Jakarta

my fav buiding..

Jakarta old Quarter













Menara Jakarta ( Under construction )



The Menara Jakarta was intended as a 558m high reinforced concrete and steel tower (provisionally the world's tallest structure) incorporating offices, communication facilities and mast, tourist observation areas and a revolving restaurant. A 240,000sq m podium, incorporating retail facilities and parking surrounds the base.

Bali

still Bali

Surabaya

Maybe my Pakistani friends Guts know this city and this city is where indonesiana another Indonesia member in this forum live btw





Makasar





Medan







Lombok Island

Fantastic pics

Didn't know Indonesia had such great skyscrapers. Beautiful skyline indeed.

Thanx for sharing them with us

Is this sculpture depicting the play "Ramayana"? or is it related to the Majapahit empire?

I went to Bali around 10 days after the blasts. Everything was less then half its usual price! and it was very safe too, the police force was in every street! and I had basically all of Kuta beach to myself!

Excellent Pics! Thankx for sharing!

in my future traveling plans, i now include these places

Excellent pictures, its really good to see a Muslim nation so developed..

Bali's beach resorts look so beautiful !

WoW Beautifull I always thought Indonesia is Like Afghanistan how wrong was I

That really proves that you just came out of the cave

I wanna visit this place
Great Pics Java

BTW, Java, what is the name of that building? Your fav building.

Yes, I've been to Surabaya twice. It is a cool city with a lot of nice malls and places to just hang out.

Actually, I am an American (and white). Do you post at Skyscrapercity.com or just get the pics from there? My username there is Yamauchi.

Here are two pictures of Jakarta I took:





Some rural Java (around Bromo) scenery:



I am planning to return to Indonesia this summer. A truly wonderful country. Maybe if any of you are in Jakarta next summer we could meet up at a mall or something.

The Arjuna Wijaya Statue was unveiled in August 1987, near the Air Mancur intersection on the southern tip of Jalan Merdeka Barat in Central Jakarta near the Monas Square. The following is taken from the item "Koki's Corner," printed in The Indonesia Times newspaper dated August 4, 1987.

The statue depicts Arjuna going to war in a chariot driven by God Krishna. The chariot is driven by eight strong horses. It brings to mind the famous Sanskrit poem the Bhagawad Gita (Song of the Lord) which is incorporated into the great Mahabharata epic. The Gita (as it is often called) is the major devotional book of both popular and devotional Hinduism. It consists of a long dialog between the God Krishna and Arjuna, a son of Pandu, the father of the famous Pandawa brothers, just before the great battle of Kurukshetra. Arjuna sees many of his kinsmen and friends in the ranks of the opposing Kaurawa army and is horror-stricken at the thought of the impending bloodbath. He declares that he would rather die than kill those he loves, but Krishna, his charioteer, states that man's soul is immortal and independent of the body; it neither kills nor is killed. The soul partakes in neither the actions nor the sufferings of the body. Gradually Krishna develops a series of approaches to life and destiny, alternate paths to human salvation, the most important of which is the karma-yoga (salvation through the selfless performance of action appropriate to one's station in life). Convinced by Krishna, Arjuna joins the battle and destroys the enemy. The Gita, with its almost universal appeal, has been much translated. The Rp. 300 million statue is made of ceramic and has been donated by a private ceramic industry.


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I am really impressed by these pictures! I hope that indonesia continues to florish, we should look towards indonesia as an inspiration, a muslim country with its culture surviving along side development, ie one is not coming at the expense of the other.

thanks for all you comments bro..

@ valkyrie

it seem coocoocal had answer your qustion, and he's right btw

@ samid

name those buiding from above til below :
- first pic and second pic is the same building name Wisma BNI
- third pic : Wisma Artha Graha
- Standart chartered building
- Jakarta Stock Exchange Building ( JSX ), once had bombed by Terrorist
- Batavia building ( Batavia is Jakarta old name )
- Deutsche Bank
- wisma Bank Mandiri

'and btw Wisma = Building, Menara = Tower

@ guts

What all my guess wrong !! LOL, and yep i got this pics from Skyscrapercity.com from member name JOKO, offcourse I Know your nick and my nick on that forum is "WonkCerbon" since Cirebon is my hometown and my fav city btw thanks for your pics bro..especially that Bromo pic.

Great pics .. Indonesia being in the Far East is filthy Green .. Nature's gerat beauty ..

I hope the best for Indonesia.

A very small sample of Indonesia's diversity:

Oseng children in East Java



School children at a holy shrine in Surabaya, dedicated to the first Yemeni to introduce Islam to the Madurese people



Young men relaxing in a "slum" in Surabaya.



Madurese men mending the fishing nets



Tenggerese (Hindu) farmers smile having their picture taken

Noce pics, advance and full of tradition.