I just knew besides some differences, Indonesia and India share many similarities.

Dutch people used to call Jakarta “Queen of the East”, it is Indonesia’s biggest city, and the capital city of Indonesia since Independence day on August 17th, 1945 up to August 26th, 2019, (now the capital city is Nusantara in Borneo / Kalimantan), for certain people has a sort of ‘charisma’ so as to make this town has prominent impression more than Indonesia as a country.

Why? We cannot explain. Jakarta is not always about happy experiences. But still, we love this city.

Priscilla Lee, a Korean girl having been living in Jakarta for a long time says:

“I don’t consider myself as a Korean nor an Indonesian, I am a Jakartan”

Jakarta is unreplaceable as a place to live.

Why? We don’t know ^_^

They try to reestablish peace between two groups at war, befriend the locals with human touch, playing around with kids etc.

And then farewell time becomes bitter.

Eating and rating in Bali. Quite surprising that Lontong Balap beats Gado-Gado. We don’t have it in Jakarta. Lontong Balap is food from East Java.

The sun never rise nor set. It (dis) appears ABOVE the Extended Horizon.

The family regards the dead ‘still in illness’ till the funeral time — which needs a big ceremony — months later, even years after the death took place.

Inter Cultural encounters give inspirations for all parties.

In hotels, we have both tissue and sprayer, but in regular homes generally there are only sprayers, or no both tools exists. To wash with water, traditionally we use manual tool called ‘gayung’, especially in small cities or villages.

Due to any intention: trying something new, health, diet, … Youtube? Maybe, IDK, but even long before Youtube existed, this phenomenon was already there.

I have a friend did that, although only 8 days of fasting on last Ramadan. Soedomo, a Chatolic minister in Soeharto era did that too.