December 31, 2010 ~ January 3, 2011 @ Jakarta, Indonesia



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


Pasar Baru


Old Batavia


Istiqlal Mosque


Istiqlal Mosque