10 Tips For Women Travelling To Jakarta, Indonesia
By Margaret Agusta, 18 November 2016
These must-know tips for women travelling to Jakarta will help you navigate the crowded, tricky and patriarchal city better.
These must-know tips for women travelling to Jakarta will help you navigate the crowded, tricky and patriarchal city better.
When shopping at traditional venues, patience is key. Chances are, vendors up the price significantly for a foreign customer.
Like most South East Asian urban centres, Jakarta is host to a vast array of tasty offerings.
n Jakarta, it is most advisable to contact or even go directly to your embassy when things go badly wrong, before filing a report with the police.
Just one glance at the crowded streets of Jakarta will show visitors how problematic getting around in Indonesia’s capital can be in the best of conditions.
Indonesia’s currency is the Rupiah, which is abbreviated as Rp. or IDR. Coins start at IDR100 up to IDR1,000. Banknotes range in value from IDR1,000 up to IDR100,000.
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Jakarta, which locals and long-timers allude to variously as the “big kampong” or “big durian” is a cultural hodge-podge of peoples from across the Indonesian archipelago and around the world.
A guide that may help make business interactions more comfortable and effective.