Sunda Kelapa, Jakarta, Java

Advantages: metropolitan
Disadvantages: traffic jam,bad polution

...jakarta is a number 1 big city in indonesia, u can see a great "MONAS" a monument with gold on the top of the colonnade, u can see a Betawi puppet call "Ondel-ondel". But u must carefull in jakarta because the traffic in the way is very crowded. in jakarta u can see much culture over there. sometimes demonstration from the some faculties can make u fell fear because this city is a capital city. the president, congres reside on this city. for tuourism u can find some tradional market or antique store on ahmad yani street, some backpackers live in jaksa street. in that street u can see a lot of hotel,restaurant, bar and discoutiq. in this city u can find a great girl and for the night live jakarta is city never sleep.... Read review

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Advantages: nice hotels
Disadvantages: bad 4 shopping

...Jakarta is really a business city and you don’t see many young foreign men there. But if you are those description and you want fun then it will be a great place to flirt with women. The weather is terrible, you can’t enjoy it, and it has become an aircon life from hotel to car to shopping mall. Forget about shopping, everything is very expensive; there are more designer shops there then there is in Europe. The hotels are fantastic and very good value for money and it goes for the restaurants. The culture seems to be very liberal especially the population being Muslims I found the women very daring.... Read review

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Advantages: Transport centre.
Disadvantages: Smelly, polluted and expensive

...- that's what the locals call Jakarta and it's well named. The durian is a large tropical fruit with a phenomenally strong and unpleasant smell - a ripe one can be scented at a distance of several dozen meters. And Jakarta is equally offputting - smelly, polluted, vast, complex, noisy and generally unpleasant. If you're going to Indonesia on holiday I'd say get out of Jakarta as fast as you can - either fly on and dont' leave the airport, or opt for a train (surprisingly efficient and rather nice in the top classes - DON'T travel economy, however tight your budget) to somewhere else in Java. Jakarta is also a LOT more expensive than pretty much anywhere else on Java and you'll pay twice or three times as much as elsewhere even for taxis, food and accommodation. Most budget hotels are on Jalan Jaksa, the backpackers enclave which offers... Read review

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