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Jakarta, Indonesia
6 places worth your time in Jakarta, with what each is actually like and when to go.
The Dutch colonial old town around Fatahillah Square, with the former city hall and Cafe Batavia.
A 132-metre marble obelisk topped with gold leaf, with an observation deck and a diorama museum in the base.
Southeast Asia's largest mosque, facing a neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral across the road — deliberately sited that way.
The country's best collection of Indonesian archaeology and ethnography, across 17,000 islands' worth of cultures.
A park with pavilions for each province — dated, sprawling, and a genuinely useful overview of the archipelago.
An archipelago two hours north by boat, with beaches that Jakarta itself does not have.
