Jakarta, the other sides you don't know

[pr1v4t33r]

Surabaya, Jakarta (was) and Bandung currently being lead by ambitious yet very determined and creative Major. Gotta admit it, they beat Jekardah in a good sense

Yea, i hope whoever lead Jakarta would have some humility to continue whatever programs that work out well from the previous administration. We need the continuity to gradually improve the city and the life of its citizens.

 

[Nike]

We just take it for granted, everybody knew Jakarta is a large megapolis city, one of the largest city in the world. Roads is very vital for most of large cities in this world, one cant exist and grew without adequate roads as the most vital infrastructure, Jakarta is not spared from the fact. Jakarta had many large and very wide roads (among the few in the region who maintain 10 line or more wide roads in middle of downtown area), there is many tolls roads to complement roads systems in Jakarta including double envelop of Jakarta outer ring road toll systems.

 

[Nike]

Jakarta is very notorious well known for her heavy traffic jam and crowded roads. But there is moment when Jakarta is very quite and eerie, thats when mudik season happened especially at eidl fitri. This moment being captured by Big Durian citizen just like this

 

[Nike]

The Big Durian: Why first-timers to Durians and Jakarta should be with supervision
June 27, 2013 By James Clark 22 Comments

Jakarta is the city known as The Big Durian. Just like its fruity namesake, Jakarta has the ability to repulse first-time tasters and have them running, swearing never to return.

I have tried durian a couple of times and I still haven’t acquired a taste for it. The last time I tried it made me gag, but I am still willing to give it another go. I have friends who love durian, and I want to know why. Are they crazy, or am I missing something?

That is how I feel about Jakarta as well. At first blush it appears ugly (especially coming from the airport), yet – like any city – I want to peel away the layers and see what this place has to offer. Jakarta and durians are also similar in that first-timers should be under supervision. Before I had moved to Asia I would not have known how to eat a durian. Do you peel it or cut it? Then do you just bite into, or cut it again? The same goes for Jakarta. Where do you start? And how the hell do you get around this city of ten million people with no metro system? If you are visiting for the first time I would recommend having someone show you around.

[If a durian looked like a city, this is what you would see. Welcome to Jakarta.]

I first visited Jakarta in 2009 and I stayed in the backpacker street, Jalan Jaksa. I saw the highlights as highlighted in The Yellow Bible

, like the National Monument and Kota (the old town area), but didn’t really experience the city beyond that.

On that first visit I met up with a Melbourne friend who had just moved to the city for work three days earlier. As Jakarta newbies, Treen and I were fairly clueless about what to do. I recall we went looking for dinner and ended up walking past a bunch of local restaurants before settling on an expat place with a western menu.


Four years later I returned to Jakarta while on my way to Pangandaran. My friend Treen is still working in Jakarta, and she is there with her sister Tasha. I have known Tasha since 1998, so hubbing through Jakarta was a good excuse for me to catch up with friends I rarely see. In the time that the May sisters have been there they have got to know the city well, and started the blog We Love Jakarta. They are becoming seasoned Jakartans, and having a resident show me around this crazy city made for a completely different experience over seeing it by myself. We went out for Padang food, a confusing meal in itself for the uninitiated, then on to some excellent cafes in the leafy neighbourhood of Kemang.

[Padang food with Treen from welovejakarta.com]

Social Jakarta

On this trip I also met up with my friends Adam and Susan. They live three hours away in Bandung, but visit Jakarta enough to be able to show me around. We met at a new cafe that I would never have found on my own, and got a fix of good espresso coffee (a rarity in Jakarta).

Through Adam I was invited to participate in a travel meetup put on by travel booking site, Wego. At this event a group of travel bloggers each did a three minute presentation on what it means to travel.

[#WegoHangout – Jakarta]


Meeting Jakartans

While I have an advantage of knowing travel bloggers and expats to make connections with when I visit a city, a regular traveller can still do the same. Even if you don’t know anyone in a new city, I would recommend getting on Twitter and tweet that you will be visiting and are looking for some travel tips.

