101 Things to do in Jakarta

[kingwilly]

#37 Attend the "I Love Bazaar Jakarta British Invasion" Shopping Experience

More than 100 selected local brands and online shops Indonesia from fashion, leather goods, kids, home living, unique findings, creative arts, handcrafts, foods and beverage. We bring a unique filled experience with more varieties and new collection.

Organized by ALL ACCESS JAKARTA (Activation Agency)

Follow our twitter: @ilovebazaarjkt & Instagram: ilovebazaarjkt
PIN BB: 2A36DC6C

Location: Grand Indonesia Shopping Town West Mall - level 5
Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.facebook.com/ILoveBazaarJakarta

[kingwilly]

#38 - Attend the 26th Annual hogfest



This is a fun night for all Harley enthusiast. But the main reason is to help raise money for children born with Cleft lip and cleft palate birth defects.

All sponsorship money is used 100% for surgeries performed on children. If you or your club want to sponsor contact me for more details.

If you need tickets for the event contact me as well too.
https://www.facebook.com/events/659916397415007/

[kingwilly]

#39 Attend the Indonesian Rugby 10th Year Anniversary dinner with guests Joe Roff and Justin 'Sambo' Sampson



Indonesian Rugby is coming up on 10 years of development and progress here in this country on Saturday May 10, and to celebrate the Union's first decade, the "Indonesian Rugby 10th Anniversary Dinner" is being hosted on Saturday May 24 at a five-star hotel in central Jakarta.

Special Guest at the Dinner will be former Wallaby winger/centre/fullback, Joe Roff who was a member of the 1999 Rugby World Cup Champion Team, plus he played an instrumental role in the Wallabies defeat of the 2001 British & Irish Lions. These days Joe is an accomplished Dinner Speaker and he is sure to entertain all those in attendance along with Dinner Emcee, Justin 'Sambo' Sampson. Qantas will assist Indonesian Rugby in getting Joe and Sambo up to Jakarta.

Tickets are on sale now for Rp.1,100,000 for a single ticket or "Tables of 10" for a special price of Rp.10,000,000 each (save Rp.1,000,000). For information on how to book your tickets please see the attached poster for contact information.

Included in your ticket price is a five star buffet dinner, free-flow drinks sponsored by Fez, fabulous entertainment, wonderful raffle prizes, superb auction items (list of these items will be released nearer to the event) and a great way to socialise with friends and a chance to make new friends or business contacts.

[kingwilly]

or if Cricket is more your thing...

#40 - Attend the Annual JCA Cricket Dinner with Merv Hughes

[kingwilly]

#41 - Attend an Outdoor Performance





Nature’s theater:[at]Visitors watch indigenous Dayak dancers from Kalimantan collaborate with fellow dancers from Jakarta and Surakarta, Central Java, in a performance of Dedy Lutan’s Hutan Pasir Sunyi (Silent Sand Forest) at the Bogor Botanical Gardens on Tuesday. Dedy chose the botanical gardens as the setting for the performance, as it was reminiscent of the conservation forest in East Kalimantan that inspired him to choreograph the dance.(JP/Theresia Sufa)
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[kingwilly]

#42 - Run a Marathon


Second Jakarta Marathon
set for October

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Jakarta | Mon, May 12 2014, 8:07 AM
The date for the second Jakarta Marathon has been set, with tens of thousands of participants expected to enliven the country’s biggest run.

Deputy Tourism and Creative Economy Minister and Jakarta Marathon chairman Sapta Nirwandar said that the organizer aimed to attract 15,000 runners this year, up from 10,000 last year, for the second Jakarta Marathon, which is set to be held on Oct. 26, starting from the National Monument (Monas).

“When we target 15,000 participants, around 50,000 people might show up on the day. It will not only be good for tourism in the capital but also for the economy. Hotels, restaurants, the transportation sector and shopping malls will benefit from the event,” he said during the prelaunch of the Jakarta Marathon 2014 recently.

The run will be divided into several categories, namely full marathon (42.195K), half-marathon (21K), 10K and maratoonz (children’s sprint).

Second Jakarta Marathon set for October | The Jakarta Post

[kdk]

Nice thread. Funny, after 12 years of working a couple of weeks a month in south Sumatra, looking at your list I really haven't seem much of Jakarta. Monas, blok m and a couple others but the traffic has gotten so bad I mostly head straight back to Bangkok when I leave lampung. Or end up at Eastern Promise meeting Jakarta friends and suffocating as the cig smoke builds up over the evening.

[kingwilly]

Or end up at Eastern Promise meeting Jakarta friends and suffocating as the cig smoke builds up over the evening.

I know the feeling.

Mind you, the Friday crowd is always a good one.

[kingwilly]

#43 - Visit a Chinese Temple


Jakarta allegedly has over 140 Chinese Temples, many of them are in the West and North where the Chinese communities can be found.

A list of a few common ones with addresses can be found here.
Jakartaexpat – Expatriate Guides to Jakarta Buddhist Temple

[Drainpipe]

but the traffic has gotten so bad I mostly head straight back to Bangkok

blimey, it must be bad

[kingwilly]

#44 - UFC



Desi Rahayu has such a lust for fighting that not even her mother’s disapproval could dissuade her from stepping into the cage to become Indonesia’s first female fighter in an upcoming mixed-martial arts (MMA) contest.Singapore-based ONE Fighting Championship (ONE FC), which claims to be Asia’s largest MMA organization with a 90 percent market share, is returning to Jakarta with its Era of Champions tournament scheduled for June 14 at the Mata Elang International Stadium (MEIS) in Ancol, North Jakarta.Desi will be one of four local fighters in the ring.

