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If you can stand its pollution, and if you can afford to indulge in its charms, then Jakarta is one of the region's most exciting metropolises. Consider Jakarta the 'big durian' - the foul-smelling exotic fruit that some can't stomach and others can't resist.
Once saddled with a reputation as a poverty-ridden hell hole, Jakarta mutated into an Asian boom town in not much more than a decade. Reduced by the 1998 riots to a burnt-out shell, it remains very much at the centre of political events re-shaping Indonesia.
Fast Facts
Population
9,300,000
Currency
Name: Rupiah
Code: IDR
Symbol: Rp
Electrical Plugs
127/230V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Indonesian
Time Zones
GMT/UTC +7
Country Dialing Code
+62
Weights & Measures
Metric
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