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Illustration of a Jakarta street in warm orange light, with buses and orange auto-rickshaws passing white buildings with tiled roofs, palm trees and overhead wires under a blue sky

Jakarta

Jakarta

A stop in Jakarta on the way to somewhere else, remembered for its scale, its heat, and a city that seemed orange under a bright blue sky.

Published 1991-07-01 · Updated 2026-11-09

When I lived in Singapore, we travelled down to Jakarta en route to somewhere else. Where we were heading escapes me, but I have a vivid recollection of the scale and the heat of the city.

My memory paints it orange, under a bright blue sky, with white buildings all around.