About My Hometown

About My Hometown

My hometown is Jakarta, the city that never sleeps. Jakarta is the largest city and capital of Indonesia. Formerly known as Djakarta, Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta and Batavia. Located on the northwest coast of the island of Java. Jakarta is a densely populated city with 44.283 people per square mile. Jakarta is a crowded city with an area of 661.52 km² and a population of 8.792.000. It has a metropolitan area called jabodetabek.

Jakarta has a governor, Fauzi Bowo that won the election last august. Jakarta is divided into five cities, Central, East, West, North, and South Jakarta. Jakarta is the leading commercial and industrial zone in Indonesia. And it served by the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport for the air, and Tanjung Priok Port for the sea. Nowadays Jakarta have a new transportation which is known as “Busway”, and will establish the newest one, Jakarta Monorail. All of this alternative or public transportation was built because all this time Jakarta suffers from severe traffic jams that occurs almost every days, especially in the central business district.

Since long time ago, Jakarta has often been chosen as the vanue for some international sport games. The biggest stadium in Jakarta is the Bung Karno Stadium with a capacity of 100.000 seats. Jakarta is also the home for many universities, such as University of Indonesia, and many others. There are large number of students in Jakarta is from various parts of Indonesia, many of them reside in dormitories or home-stay residences.

But despite all those good things, Jakarta also have environmental problems, such as flooding during the rainy seasons. Jakarta usually have the heavy downpour from January to May, and some rains in December and June, but mostly dry from July to November. This flooding problem occur because of many sewage pipes and waterways clogged. Besides flood problem, there’s also shortage of clean drinking water problem, and atmospheric pollution.

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