Jakarta's main challenges include rapid urban growth, ecological breakdown, air pollution, gridlocked traffic, congestion, and flooding due to subsidence (sea level rise is relative, not absolute). Jakarta is sinking up to 17 cm (6.7 inches) annually, which has made the city more prone to flooding and one of the fastest-sinking capitals in the world. In response to these challenges, in August 2019, President Joko Widodo announced plans to move the capital from Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara, in the province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The MPR approved the move on 18 January 2022. (Full article...)
Jakarta History Museum was housed on the original town hall of 17th-century Batavia, the capital of Dutch East Indies and center of the Asian spice trade.
Kota Tua Jakarta (Indonesian for "Jakarta Old Town"), officially known as Kota Tua, is a neighborhood comprising the original downtown area of Jakarta, Indonesia. It is also known as Oud Batavia (Dutch for "Old Batavia"), Benedenstad ("Lower City", contrasting it with Weltevreden, de Bovenstad ("Upper City")), or Kota Lama (Indonesian for "Old Town").
Lubang Buaya is the site of the murder of seven Indonesian army officers during the 1 October coup attempt of the 30 September Movement. Pictured is the well down which the army officers' bodies were dumped.
Ayu Rosmalina (born June 20, 1990), better known by her stage name Ayu Ting Ting, is an Indonesian singer and presenter. One of Indonesian dangdutdivas, she rose to fame by popularizing her song "Alamat Palsu" ("Fake Address") in 2011. Her stage name "Ting Ting" means "virgin" in Indonesian. (Full article...)
Image 23Jayakarta circa 1605–8, before its complete destruction by the Dutch, showing earlier pre-colonial structures before Batavia was founded (from Colonial architecture in Jakarta)
Image 24Jakarta MRT train leaving Lebak Bulus Station. (from Transport in Jakarta)
Image 26The Monas, Jakarta's symbol (from Jakarta)
Image 27Wisma 46, in post-modernist architecture, also an iconic skyscraper in Jakarta and tallest in Indonesia from 1996 until 2016 (from Jakarta)
Image 28Map of the administrative cities (Kota administratif) in Jakarta province; the Thousand Islands Regency (which is to the north) is shown on in the inset to the lower left. Each administrative city is further divided into districts (Kecamatan) (from Jakarta)
Image 29The main TV tower of TVRI at its headquarters in Jakarta (from Jakarta)
Image 30Glodok commercial area. The area of Kota and Glodok remained Jakarta's central business and banking district during the 1950s. (from History of Jakarta)
Image 31Jabodebek LRT arriving to Dukuh Atas station. (from Transport in Jakarta)
... that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, a regional councillor in Jakarta, Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?