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"To be a rainbow in someone else's storm" -Maya Angelou
Jakarta. With the arrival of the rainy season, children appear - dripping in the doorways of malls and boutiques; a huddle of borrowed umbrellas, helping shoppers to their cars in the driving rain.
Approximately 6 million people travel into and out of Jakarta's central business district everyday. That is about 1/4 of Australia's population. Sitting in traffic for 2 hrs to travel 10 km is just life in Jakarta.
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Jakarta Cathedral (Indonesian: Gereja Katedral Jakarta) is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Jakarta, Indonesia. Its official name is Gereja Santa Perawan Maria Diangkat Ke Surga (from Dutch, De Kerk van Onze Lieve Vrouwe ten Hemelopneming, in English: The Church of Our Lady of Assumption). This current cathedral was consecrated in 1901 and built in the neo-gothic style, a common architectural style to build churches at that time. The Jakarta Cathedral is located in Central Jakarta near Merdeka Square and Merdeka Palace, it stands right in the front of the Istiqlal Mosque.
Monas or National Monument (Indonesia: Monumen Nasional) is a 450 ft tall monument in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The National Monument at daytime.
It represents the spirit of the Indonesians to fight for their independence. The construction began at 1961 under Soekarno and was finished at 1975 under Soeharto's reign. It was made of marble with the top consisting of a 14.5 tons flame-shaped bronze coated with 35 kilograms of gold (Wiki)