According to one study 2.4% of world’s Twitter posts come from Jakarta. This seems like an unbelievable statistic but having now visited, Twitter is everywhere here. This may have been due to the fact that Blackberry has been the dominant phone brand in Indonesia, and Twitter is used as an IM service.

Jakartans are proud of their city and if you tweeted that you are coming to visit you will be sure to get some travel tips, and maybe an offer to meetup. I found so many people I met were thrilled that I had bothered to visit the city rather than making my way straight to Bali.


Jakarta Resources

We Love Jakarta by my previously mentioned Melburnian friends.

Jakarta by Train. One of the biggest complaints about Jakarta (by locals and visitors alike) is the terrible traffic. If you can’t bare to face that then this site has listed things you can do that are around Jakarta’s modest train system.

TravelFish for more Jakarta travel info.

https://www.nomadicnotes.com/jakarta-the-big-durian/

 

[Nike]

Nice place to hang out in Kota Tua around Kali Besar

 

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[Nike]

Jakarta from sky, well this not CGI surely

 

[Nike]

Well Jakarta had it own Cat cafe for all meonger (cat lover pun)

 

[Nike]

Jakartans proud of the city's first MRT
24th Mar 2019 16:02

President Joko Widodo officially inaugurated the country’s first MRT line in Jakarta on Sunday (24/3/2019). (ANTARA PHOTO/Hafidz Mubarak A)

Jakarta (ANTARA) - A number of Jakarta residents have expressed their pride on the presence of the country's first Mass Rapid Transit (MRT).

"I am proud of it. Jakarta finally now has its own MRT," a local resident Jefri said at the National Monument (Monas), Jakarta, on Sunday.

Jefri said that he had read reviews on the MRT which was looked so clean, and expressed hope for users to practise self-discipline.

"Hopefully the government would not stop to innovate," he said.

Another resident Yudi expected that the MRT could facilitate Jakartans to go to their workplaces and do their daily activities.

Yudi called on the government to continue improving MRT services for its users.

A Jakartan Trisno said that he had been waiting for the operation of the MRT since early 2019.

"I come to Monas today with my family as I heard that President Joko Widodo would inaugurate the MRT from Hotel Indonesia to Lebak Bulus," Trisno said.

President Joko Widodo earlier officially inaugurated the country’s first MRT line in Jakarta on Sunday.

President Widodo, accompanied by his Cabinet ministers and dozens of VVIP guests, led the inauguration in a signing ceremony.
Reporter: Taufik, Fauzi / Azis Kurmala

Editor: Sri Haryati

COPYRIGHT © ANTARA 2019

 

[BATMAN]

Isn't Bintang the local beer in Indonesia, why the name is printed on the picture.
Can you also tell what's the best way to go around, because the first time visitor would only use taxi, which would keep stuck in traffic and could only visit shopping malls, until tired to death.

 

[Nike]

Isn't Bintang the local beer in Indonesia, why the name is printed on the picture.
Can you also tell what's the best way to go around, because the first time visitor would only use taxi, which would keep stuck in traffic and could only visit shopping malls, until tired to death.

Look like photo studio logo, not bintang the beer. The best way before go around Jakarta for first timer foreigner is finding information about Jakarta according to your own passion and preference, some people love night life, some love to shopping, some trying to visit historical sites and landmark and so on. Many information can be found in You tube and travel blogs

 

[lcloo]

Thanks @Marine Rouge, that is a real eye opener, completely wipe away the negative views that many of us have over the years. The most surprising is the opening and tolerance of liberal social activities.

Indonesia is progressing fast economically and socially, and sadly Malaysians' social lives nowadays are getting restricted in open premises due to increasingly extreme politically induced religious sensitivities.

 

[Indos]

Isn't Bintang the local beer in Indonesia, why the name is printed on the picture.
Can you also tell what's the best way to go around, because the first time visitor would only use taxi, which would keep stuck in traffic and could only visit shopping malls, until tired to death.

Use Gojek/Grab bike and Transjakarta (BRT) to go around. Start exploring at 9 in the morning and go home at 4 in the afternoon or 9 PM.

 

[Nike]

cinematic video of Jakarta from above

 

[shi12jun]

Jakarta is Southeast Asia's largest city, the world's first-tier cities, very beautiful!