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The informations of what you might need to know about Jakarta.... |
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Shopping is one of Jakarta’s biggest attractions. Clothes, shoes and many other goods are very cheap, especially those that are locally made. Brand-na... |
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Jl Jaksa’s cafes are convivial meeting places dishing out standard travelers fare. They are certainly cheap and the breakfasts are very good value. Fo... |
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In the city’s southeast, near Kampung Rambutan, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah is one of those ‘whole country in one park’ collec... |
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The old town of Batavia, now known as Kota, was once the hub of Dutch colonial Indonesia. It contained Coen’s massive shoreli... |
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Just east of Merdeka Square, in front of the Borobudur Inter-Continental Hotel, Lapangan Banteng was laid out by the Dutch in... |
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Eager to prevent a rerun of the Chinese massacre of 1740, the Dutch prohibited all Chinese from residing within the town wall... |
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Along the bay front, between Kota and Tanjung Priok, the people’s ‘Dreamland’ is built on land reclaimed in 1962. This huge l... |
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On the western side of Merdeka Square, the National Museum, built in 1862, is the best museum in Indonesia and one of the f... |
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For many Indonesians, Jakarta is the place where dreams are made. As the city where deals are won and lost, political alliances are forged and broken,... |
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Spend even a day in Jakarta and it seems unlikely that any kind of wilderness could exist within a hundred miles of this vast, urban sprawl. And yet o... |
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Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta international airport is 35km west of the city centre. A toll road links the airport to the city and the journey takes about ... |
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Jakarta is the main international gateway to Indonesia; for details on arriving here from overseas see the introductory Getting There & Away section a... |
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Jakarta is Indonesia’s most broad-minded, sophisticated and decadent city, with the nightlife to match. ... |
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Indonesia’s independence was proclaimed at Gedung Perintis Kemerdekaan (Jl Proklamasi 56) in Menteng, on the site of the former home of Soekarno. A mo... |
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Kota – the old town of Batavia, now known as Kota, was once the hub of Dutch colonial Indonesia.... |
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Check the entertainment pages of the Jakarta Post, Djakarta!, or Jakarta Kini for films, concerts and special events. Films, lectures and discussions ... |
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Jakarta’s earliest history centers in the port of Sunda Kelapa, in the north of the modern city. ... |
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(update 8 Agustus 2008)
Ingloriously dubbed ‘Soekarno’s final erection’, this 132m-high column, towering over Merdeka Square, is both Jakarta’s princ... |
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Jakarta sprawls more than 25km from the docks to the suburbs of south Jakarta, covering 661 sq km. ... |
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