An MMA contest provides fierce fighting with the participants risking bloody injuries. However, that has not deterred Desi.“I have a lust for seeing somebody bleed. I have an indulgence for throwing punches, although as a consequence I have to take the blows as well,” she said after a workout session at the Jakarta Muay Thai Camp on Wednesday.

She said her mother would not have given consent for her to fights if she had told her about her fight plans.“One day when I watched an MMA [bout] on TV, I told my mother that I wanted to be there someday, and she said ‘never’,” said the 23-year-old fighter.

During the workout, Desi sparred with a male fighter, demonstrating to the media her skills in boxing, judo and grappling.

Joining the small audience was Loren Mack, the director of ONE FC’s public relations.

Mack said that they had monitored Desi before deciding that she was eligible for a ONE FC contest.

“We had heard about her grappling skills and she has been training in MMA. You know 90 percent of the fights in MMA are on the ground and she is great on the ground. She is the best among the few female fighters,” Mack said.

ONE FC is partnering with entertainment company 7Kings Entertainment to organize the June 14 contest.CEO Victor Cui expressed his enthusiasm about bringing the contest back to Indonesia

.“Our Indonesian fans have been eagerly awaiting our return to Jakarta and we are excited to be able to bring world-class MMA back to the capital city of Indonesia,” he said in a press release.

Jakarta is one of six cities hosting ONE FC’s 2014 season, which comprises 16 fights, with the other contest venues being Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Pnom Penh, Taipei and Singapore.Desi will take on Ella Tang, the Malaysian kickboxing champion, in a bantamweight three-round bout.“

"I have watched her fights on video. She is good at stand-up fights,” she said.She said she had been training intensively for the past month, working out on her stand-up skills.Desi initially developed her martial arts skills in judo.

She represented Jakarta in the National Games twice, with her best achievement being a silver medalist in 2008.[at]She took up a new challenge by participating in a local grappling competition in 2010

.She said she had since become addicted to MMA fighting and joined the Tiger Sharks Club in 2011.“I’m proud to represent Indonesia in an Asia-level tournament,” she said


Desi Rahayu first Indonesian female cage fighter | The Jakarta Post

[kingwilly]

#45 - Learn How to make some Cocktails

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[tentoesup]

Good stuff, thanks for posting.

Making me think of a trip to Jakarta on my next excursion....

[kingwilly]

#46 - An Evening at the Opera


Sat, 21st Jun

Aula Simfonia Jakarta will present an evening program of opera works packed into “An Evening at the Opera” with opera overtures, choruses and opera arias from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Bizet’s Carmen, Verdi’s Rigoletto, La Traviata and Puccini’s Turrandot. For more information or reservation, contact +62-21 6586 7808

[kingwilly]

#47 - Herring Fest

4th Annual INA Herring Party
Wed, 25th Jun





INA's annual Herring Party, renamed ‘Herring Fest’ will be even larger than in previous years. Come and sample some traditional Dutch food and meet old friends. Tickets IDR 350,000 (members) IDR 450,000 (non members) For more information email [email protected]

[mosses11]

# 9

Bloc M

white shirt please!

[kingwilly]

#48 - Pop up Night Market

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[grasshopper]

What about Jalan Surabaya Market? Is it still going? Where you go to buy back the stuff some bugger pinched from your home during a break in.

[kingwilly]

What about Jalan Surabaya Market? Is it still going? Where you go to buy back the stuff some bugger pinched from your home during a break in.

Oh yes, of course.

#49 - Browse Antiques up and down Jalan Surabaya Market.

[david44]

Such a fascinating vibrant atmosphere,hard to tear one self away for 53.684 momets or is it still the rabid sweaty sewer withthird world human rights religeous bigotry warm Guiness that remnd one of aBelfast message parlour

[david44]

#48 - Pop up Night Market

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Mmm tents these were called latrines when I went camping or homes for refugees at Sangatte

[kingwilly]

Mmm tents these were called latrines when I went camping or homes for refugees at Sangatte

And funnily enough tents can be used for more than just latrines, David, go figure.

[kingwilly]

#49 - Visit the Motor show



The 22nd Indonesia International Motor Show (IIMS), one of Asia’s biggest automobile shows, kicked off on Thursday at the JIExpo in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.

During the exhibition, which will run until Sept. 28, various new cars were displayed by internationally recognized carmakers, ranging from Japan-based companies, such as Honda, Mazda, Toyota and Mitsubishi, to Europe-based companies, such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

The government claims the event proves that the country’s automotive industry still has great potential for growth.

The 22nd Indonesia International Motor Show | The Jakarta Post

[VocalNeal]

101? I never got past mongering, golf and the Hash. I guess my favourite though would be riding a motorcycle out of Jakarta.

Then again I lived in Sumatra!

[kingwilly]

101? I never got past mongering, golf and the Hash. I guess my favourite though would be riding a motorcycle out of Jakarta.

Then again I lived in Sumatra!

Hash, I think I forgot Hashing. That'll give me #50....