Here is some basic information about traveling to Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, it is the metropolitan city in Indonesia. Other than jakarta, Indonesia's biggest city is Bandung, Medan, Surabaya, and also the famous island in the world, Bali.
If you want to travel to Jakarta, I have three options for you, high budget, standard budget and low budget. Jakarta provides all the budgets levels for travellers. Indonesia's money currency is in Rupiahs, today, Rupiahs rate is about Rp8.700/US$, Which for the Americans, living and spending their money in Jakarta is not a big deal. For European, It rate about Rp12.000/Euro, which is a very good deal. Don't be surprised if you happen to find a mineral bottle cost Rp5000, it is not expensive, it is cheap, it just that Indonesian add more zero's :)
However, the International airport is Soekarno-Hatta Int'l Airport, It is located 50 minutes away from the center of Jakarta. You can take taxi or a bus to the center of Jakarta or any location you want in Jakarta, it only cost you Rp20.000 (about 3$) for the bus and it cost more expensive you take the taxi, it cost about Rp100,000(10-13$) from the airport to the central jakarta.
Because Jakarta is the metropolitan city and everyone comes to Jakarta to make a living, it makes Jakarta pretty crowded and we get used with the traffic jam. Time that you NEED to AVOID while working days are : 6AM - 8AM in the morning and 4PM to 6PM in the evening. Mostly all part of Jakarta is jammed.
I will write soon about how and what to see in Jakarta!
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