After spending my short wasted underage life in Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta, I am glad to say I'm finally a step ahead on doing whatever the f*&k i want and be whoever i want to be in my life. I figured life will be too dull if i just spend it on one place and one place only. So I'll be moving, not far, not exotic, but certainly out and alone. I face living alone with fear and doubt, something to be expected my age. I'm human, im allowed to be scared don't you think so. But throughout my life i will always remember who i am, and where im from; Jakarta. Everybody who lives here will someday develop their own personal love/hate relationships with this town. It ain't sleepless like New York, it ain't romantic like Paris, it ain't fucking awesome like Amsterdam. But we have our perks and quirks of being Jaks. See the good thing about Jakarta is; it's always beautiful the way you put it to be, it'll be the kind of town you need to feel and live for yourself. Jakarta is simply relevant beauty by different eyes.
Even after living here for all my life (yes, still a short one), i can never put Jakarta in a conclusion of one word. Because really, even i haven't seen every part of it. We are very very diverse, economically speaking though. Yes, culturally to but Jakarta culture cannot be described on traits alone. But fortunately the people can, in one word also : Prestige. No exceptions, the rich and the poor, young and old. Jaks are highly sensitive when in comes to style and good name. Its almost sickening, but hey they're my people. So basically my town is diverse, its not the kind of diverse that makes New York or Singapore unique though. It's the kinda diverse that causes hate crimes, and racial categorizing. All the while everything seems to be in place. We have everything a metropolitan needs; working class white collars, suburbian housewifes, useless politicians, rowdy anarchist youths, an artist community, last but not least hipsters. Jakarta is just like a school yard, we have cliques and trends. Every clique has their own territory may it be clubs, churchs, or even streetsides. Every nook and cranny of Jakarta is bound to be filled with some sort of group loitering about.
So this is what i'll be leaving: Everything anybody could hate about society rolled into one kebab. Surprisingly enough i can't figure any town i would love more than this. I can't possibly think anywhere could fit my lifestyle except here.
Even after living here for all my life (yes, still a short one), i can never put Jakarta in a conclusion of one word. Because really, even i haven't seen every part of it. We are very very diverse, economically speaking though. Yes, culturally to but Jakarta culture cannot be described on traits alone. But fortunately the people can, in one word also : Prestige. No exceptions, the rich and the poor, young and old. Jaks are highly sensitive when in comes to style and good name. Its almost sickening, but hey they're my people. So basically my town is diverse, its not the kind of diverse that makes New York or Singapore unique though. It's the kinda diverse that causes hate crimes, and racial categorizing. All the while everything seems to be in place. We have everything a metropolitan needs; working class white collars, suburbian housewifes, useless politicians, rowdy anarchist youths, an artist community, last but not least hipsters. Jakarta is just like a school yard, we have cliques and trends. Every clique has their own territory may it be clubs, churchs, or even streetsides. Every nook and cranny of Jakarta is bound to be filled with some sort of group loitering about.
