Another side of a "clean" train station

Newsstands, kiosks, "lapaks" and semi-permanent buildings around the train station almost across Jakarta were demolished recently. Traders are prohibited from selling either on the platform or on the train. Buskers and beggars could not do business there as usual. It seems that the authorities want to curb the station that had been considered messed up.

On the one hand, this is a relief for some passengers, especially those of the economy class-train commuters who are overcrowded every peak hours. The presence of traders, beggars and buskers who wade along the carriages often disturbing. On the other hand, of the human side, this is a violation againts human rights. Anybody is free to earn a living wherever they want, are they?

I took thus photo in the station of Tanjung Barat, Jakarta. This is starting point where I go to work every morning, and here is too I see the dynamics of the development of an electric train in Jakarta. A similar incident happened to almost every station in Jakarta, but the station UI, there is a story of its own, just stick around to find out.

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Newsstands, kiosks, "lapaks" and semi-permanent buildings around the train station almost across Jakarta were demolished recently. Traders are prohibited from selling either on the platform or on the train. Buskers and beggars could not do business there as usual. It seems that the authorities want to curb the station that had been considered messed up.

On the one hand, this is a relief for some passengers, especially those of the economy class-train commuters who are overcrowded every peak hours. The presence of traders, beggars and buskers who wade along the carriages often disturbing. On the other hand, of the human side, this is a violation againts human rights. Anybody is free to earn a living wherever they want, are they?

I took thus photo in the station of Tanjung Barat, Jakarta. This is starting point where I go to work every morning, and here is too I see the dynamics of the development of an electric train in Jakarta. A similar incident happened to almost every station in Jakarta, but the station UI, there is a story of its own, just stick around to find out.

Jakarta terrible flood 22 December 2012

Jakarta flood! Jakarta terrible flood! 

It's not a new story. But to me what happened on 22 December 2012 around my workplace downtown was such a view. That's the first time in my life I saw what Jakarta downtown is like in terrible flood. However, this video clip taken with my blackberry on 22 December 2012 was less dramatic than what happened the next year. 17th of January, 2013, was the worst flood we have ever had at the beginning of the year. The entire jakarta was hit by the floods, forcing me to get back home as there's no more access for the train to take me to work. The tracks were badly inundated, including the thoroughfares along Sudirman Thamrin, the heart of the city: Hotel Indonesia traffic circle and Presidential Palace.

Jakarta terrible flood 22 December 2012 might not as terrible as what happened in 2007 to those experiencing it themselves. What we hope now a total recovery. We just don't want next there will be a series of another terrible flood happening in Jakarta. Pray for Jakarta

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Jakarta flood! Jakarta terrible flood! 

It's not a new story. But to me what happened on 22 December 2012 around my workplace downtown was such a view. That's the first time in my life I saw what Jakarta downtown is like in terrible flood. However, this video clip taken with my blackberry on 22 December 2012 was less dramatic than what happened the next year. 17th of January, 2013, was the worst flood we have ever had at the beginning of the year. The entire jakarta was hit by the floods, forcing me to get back home as there's no more access for the train to take me to work. The tracks were badly inundated, including the thoroughfares along Sudirman Thamrin, the heart of the city: Hotel Indonesia traffic circle and Presidential Palace.

Jakarta terrible flood 22 December 2012 might not as terrible as what happened in 2007 to those experiencing it themselves. What we hope now a total recovery. We just don't want next there will be a series of another terrible flood happening in Jakarta. Pray for Jakarta

No door, no safety

Look at the notification there above by the train door. There's as if nothing written there as a message of safety as people prefer to hang by the door and even some children like to race to the door as stuntmen while the train starts to move  Okay, while you think this needs improvement I would like to tell you about Jokowi whom by the time I am writing this post, he has been successfully won the second runoff of the gubernatorial election in Jakarta. One of his biggest homework is how to solve problems over public transport. I can only a recommend a silly idea: build an elevator along all  lanes of  Busway to compete the free-traffic-jam train. Lol.

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Look at the notification there above by the train door. There's as if nothing written there as a message of safety as people prefer to hang by the door and even some children like to race to the door as stuntmen while the train starts to move  Okay, while you think this needs improvement I would like to tell you about Jokowi whom by the time I am writing this post, he has been successfully won the second runoff of the gubernatorial election in Jakarta. One of his biggest homework is how to solve problems over public transport. I can only a recommend a silly idea: build an elevator along all  lanes of  Busway to compete the free-traffic-jam train. Lol.