2. Juli 2012
Dear Jakarta,
F or you we present this photos of Jakarta, the Biggest City in Indonesia. The city
with 24 hours of life activity and never sleep. Jakarta with it dynamics living
and activities is attracting and encourage us to captured the reality of the daily life.
We tried to show the difference perspective of Jakarta such as population, social
life, activities, and problems that often occure like flood, traffic jam, waste, poverty,
etc.
Jakarta, we love this city…
Best Regards,
Street Banditos
Table of Contents
01. Dream, Reality and Hope
by Yohanes Dwi Prasetyo 41. Waste and Jakarta
by M. Fahran Ismail
09. Jakarta Overpopulated
by Arry Ramadhan 49. When The Discomfort Started
to Bother by Jefri Priambodo
17. Best Wishes for Jakarta
by Krisna Murti 57. Faces of Jakarta
by Fahmi P. Rahman
25. Those whoGovenance?
Or a poor
fail? Slackers?
by Rizky Putranto
65. Little Things Around Jakarta
by Ginanjar Dwi Santoso
33. A Letter to Jakarta
by Indra Rizkiawan 72. The Banditos
Photo by Arry Ramadhan
4. Dear Jakarta,
Your glamorous is so tempting. As moths are looking for
bright lights and fly toward the light, many people come
to you from out of town every year.
Over 114,000 new comers in a year, what a number.
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As a capital city you give them a light of dream. You give
them a Cinderella story although you never promised to
those people that they will achieve their dream.
Light Of Dream
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5. Dear Jakarta,
Your glitter of city life has made so many complexity
problems. Traffic, social welfare, environment are the
most. You are no longer friendly and natural. He’s strong
who survive, law of the jungle applies. The survival is not
always succeeds people, some of them just survive to eat,
not for their life.
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But it does not lessen the allure of, even though your
blink blink life is just like a circus performance of cheerful
decoration.
Circus of Reality
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6. Dear Jakarta,
You need a wise and clean leader. You need a
city government that is capable of changing
the city become more neatly. We are fed up
with the promise of political appointments. We
often heard the sweet words from gubernatorial
candidates with no significant result. 3 years is
not a promise that we need, nor the person who
claims expert. We just need an honest person
with a good background as well, who could
see and feel the problems that exist, with no
tendency to self-interest or group.
We still hope a better of you, a better Jakarta
Promises and Hope
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9. Jakarta Overpopulated
Day after day Jakarta increasingly more congested. Maybe
like a disease, it is very chronic Jakarta which already has
symptoms ranging from congestion, poor sanitation,
garbage, until the problem are more acute, it is a newcomer
could not be stopped to make Jakarta more crowded.
Immigrants continued to arrive from outside Jakarta in the
absence of supervision between the incoming and outgoing
Jakarta. According to Central Bureau of Statistics from Table
Results of Population Census 2010 DKI JAKARTA population
numbered 9,607,787 inhabitants. And the number is twice
the population of Singapore! WOW!.
This phenomenon is a demographic phenomenon and that
is natural. But if this phenomenon left unchecked it will
constantly fatal to Jakarta. I believe with good management
of government, this will not happen or at least can be muted.
And I really hope, a new leader Jakarta this time can solve
this problem.
Hopefully ...
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12. KRL* has been a favorite means of mass
transportation that connects Jakarta
and its surrounding areas. However, the
service quality of the KRL is far from
adequate. The gentleman in the photo
is definitely one of the victims of such
inadequacy. We hope that the next
governor of Jakarta will take this matter
more seriously and come up with a
solution that will satisfy every KRL user.
* Kereta Rel Listrik (Electric Multiple Unit)
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Overload
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13. The person who drew the grafitti probably
sense that Jakarta now is rather similar with
Jakarta in the old days. I don’t know why he/
she made such conclusion, but I got a feeling
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he/she felt that Jakarta has not improved
significantly from his/her perspective. That’s
why he/she has the urgency to put his/her
critique into the form of art.
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14. We all love clean Jakarta, especially
Jakarta without any riots. However, it is
close to impossible to make it come true.
As a capital city of Indoensia, Jakarta will
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never be clean and free from riots.Wishing
for such conditions is futile, at least for
now. But, there is always hope for a better
Jakarta as portrayed in the grafitti.
