{"id":11110,"date":"2013-01-14T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T07:06:25","slug":"2645-jakarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=11110","title":{"rendered":"[2645] Jakarta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so, I was in Jakarta in the middle of December, where I began my backpacking trip across Java for three weeks. From Jakarta, I took an overnight train journey to the cheery Yogyakarta, from there on a night in Indonesia&#8217;s second largest city, Surabaya and then a more than 12 hours journey to Bali by train, ferry and bus.<\/p>\n<p>In the Indonesian capital, I had free meals twice. Once was the welcome meal paid by a friend, which was also kind enough to pick me up from the airport and send me to my hotel.<\/p>\n<p>And second was within the green compound of the National Monument for my effort to speak Bahasa Indonesia. The last time this happened, I tried to converse in French in Paris. He guy took pity on me and he gave me a free meal. That of course was not the first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am that endearing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the National Monument. This is probably one of several landmarks of Jakarta which are known abroad. Or at least, I know it. It is truly big. There is a museum underneath. Full of nationalistic propaganda but a museum nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10837\" title=\"Reward and punishment in the afterlife, at Angkor War\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. Creative Commons 3.0. Hafiz Noor Shams\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20121220Indonesia-7.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\"  border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This structure is sometimes called Sukarno&#8217;s last erection. Jakarta has several big sculptures and monuments. They are magnificent but it took a toll on the economy after awhile. The price you have to pay for grandiosity.<\/p>\n<p>But that was in the 1960s. Indonesia is now an emerging economy (again) and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so, I was in Jakarta in the middle of December, where I began my backpacking trip across Java for three weeks. From Jakarta, I took an overnight train journey to the cheery Yogyakarta, from there on a night in Indonesia&#8217;s second largest city, Surabaya and then a more than 12 hours journey to Bali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[189,1577,1578],"class_list":["post-11110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travels","tag-indonesia","tag-jakarta","tag-monas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11113,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions\/11113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}