Le Meridien Jakarta

Very comfy bed

Platinum best available room upgrade

New Year Eve, the hotel is full!

Sushi & sashimi for evening o*deavur!

Evening o*deavur @ Le Meridien Jakarta

Gembrong Gaplok, quite nice near the entrance

Food stall vendor

Pet shop

See the hanging mattress on the balcony?

Store with parking in front

They have to clean the plastic bottle before reselling

Weird rabbit

Tofu factory

Deep fried tofu

Informal sector and it*s the main way of making a living in Gembrong Gaplok

Goddness above the door

It has an unique infrasture

With its own factory, market, school etc etc

It is a city within city

Bintang factory

Making of

Entertainment for the kids

No NDS, PSP, WII, IPAD, IPHONE etc etc

3 wheels bajaj navigate through the narrow roads

Anneke in the mini bus

Manpower ride for kids

We are right next to the railroad, you can see the power line

Ronny giving the fried tofu we bought earlier to the kids

They start gambling young

Collecting plastic is how they make a living

She is younger than me and already has 3 kids!

This is a very poor area in Jakarta, they live in shelters adjoin the railroad wall

And the poorest live next to and in between the railraods

Surprisingly the it did not smell too bad here

Almost every single shelter has a young baby or kid

Of course they cannot afford diapers here

One of the unit inside the railroad area

Another unit right between the two tracks

Seeing this I am quite glad that China implemented the one child policy many years ago

Trash? Home? Belongins?

They don*t seem to do much here beside hanging out

Unit after unit along the railroad track

Random plastic worths 2000 RUP per kg, plastic water bottles worth 4000 RUP per kg

Just a mattress inside, nothing else

Kids playing on the track

Glass bottles worth the most, 5000 RUP per kg

They make around 100,000 RUP a week

One bag is about 30 kg and they collect about a bag every week

Looks good but did not dare to try

Ronny is very popular with the kids

Train coming!

Train coming!

It is a long train with many carts

The kid on the right imitates smoking already

Another train

Clear to cross

They bare with the noise of the train very 5 - 10 minutes

And the dusk and exhaust

Another pet shop

They learn how to many a living young

Cute puppy

The is one block inside the railroad track, rent for an unit is about 100,000 RUP a month

Most of the men are either sleeping or smoking

Anneke operates a tutor center for the kids here

School is free but class is only 2 hours a day

The kids just hangout most of the day

Snacks vendor

They love to take photo

And post for picture

Most family have 5 to 6 kids

The Indonesian government really need to educate their people to have fewer kids

Fight

Good looking kid

More kid

Good thing is the kids all look pretty healthy

Chicken mushroom noodle for lunch

CILIWUNG area

CILIWUNG is the name of the main river that flows through Jakarta

Houses damaged by previous flood

No running water

They is how they take bath, both boy and girl

Steel structure of the bridge

We are going under the bridge

It*s another world inside

Few families live here

They lock their belongings when it floods

A fire broke out here recently

They do everything at the river

Laundry

Cleaning

This area is subject to frequent flooding and the housing is shifting

Kids playing dangeously

Rebuild in process

Nothing in the house, they sleep on the floor

This is how they spend the day

Bath time

Police station for the area

The colorful apt complex is new

The bridge above where we were

Remember this steel structure from below?

Kids entertaining themselves

Few furniture factories here

We take the mini van to the closest busway

Da Vinci Tower

What is the point of having a busway if they don*t follow the lane?

Bank Mandiri Museum

Line of bajajs

Different types of transportation in Jakarta

Inside of Bank Indonesia Museum

Bank Indonesia Museum

Bank Indonesia Museum

They have very colorful drinks in Jakarta

Sidewalk chucky cheese

Cute graffiti

Sidewalk chucky cheese

Old Batavia

Old Batavia

Old Batavia

Old Batavia

Wayang Museum

Banana leaf wrap fishcake, 1000 RUP each

The buildings outside the main plaza yet have to restore

A lot of food vendors

Cafe Batavia

Wedding photo shotting

Town Hall of Batavia

Post Office in Jakarta Old Town

Town Hall of Batavia

Fine Art and Ceramic Museum

Fruit salad mixer

What is this guy doing?

Personalized engraved ring

Beverly Hill Hotel in Jakarta

Jakarta Train Station

Shopping mall in Jakarta

Pack of shoppers

So many varieties

So many shops

National Monument aka Monas

Portable toilet around Monas

137 m monument is located in the center of Merdeka (Freedom) square

Dioramas that portray the dramatic story of Indonesia history

Merdeka (Freedom) square

Looks yummy

Mahkamah Agung

Presidential Palace

Just one guard outside the palace

Wonder what this drawing is about

Istiqlal Mosque

The biggest mosque in Southeast Asia

Huge drum

Istiqlal Mosque

Istiqlal Mosque

Istiqlal Mosque

Istiqlal Mosque

Cathedral Church

Cathedral Church

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