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17. Those who fail? Slackers? Or a poor Govenance?
Dear Jakarta,
Jakarta, a city which is a region with the densest population in Indonesia,
Jakarta as a metropolitan city, Jakarta which for most people to be a
place to pursue a dream, rushing throng residents of outlying areas
come to town to earn a fortune.
Many people who come pose serious problems. For those who are not
fortunate in this city had become vagrants and beggars.
To date, the number of vagrants and beggars in Jakarta, is still an issue
that never gets done. This is a proof of the failure of local governments
in developing, as well as raise the economic welfare of a fair and
equitable.
Vagrants and beggars should be nurtured and given the skills, so as to
be independent, local governments tend to be far only raid and arrest
of street children and beggars, without providing solutions such as
making training to make the products in order to become productive
human beings are able to prosper.
Budget to support the training and skills that already exist. But, never
actually used controlled. Currently, the number of street children and
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beggars are scattered in Jakarta reached about 8,000 inhabitants.
highest in East and West Jakarta.
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20. A letter to Jakarta
Hi Jakarta, how are you today? I hope you are always good,
as you should be the Capital of Indonesia. Even if your area
only 661,52km2 in the west of the island of java, but many of
Indonesian people depend a lot of their life to you.
I remember our meeting 10 years ago, I was only really knew about
you. With just a Bachelor Certificate and young spirit, I tried my
fortune. I spent days with joy and sorrow, I complain sometimes
when your roads are filled with flood or when your road is filled
with plenty of vehicles that for traffic jams, then your air is polluted
by the suffocating pollution. But sometimes I feel grateful when the
convenience of getting an electrical power source or when I simply
get some gasoline for my ride, where many areas in Indonesia is
very difficult to get it.
Dear Jakarta, why the hell you are like this? There is someone
who takes care of you, right? Once every 5 years we use our
right to choose the one who can take care of you. With a little
hope and faith, we collect our votes to elect people who will be
responsible of everything about you.
Is it possible he was not really care about you or he does not
understand how to take care of you? But maybe he also is trying
to take care of you slowly. So you do not give up to us, although
sometimes we say something bad about you, you are still the
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best for us, for our family.
We always love you, happy birthday Jakarta.
Traffic Jam
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Happy People
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23. Waste
and Jakarta
by M. Fahran Ismail
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24. Waste, says it already familiar to the
people of Jakarta. Because the waste
is one of the problems that come to
enliventhe complexity of life in Jakarta.
Imagine Everyday, 6500 tons of waste
dispose citizens of Jakarta. This waste
volume increase and average of 5
percent annually. It seems trivial, but
from this waste problems in Jakarta is
started.
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Waste
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25. The river is one practical place for people in Jakarta
to take out the waste. Solittering becomes clogged
drain age is a daily sight, especially in areas along the
banks of the River. The mindset of the people who
cause the short termit is a common place. All of the
silting of the river in Jakarta cause by waste.
Shallowing
26. Flooding is not a disaster any more for
the people of Jakarta, they have become
accustom to flood seach year. High rain fall,
accumulation of waste, siltation of rivers,
poor drainage, and lack of soil in filtration,
the cause of flooding in Jakarta, which has
long been identified.Until now the flood has
not been handled well, although its cause has
been known for a long time.
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Flood
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28. I felt at peace when the eyes were covered with
a comfortable ...
the night is no longer covered by the peace ..
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jakarta oh jakarta you keep growing bigger and
whether you will be enveloped by the tranquility,
I will miss you peace and comfort ...
Sleep
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29. I want to say when the mouth is closed ...
all are no longer familiar to me ..
changes are so boring to me how long this
will continue to happen and why this all
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happened! I want to jakarta is no longer
covered my mouth with what happened ..
I miss U jakarta
Talk
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30. A wordless friendship, all thoughts,
Friendship
hopes and wishes expressed and
summarized together - to save the
unity and longing. You have a lot of
changes in you my friend and you
have plenty of sleep my friend ..
is waking up again as we achieve our
glory once again.
