Where is Jakarta? It is in Indonesia. Where is Indonesia? It is in Asia, South East Asia. Jakarta, officially known as the Special Capital Region of Jakarta, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Due to rapid progess and modernisation, Jakarta has long been surrounded by its growing-up neighboring suburbs. There are some satellite cities to support it from where commuters throng Jakarta each day. It's called Jabotabek or greater Jakarta. Jabotabek the combination of "Ja"karta + "Bo"gor + "Ta"ngerang + "Be"kasi cities (Kota) and Regencies (Kabupaten), this name was rendered obsolete when "De"pok was added. So it is also called Jabodetabek.

Monday, June 10, 2013

You Must Speed Up In Jakarta's Street

The unwritten rules says: You must speed up in Jakarta's street, otherwise, you'll get nervous or people will keep yelling at you. However, if you are driving a car and feel comfortable with it, you can deal with well, right. But if you have a motorcycle to ride, you must be a speed demond! You must overtake one another and you must be the fastest on the street. You are the king. One exception, you cannot speed up riding this, because you...

Jakarta Street Singer

This Jakarta street singer is one among hundreds of the like getting on one citybus to another. They can only enter the conventional bus called Kopaja, Metro Mini or Patas AC, but not the Trans Jakarta Bus Way or the Air-Conditioned Electrical Commuter Train (KRL) if they prefer to have potentisal market on the train. So far the economy train is dominated by them, no matter how packed the train is. Sorry, wrong picture, he's selling books anyway. This...

Lost In The City?

Life is too hard to live Lost in the city or life is too hard to lead in Jakarta? What is the man doing there, squatting for nothing? Is he thinking about better life? Does he get drunk? Is he broke? Depressed? What should he do next to survive? You'll see everyday in Jakarta , street men get on the city minibus called Metro Mini or Kopaja to beg money as street singers or usually the tattoed ones straightforwardly estort you in softer way. It's...
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