Jakarta International Airport (Soekarno-Hatta) is the main airport serving the greater Jakarta area on the island of Java, Indonesia.The airport is named after the first President of Indonesia, Soekarno, and the first vice-president, Mohammad Hatta. The airport is often called Cengkareng by Indonesian. Its IATA code, CGK is originated from the word Cengkareng, a subdistrictContinue reading “Jakarta Airport”
Category Archives: Indonesia
Indonesian archipelago
With 18,110 islands, 6,000 of them inhabited, Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. About 240 million people live in this fourth most populous country in the world — after China, India and the USA — and by far the largest country in Southeast Asia. Indonesia also has the largest Muslim population in theContinue reading “Indonesian archipelago”
Taxi service Jakarta
Landed at Jakarta International airport. As usual there are always a risk with taxi hazzles at large airports. However, right after customs you find taxi desks who arrange for transport in a safe and organized manner and at affordable rates. SilverBird/BlueBird
Indonesia
Spread across a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population and Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Ethnically it is highly diverse, with more than 300 local languages. The people range from rural hunter-gatherers to a modern urban elite. Sophisticated kingdoms existed before the arrival of the Dutch,Continue reading “Indonesia”