My friend’s always been a friend
break the habit that used to be like
you, my friend Jakarta
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31. Faces of
Jakarta
by Fahmi P. Rahman
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34. Faces of Jakarta
Dear Jakarta,
For some people Jakarta was a big city that has thousands of hopes, chances, and dreams.
Every year, thousands of people come from small city in Indonesia to Jakarta, they seek
for a better future here. But, behind its beauty, Jakarta has many untold story, unspoken
reality, dark side of the biggest city in Indonesia.
The most dynamic city in Indonesia, the city that never sleep, Jakarta activities never killed
by time. Hour by hour might been gone, but Jakarta never show it weakness as a biggest
city in Indonesia. Traffic, business, the dynamics of Jakarta people, blend together into one
big wheel that rotating from day to night, from night to day. Jakarta is a city that offer many
opportunities, a city for people hanging their life, a city that can make their dreams and
wishes come true.
Jakarta is a tough city, a city that never sink by it sparks of existences, a city that never
deserted from people which always hope about their future. Traffic and poverty was the
biggest issue on this city, millions of cars, busses, and motorcycles filled the Jakarta roads
everyday, thousands of poor peoples are stay at slums area, bridges, roads, and spreads
around almost at all part of Jakarta. Flood and garbage also taking a part of disaster that
Jakarta have to face. The indiscipline people and lack of educations about how to keep
the environment clean is the biggest factor of those problems that Jakarta have to live
everyday, every hour, every minute, every second.
Jakarta from my perspective is a city with many uniques characters, a city with it own
troubles, a city that never changed into a stop rotating city. Jakarta is beautiful if we throw
our ego, if we stand together with the same vision, same mission, to changed the Jakarta
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into a better city. This is my Jakarta, this is the reality of Jakarta, this is the face of Jakarta.
My big city,
Steps of Jakartans My city that never sleep. Jakarta…
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36. Fogging officers “a mist creator” is going
to spray the smokes to kill the mosquitoes
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around the environment. These activities
A Creator of Smoke (Mosquitoes Killer) rannually preform. Because Jakarta is
endemic of dengue fever.
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37. A trader makes an egg crust. One of
characteristic of Jakarta culinary that
supposedly can only be found once a year
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in PRJ. But, that the egg crust can be found
Jakarta Culinary Warriors in public places, for example, merchants
are peddling these in Ragunan Zoo.
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38. The two sides of life are separated by a pillar.
It’s sufficient to describe the condition of the
city, a social gap. Photo above shows a young
man playing his gadget, while the state next
to an old beggar who was counting his beg.
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This is a very common sight in the city because
of high levels of social inequality and welfare Limiting The Fate of Pole
differences are very striking.
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39. The Banditos
Andy Priyantoko Krisna Murti
“A good photographer is someone who “Decisive moments are meant to be
willing to respect other people’s work” embraced with our eyes”
http://streamzoo.com/ss/u/andyp http://instacanv.as/tuanmudakrisna
Arry Ramadhan Lim Heryadi
“Make your eyes as the real camera” “Don’t follow me....follow HIM!”
http://500px.com/arryrama http://instacanv.as/limheryadi
Fahmi P. Rahman Lutfiar Adriansyah
“I see the truth through my lens” ““Free Your Soul to enjoy “”
http://fuchme.tumblr.com http://instacanv.as/ryan_djacktray
M. Fahran Ismail Indra Rizkiawan
“Do not talk too much, let the photo speak” “Create photos with your passion”
http://rumahbata.tumblr.com http://instacanv.as/bono29
Ginanjar Rizky Putranto
“Try to translate the madness of the “Because candid can happen to
world in a different perspective” anyone.. then beware”
http://ginank.tumblr.com http://riskp.tumblr.com
Indra Sentosa Riza Murtaza Rohendy
“Just want to make a good photo” “Too much presets will kill you”
http://indranamakoe.tumblr.com Instagram : @rizataza
Jefri Priambodo Yohanes Dwi Prasetyo
“Human Knowledge Belongs To The World” “Taking photos is easy, capturing the
http://nosegment.tumblr.com soul of the picture that is difficult”
http://crucinexio.tumblr.com
Jowie Arya
“Street photography is actually
about the realities of life”
http://adezigh.tumblr.com
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