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| 🌍 Region | Asia | |
| 🚩 Country | Indonesia | |
| 📡 Internet speed | 6 MBPS | |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌧 30°C86.23°F + 💦 Humid (72%) + 💨 2km/h = Feels like 35°C95°F | |
| 💨 Air quality | 👍 11 µg/m3 | |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz | |
| 🚕 Best taxi app | ||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Telksomel | |
| 💸 100,000 IDR in USD | USD 6.84 | |
| 🏧 ATM take out: IDR 1,000,000 | USD 68 | |
| 💸 Tipping | No | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Caffe Bene | |
| ♻️ Return rate | 0% | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 880,000 people | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Religious | |
| 💻 Online electronics shop | Bhinekka | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb | |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Lion | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Garuda | |
| airportwarm nowwarmhotclean airgood air qualityslow internetcheap cost of livinghigh humiditymany womenfriendly people | ||
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $712 / month IDR 10,402,154 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $709 / month IDR 10,356,976 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,525 / month IDR 22,279,584 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $436 / month IDR 6,365,595 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $411 / month IDR 6,000,000 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $137 / month IDR 2,000,000 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $374 / month IDR 5,461,032 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $18 / night IDR 255,786 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $0.68 IDR 10000.00 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0.50 IDR 7329.04 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $0.34 IDR 5000.00 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $0.94 IDR 13690.09 |
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Nomad-ed here for a month. A totally ok place if you have the budget for it. Coworking spaces are good, 4g everywhere, transportation is effective. Lots of things to do. I was able to find friends. Lots of international people, very few digital nomads. If you're there, consider not renting in the center (as it gets expensive fast) and being creative with places to eat to find cheap options. Be prepared to use cash unless you live in a luxury.
Stay in luxury Airbnb with all mod cons for less than $700 per month. Eat for less than $5. It’s clean and has everything you need, including great supermarkets and restaurants. Stay away from KL if you want history etc, but if you’re an expat this ticks every box.
"Don't go to Jakarta" is what people from Jakarta tell you. But you do. It can't be that bad, right? Then you arrive. Although "arriving" is a big word for getting stuck in traffic first for hours. When you do finally arrive in your apartment, you open the windows and wonder why you can't see further than 10 meters. It must be a foggy day? No, it's not fog, it's smog, and it's an every day occurrence in Jakarta, a city that is now competing with Beijing for worst air quality in the world. What's good about Jakarta? It's one of the few places in Indonesia (except maybe Bali) that's open-minded. Jakartans are friendly, helpful and warm acting as if Jakarta is still just a small Indonesian village and that's great. It's also one of the fastest growing cities in Asia. It's cosmopolitan. But all that doesn't weigh up to the negatives that is Jakarta right now. Clean up the air, fix the traffic, and Jakarta might be liveable in a decade. "Don't go to Jakarta" is what people from Jakarta tell you. They're right.
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