We changed quite much during the last years, the style and size of clothes, the haircut or the interests…. but some things never changes: Every Photosession will end up kinda crazy..!!!
Can’t wait for the next Reunion.. Oh wait, it’s going to be this Saturday!! ^^
Museum Sejarah Jakarta
Museum Sejarah Jakarta
Last week I went to Kawah Putih with a friend of mine.
Kawah Putih Lake is one of two craters which form the Mount Patuha close to Bandung. It’s about a 2-hours drive away from Bandung, of course always depending on the traffic!
The volcano wasn’t active since about the 17th century. At least there were no significant signs about it being active.
So it is quite safe to go there for a quick look. Because of the quite dirsturbing smell of sulfur you won’t take it that long there anyway. (By the way, If you go there, you don’t need to buy the ‘op-masks’..at least I was fine without them)
The smelly water has a unique color, especially if the sky is blue it looks really beautiful there! A wonderful place to take pictures!
It’s definitely worth a visit!
Especially if you like to take pictures ^^
Soto Bu Tjondro
Cabang Alam Sutera
Ruko Jalur Sutera
Blok 29 D No.20
Jl. Alam Sutera
Tangerang Selatan
Gula Merah
Mall @ Alam Sutra
Tangerang Selatan
Sop Asam Pedas Ketrin
Ruko Jalur Sutera Timur 3A - 29, Alam Sutera Serpong
Bakmie Aloi Alam Sutera
Jl. Alam Utama, Ruko Alam Sutera Town Center 10F No 6, Alam Sutera, Tangerang
Some Kinda Coconut Jelly, served in a Coconut
I ate this delicious fried catfish at ‘Rumah Makan Pecel Lele Pak Jo’ at Serpong.
(Jl Raya Serpong KM 8,5 No 25, Tangerang, Indonesia)
Since the end of April I’m in Indonesia again – doing an Internship at a construction site in Alam Sutra (close to Jakarta).
Of course I’m spending a lot of time in Alam Sutra, Jakarta, Sentul and Karawang.
I talked with friends and their families about the problems they have in the cities and other very obvious problems.
All these problems screaming at your face “Help!”
For helping or doing something against the excisting problems you need to understand the urban planning of the cities first.
How to understand the planning of a city? It’s simple nowadays.. use Google Maps!
You take two different cities, Zoom in the same scale, there you go: Compare the cities!
After looking at these two pictures I was quite shooked first… where did the free (green) space in Jakarta go?! Both Zooms show an area of the city mostly used for living (houses or appartement houses), but in one case you have visible streets and GREEN space and in the other case you just see rooftops and asphalt!
So now to one problem in Jakarta: Every year Jakartas inhabitants suffer by floods. Not only 20 or 50cm, nooo… it’s getting way higher. How come? Look at the zooms and ask yourself; Where do you expect the water to go? How can the water be absorbed by the ground if everything is covered in asphalt? Does it in a mysterical way disappear? No it doesn’t. It certainly appears every year again in form of a brown, disgusting liquid full of rubbish in your neighbourhood or even in your house.
Maybe the normal citizen of Jakarta thinks that there is nothing he or she could do against it. Well actually there is (at least I think that there is something). In Indonesia it is more common to buy land or a house than renting something. So the ones buying a house or land do have a choice about the size of the house they are going to built. So Please if you want to make Jakarta a better place to life don’t built your house on the whole land - Safe at least 1/3 for green space. Design a backyard or something in front of the house ( No Garage or parking space! That doesn’t count as green space!), not only will it absorb some water but also your children will love to play outside and you don’t have to worry about them playing on the street!
Maybe this post will make you think about what you want and what you could change in your life for making an incredible city like Jakarta a better place to life!
Of course this also works for other cities with flood problems and too much builded space.
~ Together for a more habitable and even more incredible Jakarta!! ~
that’s really unique! I felt comfortable even though I had no idea where we had to go!
Tugu Yogyakarta
Gudeg
Of course we spent a lot of time in Jakarta – not only because of the traffic! Which is especially in Jakarta kinda unbearable! But you have to live with it! That’s Jakarta 
When we were in Indonesia there was a research result that Jakarta has the most malls worldwide!! That’s a little bit shocking and in my opinion nothing to be proud of. Because a lot of malls look nearly the same, the shops are mostly the same and well the architecture isn’t that amazing too - especially the facade and the outer presence… I don’t wanna sound that negative, the inside in nearly every Mall is great… Particularly if you’re from Hannover and you just know the ‘Ernst August Galerie’
So for the sake of being from Hannover I had to take a picture in one of the about 100 (!!!) Malls
Now back to the beauty of Jakarta !! During an AFS gathering I had the chance to see Jakarta from above… The gathering was held in one of the many skyscrapers…. what a view!!!
There are ways to ‘enjoy’ the never ending traffic… Of course you can eat (
All in all Jakarta is a special city with a lot of differences, which you either love or hate… A city full of surprises and beautiful things, if you’re willing to open your heart to this amazing city, you will get some wonderful memories
~ Jakarta, I can’t wait to see you again!! ~
Last month I went to Indonesia (as you can read from the last post)!
I had a really good time there with my boyfriend, his family, my old hostfamily and my friends.
Besides the usual (Jakarta, Sentul, Bogor) we saw a lot of different cities and Islands! Actually we were on the road nearly all the time – by feet, becak, motorbike, car, bus, train, ferry and plane!! They were some awesome 32 days!
Our Journey began in Hannover were we took the train to Amsterdam, because our flight was from Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi and then Jakarta.
The first days we stayed in Jakarta, afterwards we slept about a week in Sentul from where we went to Bogor and Jakarta (agaaaiinnn)…
We spent some money on shopping and ate a lot during the first two weeks (of course where else do you find Masakan Padang, Swikee, Ayam Goreng/Panggang, Martabak, Gado-Gado and all the other delicious meals if not in Indonesia?!)
Kue Cubit
Tahu Gejrot (Tofu)
These are some reasons why everyone of us should at least spent ONE holiday in this beautiful country!!! The food is legen…wait for it…daryyy!!!
About three weeks ago I bought a new book.
The book “Laskar Pelangi” by Andrea Hirata was published in Indonesia for the first time in 2005.
Now, eight years later the translated version is available in Germany. When I was told about the book “Die Regenbogentruppe” I didn’t knew that it was “Laskar Pelangi”. I actually saw the movie (2008) some years ago. That time I couldn’t really understand the whole movie. My Indonesian wasn’t that good at that time and with all the dialects in the movie it was quite difficult to understand everything.
Well time goes by and now I own the german Version.
I started reading the book after I finished an indian book, which I read several times during the last years.
After reading some pages of “The Rainbow Troop” I couldn’t stop reading!
It’s such a good book! The story is amazing and really emotional, you can identify with the persons in the book. It’s a wonderful story about never losing hope and fighting for the things you want.
Hirata tells the story of his childhood on a small island of Indonesia, the troubles they have getting a school education and how his class managed to save their school from closing.
