Jakarta: Break it down for me.

February 23, 2005 7:42 PM

With a move to Jakarta, Indonesia on the horizon for me, I'm wondering if any MeFites can recommend particularly good web resources?

I'm looking for sites, forums, articles, anything really. Detailed street-level maps, places to eat, places to be entertained, a break down of the city. The full brief.

posted by cosmonik to travel & transportation (3 comments total)

Living in Indonesia expat site
Travel photos of Indonesia
Inside Indonesia
Destination Jakarta - IndoIndians
Travelling in Indonesia
World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Indonesia
Indonesia Travel Guide - Information and Advice
posted by i_cola at 11:27 PM on February 23, 2005

Nice set of links, i_cola. I might add that regardless of the why you are going you might check out the appropriate forum over at Dave's ESL Cafe.
posted by geekyguy at 12:28 AM on February 24, 2005

Before I moved to Uganda, I became SERIOUSLY addicted to Lonely Planet's Thorntree. It has discussion forums for virtually everywhere you could go, plus 'live abroad' and 'long term travel' boards. Post a question as specifically and as usefully as you can, and you will get a flood of interesting and accurate answers. Far and away the one source (offline and on) that did the most in preparing me for my move.

But oh yeah, in MeFi tradition, people get annoyed if you ask a repetitive question, so do a search first!
posted by Kololo at 5:54 AM on February 24, 2005