#jarkarta

[sitting-on-me-bum]

This photo shows the sharpness of this gecko’s eyes while he is hungry and looking for food.

By @dikyedarling (Jakarta, Indonesia)

[forget-me-nights]

Honestly I can't belive there are people out there, who are so privileged and naive and ignorant that they don't understand that we humans as a collective already live out those dystopian novels.

[originallyzealous]

Straight out of Jarkata, Indonesia and debuting with 88Rising comes the next Asian princess of RnB. At Originally Zealous, though we do love and engulf ourselves in the vaporwave lifestyle sometimes it’s refreshing to hear a different sound of music.

[mima-foto]

Strassenverkauf www.mima-foto.de #verkauf #shop #laden #strasse #jarkarta #indonesien #picoftheday (hier: Jakarta, Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgI638dKJ7W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[theodongthoisu]

Thủ đô của Indonesia được săn đón nhất trên Instagram

Thủ đô của Indonesia được săn đón nhất trên Instagram

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Thủ đô của Indonesia là nơi dừng chân của hàng triệu người từ khắp nơi trên thế giới. Nơi này không chỉ là thiên đường ẩm thực mà còn nổi tiếng với cuộc sống sôi động về đêm và kiến trúc độc đáo.

Theo số liệu từ Instagram, Jakarta dẫn đầu danh sách 5 thành phố được gắn thẻ vị trí nhiều nhất trên Instagram Stories. Theo CNN, danh sách được thống kê nhân dịp kỷ niệm một năm ra đời công…

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[yellowarchi]

"Loose or Corroded Bolts" Found as Likely Culprit of Indonesia Stock Exchange Collapse

Loose or corroded joints have been identified as the likely culprit of the collapse of a mezzanine floor at Jarkarta’s Indonesia Stock Exchange.

[yesthatstrue]

on shopping in jakarta (I)

Today let’s explore food shopping.   Over the past month I’ve visited a plethora of supermarkets and grocers, trying to find some balance between cost and quality.  Before coming to Jakarta I imagined myself shopping at street markets or something similar, but I’ve realized that’s a little impractical for me. 

First, I don’t live within walking distance of any such markets.  Taking the car to score a deal on eggs hardly seems worth it.  

Second, I’m sure that being foreign would guarantee a higher price to begin with, and my Indonesian is no where near good enough to bargain.  Yet. #goals.

So for now I’m shopping in places that look pretty similar to grocery stores in Japan and the US.  They can though be broken down into smaller subcategories.   Some of the places cater to foreign crowds specifically.  Papaya, for instance, is a Japanese grocery store of sorts.  It seems to have reasonable quality, and a good variety of ingredients used in Japanese dishes, but it is much too expensive for me to want to shop there.  

Stores like Ranch Market cater to a more Western crowd.  I’ve seen Poptarts, Reese’s Puffs Cereal (which I would have bought had it not been $8), and an assortment of Betty Crocker cake mixes.  In fact, the volume of imported goods available in Jakarta is much more than I’ve ever seen in Japan.   I assume that the slight lack of imported goods in Japan could be contributed to two things: one - Japan already has a booming local economy that is saturated with domestic brand names, and two - Japanese people like to buy Japanese products.  

So back to Jakarta.  There are supermarkets that clearly cater to foreign buyers, but of course there are also ones that definitely cater to a more local crowd.  I find the selection there a little underwhelming, but the prices are much better.   Today’s shopping trip was mostly for vegetables and staples, like spices and bottled water.  I visited a more ‘local’ grocer and bought the following.

My haul was 120,000 rupiah, which is about $9 or 996円. To be honest, I haven’t really lived as a true adult in the US, so I’m not sure how that compares.  But my gut tells me it’s pretty cheap.  In Japan for that volume, plus some ‘higher’ priced items like avocado and coconut milk, it would be a steal.  And yes, the double stuffed oreos are on my list of ‘staples.’ 

[naliya]

ISIS bombed Jakarta and this kind of proves for the umpteenth time that they don't care about Muslims at all, since Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country with the biggest Muslim population.

Yes, I have heard. I have no words to be honest…

And really this is one more reason why people need to stop conflating criticism of Islam, with criticism of the people themselves. It is important and urgent to stop conflating the two, NOW, they aren’t the same. Defending theocrats in the name of tolerance will get us nowhere and only play into the hands of those religious zealots who wish to impose their version of what faith is on those who do not subscribe to it. Calling out extremism when we see it isn’t hating all Muslims, pointing out the flaws within Islam that those people use to oppress isn’t either. 

The first victims of islamic extremism are muslims themselves and those people will keep being subjugated, jailed, tortured, killed… etc… if we keep acting like they aren’t real, like there is only one version of Islam that every Muslim agrees with and if we keep pushing the discourse that scrutinizing ideas (especially when they’re bad ideas) is the same as hate speech.