Living on the Edge
October 1, 2002
Tonya Cairns* FORGET the traffic jams this city is famous for. Forget Jakarta from the backseat of a Bluebird taxi. Forget the ear aching cough of a bajaj. Forget fighting pickpockets on public buses. You haven't seen Jakarta until you've put your life in the hands of something greater and climbed onto the back seat of an ojek motorcycle taxi.
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*The writer is a student from Monash University currently interning with TEMPO.