Photos & Words

Convergence

The traffic never stops in the morning rush hour. Cars, busses, motorbikes seem all to converge to an invisible destination at the end the roads. They slow down to make space to eachother. Nobody gets angry.

Tiger

On Jl Sudirman an Ojek driver waiting for customers

Go-Jek

I left the office this afternoon and hit a very busy and traffic-jammed Jl. Sudirman. This bus appeared behind the Go-Jek driver (a smartphone app mototaxi) and I liked the three guys cheering the behind.

One against many

I cycle to work but do not see many cyclist commuters on my way to and from the office in Jakarta. Look at the photo. That is why: no bicycle lanes, no space to cycle, too many cars and too many motorbikes choking the streets and roads of Jakarta. We need more space for bicycles commuters. That will help to reduce traffic, make the air a bit cleaner, keep people more fit.

Buka puasa or breaking the fasting

We are  is the Ramadan. Every day here in Jakarta at around 6pm these little food stalls appear in the streets. They were hidden during the day. Invisible to people. Suddendly, as the sunset approaches, they are there all over the city. The people who are fasting gather around them waiting the signal from the mosques that the time has arrived to break the fasting.

Catching a Kopaja

Kopaja mini busses stop for just few seconds under the pederstain bridge near Senayan. People have to jump off and jump in sometimes when the bus is still moving. They cannot really stop as the road is very congested in the morning.