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.