We're 5 days into the trip and we are all worried it is going too quickly!! We have a fantastic group of people and we are all enjoying learning so much from each other over our long chats stuck in traffic or at dinner or a bar. Today we took a trip around the city with EPFM staff and the President Director of EPFM Rudi. Today's trip report is from Lindsay Tuckwell from Kondinin..............
Take home points from today's tour:
- In 1605 'Black Gold' (nutmeg) was found in Indonesia.
- The original name for Jakarta was Jaya Karta then when the Dutch arrived they changed the name to Batavia. In 1942 the Japanese conquered the Dutch and changed the name of the city to Jakarta.
- Today the population of Jakarta is fluid, the are 13 million people in Jakarta Monday to Friday and then 9 million on the weekends.
- There is no subway in Indonesia because of the threat of earthquakes.
- Indonesia has 17,500 islands with 3,000 of them inhabited.
Interesting facts and figures from today's tour:
- Indonesia does not grow any wheat. Rice is grown in central Java
- There are 6 million motorbikes and 1,000 new cars a day.
- the world Muslim is the English word for Islam.
- The grand mosque of Indonesia was opened in 1945 to celebrate Indonesia's independence. It holds 200,000 people and has 666 water points and it's highest point is 6,666 feet high
- The National Monument is considered '0' point for Jakarta and everything is measured in distance from this point.
- in Indonesia there are 5 recognized religions: Muslim (85% - the largest Muslim population in the world), Protestant (5%), Catholic (5%), Hindu (2.5%) and Buddhist (2.5%).
- on Sunday mornings no cars are allowed in the central area until 12pm
- The five rules of Islam are:
1 Believe in Allah
2 Pray 5 times a day
3 Fast for a month a year
4 Give 2.5% of your income back to Islam
5 Make a pilgrimage once in a lifetime
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