vaccination,” AM64 chairman Irlan Suud said. ....

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Indonesia's Medan defies the norm as country's Covid-19 cases hit almost 658,000


Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers hold signs urging residents to wear masks at the Merdeka Field in Medan, North Sumatra on June 28. - The Jakarta Post/Asian News Network
JAKARTA, Dec 19 (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Medan administration in North Sumatra will proceed with Christmas and New Year celebrations while urging residents to avoid crowds despite a prohibition against crowd-pulling events from the provincial administration to curb soaring Covid-19 cases.
Medan administration official Renward Parapat, representing the city s acting mayor Akhyar Nasution in a cross-sectoral meeting on the year-end holidays recently, said the administration would help ensure that Christmas and New Year celebrations in the city would run smoothly and safely. ....

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