2. Geography
Situated on the northwest coast of Java, at the mouth of
the Ciliwung River on Jakarta Bay, Jakarta Special District
has 662 km2 of land area and 6,977 km2 of sea area.
Jakarta is located in a low, flat basin, averaging 7 metres
(23 ft) above sea level.
Based on Köppen climate classification system, Jakarta
has a hot and humid tropical wet and dry climate. Rainy
seasons in Jakarta starts from November through June.
The remaining four months forms the city’s dry season.
Jakarta's wet season rainfall peak is January with
average monthly rainfall of 385millimetres (15.2 in), and
its dry season low point is July with a monthly average
of 31millimetres (1.2 in).
3. What You Should Know Before Visiting Jakarta
This city is massive, Jakarta is the world’s 2nd largest city and is populated with 30
Million people.
Indonesia was a Dutch Colony, there are really many old Dutch buildings there, the old
Dutch buildings are made as tourist attractions.
The traffic in Jakarta is really bad, you better take a walk if your destination is close,
And you really need to be patient.
If you are confused of the transportation you use along the way, there are many
Online transportation you could download in Indonesia, GO-JEK and Grab is a
Really popular online transportation, the price is real affordable and cheap.
Jakarta has really many malls, such as, Grand Indonesia, Taman Angrek and many
Others.
Jakarta has many Muslims, you should dress properly.
4. National Monument
Monas is a national monument of Indonesia. It’s a very popular tourist attraction.
We don’t have to pay a ticket to go inside it is free, buy you should pay if you
want to go to the top to see the view. I suggest you to brig a hat, because its
really hot.
The top of monas is covered with gold foil, Monas is 132 m tall.
5. Kota Tua
Kota Tua is a popular Tourist attraction too, we can do many activities there.
Many photographer took they’re shots there, because there are very my beautiful
spots, we can rent a bike called ‘Sepeda Ontel’, we will also be borrowed a colorful
hat.
Kota tua is one of the building built by the Dutch, now become a tourist
attraction.
6. Traditional Foods
1. Kerak Telor
Authentic food in Jakarta, with white sticky
rice ingredients, chicken eggs, dried roasted ebi
plus fried shallots, then given mashed spices in
the form of roasted coconut, red chili, kencur,
ginger, pepper granules, salt and sugar sand.
2. Ketoprak Telur
Ketoprak is a vegetarian dish from Jakarta,
Indonesia, consists of tofu, vegetables and
rice cake, rice vermicelli served in peanut
sauce.
7. Culture
Jakarta is the economic and political capital of Indonesia, so its residents are of
many different cultures and ethnicities. The people are mostly of Malay and
Polynesian descent, with over 300 ethnic groups and subgroups represented.
Due to its long history as a key trading post, Jakarta is also home to immigrant
minorities of Chinese, Arabic and Persian descent. The cultural influences of
former colonial powers (the Portuguese, Spanish, English and Dutch) is also still
evident in the islands today.
Indonesia is home to over 500 languages, with three main language groups
being spoken on Java, all with a great number of dialects. The official language
is Bahasa Indonesia, but dialects of Betawi, Javanese and Sundanese are widely
used as well. Most people in the tourism industry can also speak some English,
and a small number of mostly elderly people can speak Dutch (a remnant from
when the islands were part of the Dutch East Indies) .
8. Transportation
There are so many transportation that we can use in Indonesia, here are some
online transportation
1. Gojek
Gojek is a online transportation app, it is very popular in
Jakarta, gojek have motor bike, car, taxi,it can send us food
and drinks, it also can shop things for us. You can download
it from the play store.
2. Grab
Grab is also an online transportation app, it also have
the same fiture like gojek. You can download it from the
playstore
9. Travel
Normally, if we go travelling, we will sleep in the hotel. There are lots of hotel there.
You can book it in some of these apps.
1. Traveloka
Traveloka is a app for booking hotel and flight, you
can get a more affordable price by booking with this
app, you can downloadit free on playstore
2. Tiket.com
Its is also similar to Traveloka, you can download it free
From the play store.
10. Stores
These below are a popular stores in Jakarta.
1. Alfamart
Alfamart is a popular store in Jakarta, it sells
our daily needs and, many others, it almost sell
everything.
2. Indomaret
Its really similar to Alfamart, but it also sells real
food like sausages, bread, and even rice and onigiri