Jalan Jaksa is said to be a must-visit tourist destination in Jakarta. As for me who live in Jakarta and commute every working day not far from the location, and to some, Jalan Jaksa is really an exclusive are of the blonde base camp, It is for backpackers as a starting point to go anywhere around and outside Jakarta. Jalan Jaksa (abbreviated as Jl. Jaksa) is a short street approximately 400 meters long in Central Jakarta Indonesia. It is located about south of the national museum, Monas and due west of the Gondangdia main line train station. It is around 200 meters from my workplace in Thamrin area and I myself hardly ever pass it by. (Maybe once in a life time or -- now I remember -- when I tried to get a short cut to the train station)
The origin of the street name dates back to the Dutch era, when students of the Rechts Hogeschool Batavia (Jakarta Law Academy) stayed in the area while studying. This claim needs references to reliable sources from March 2007. Because of this the street officially became known as Jaksa, the Indonesian word for Prosecutor (Wikipedia) There are many hostels available here. In 1993, the Jakarta Tourism Office stated 57,201 foreign tourists had visited hotels and hostels in the street and the surrounding area, including 29,676 Europeans, 9,309 Australians, 4,215 Americans and 649 Africans.The average length of stay of foreign tourists at Jalan Jaksa was three days.
Unfortunately, it is not recommended that you come here in extreme rainy season, which is believed periodically happens once in five years. The area is affected by the floods and you cannot get out of there without folding your trousers or skirts. See the video of the terrible flood here which forced me to fold my trousers, wading across the flood to train station and seeing Jalan Jaksa was flooded too (I have the video of that part but I haven't uploaded it on YouTube)
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