I want to talk about my beloved hometown, Jakarta. Been having this love-hate relationship with Jakarta. I hate the traffic, I hate the pollution, I hate how everyone’s rushing everything like 24 hours never enough. Hate is a strong word, I know. On the other side, it is where I was born and grew up. After long voyage away (due to my studies), I always wanting to come back. Nothing can beat the feeling of returning back to home.

Jakarta

These days, I am based in Jakarta (due to my job) and commuting almost everyday. I found Jakarta even more fascinating and got a lot of stories to tell. There are sides and corners of Jakarta that I just discovered or haven’t explored yet. Once again, I am not a storyteller nor a good writer, but I’m eager show you my hometown through pictures. I want to make this into a little insight of Jakarta, the unfiltered one. Still don’t know how I will do it, but we’ll figure that out along the way. Hopefully this will be a tiny project of mine that I can share to y’all. The real purpose of this project is still not clear, apart from me wanting to show you around. Am I gonna focus on the people, places, food, traffic? Who knows?

Car-Free Day Entertainment

Am I gonna do B&W, colors or sepia? Still don’t know too. I am definitely more comfortable doing it in colours but there’s something about black and white that makes everything intense, something je ne sais quoi. Will I talk about commuting? How to use trains, taxi, Gojek? Nothing absolute in this project, heck I don’t even know the proper title for this. I just know that it will centered around Jakarta and it will involve a lot of photography. Mainly street photography, I guess.

Oh, I am open to suggestion, on what you want to know or see in Jakarta. You can leave it in the comment section below and I’ll try my best to capture it.

Tanah Abang, Popular Stop

Rush Hour in Palmerah

Commuting by Train

See you in the next blog post.