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Jakarta

Jakarta , officially known as the Special Capital Region of Jakarta , is the capital and most populous city of the Republic of Indonesia.

Located on the northwest coast of the world's most populous island of Java, Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political center, with a population of 10,075,310 . The official metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabek (a name formed by combining the initial syllables of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi), is the second largest in the world, yet the metropolis' suburbs still continue beyond it. Its unofficial built-up (metropolitan) area covers Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi, Karawang, Serang, Purwakarta, Sukabumi and Subang regencies (123 districts), also including Tangerang, Bekasi, Tangerang Selatan, Depok, Serang and Cilegon Municipalities, which in total were home to 30,214,303 inhabitants census.

Established in the fourth century, the city became an important trading port for the Kingdom of Sunda. It was the de facto capital of the Dutch East Indies (known as Batavia at that time). Today, the city has continued as the capital of Indonesia since the country's independence was declared in 1945. The city is currently the seat of the ASEAN Secretariat as well as important financial institutions such as the Bank of Indonesia, the Indonesia Stock Exchange, and the corporate headquarters of numerous Indonesian companies and multinational corporations. Jakarta's business opportunities, as well as its potential to offer a higher standard of living, attract migrants from all over Indonesia, making the city a melting pot of many communities and cultures.

Jakarta is listed as an alpha- global city in the 2012 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC) research. Based on survey by Brooking Institute, in 2011 economic growth in Jakarta ranked 17th among the world's 200 largest cities, a jump from its 2007 ranking of 171. Jakarta has grown more rapidly than Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, and Bangkok.

Jakarta (band)

Jakarta is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade.

Jakarta (disambiguation)

Jakarta may refer to:

  • Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia
  • Jakarta Project, a software project
  • Jakarta (band), a former Yugoslav rock band
  • Jakarta (DJ), an electronic music band known for the hit "One Desire"
  • Jakarta (mango), a named mango cultivar from Florida.
  • Jakarta!, 2012 novel by Christophe Dorigné-Thomson
Jakarta (DJ)

Jakarta is a French EDM, and Electro house production team, consisting of Danny Wild, Alan Pride, David Kane, and Dave King. Their work is available on Hypetraxx Records, and has been remixed by Mondotek. Their music is in the tribal house style, but with a childlike voice. Their most relevant tracks are "Superstar" and "One Desire", which did well on the French charts in 2008.

Their first single, "One Desire", was distributed by Airplay Records for France, Universal ( Belgium, Spain), Dancestreet ( Germany), Sony BMG ( Mexico), TMC Nordic ( Scandinavia), Magic Records ( Poland), and Teta ( Israel). "One Desire" stayed at number 2 on the charts for four months in 2008.

The group created two 3D animated video clips with characters that are mostly babies. Their main character is Totosse, a dancing baby with a red Mohawk haircut.

Jakarta (mango)

The 'Jakarta' mango is a named mango cultivar that originated in south Florida.

Usage examples of "jakarta".

Savannah von Hopf was aboard a recent flight to Jakarta via Hong Kong.

Rose had to resign herself to the knowledge that no matter what happened, Jakarta was as far as she was going to go.

They were here, they were visible, they were ready to evacuate Ken and Savannah immediately to Jakarta should they appear.

New Reformasi government in Jakarta had made the city a functioning anarchy.

At the moment there is a great deal of pressure from Jakarta, so who knows?

Street thugs hired out of the slums of Jakarta and dressed in government uniforms.

Mitchell William Winters, probably residing in Jakarta, probably with a U.

And having to sit on information that he knew would have saved lives in Bali, in Jakarta, and elsewhere .

If we want to win the hearts and minds of people in Caracas, Jakarta, Nairobi, or Tehran, dispersing ballot boxes will not be enough.

And whether Jules should go all the way back to Jakarta to get that surveillance equipment they wanted.

On that date, President Gerald Ford and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, concluded an official visit to Jakarta and flew to Hawaii.

And clearly, an Indonesian invasion that began a few hours after Kissinger had stepped off the tarmac at Jakarta airport must have been planned and readied several days before he arrived.

State Department officials, bound by law, were likewise bound to conclude that United States aid to the generals in Jakarta would have to be cut off.

They had barely closed the door of their first hotel room in Jakarta before they were stripping off their clammy, wrinkled airplane clothes and falling as one between cool, clean laundered-to-be-defiled sheets.

They could fly one of those copters away to Bangkok or get it down to Jakarta or Singapore and get a ton of money for it.