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Special Capital Region of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) is the capital city of Indonesia. Jakarta is the only city in Indonesia that has province-level status. Jakarta is located in the Tatar Sundanese, the northwestern part of the island of Java. Was once known as Sunda Kelapa (before 1527), White Rose (1527 1619), Batavia / Batauia, or Jaccatra (1619-1942), Jakarta Tokubetsu Shi (1942-1945) and Djakarta (1945-1972). Internationally Jakarta also has nicknames like J-Town, [7] or more popular The Big Durian because the city is considered a comparable New York City (Big Apple) in Indonesia. [1] [8]
Jakarta has an area of approximately 661.52 sq km (ocean: 6977.5 km²), with a population of 10,187,595 inhabitants (2011). [9] The metropolitan area of Jakarta (Jabodetabek) of about 28 million people, [6] is the largest metropolitan in Southeast Asia or second in the world.
As a center of business, politics, and culture, Jakarta is home to the headquarters of state-owned enterprises, private companies, and foreign companies. It is also the seat of the government agencies and the ASEAN secretariat office. Jakarta is served by two airports, namely Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Airport, as well as a sea port at Tanjung Priok.
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