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Jakarta

valentineuwakwe:
my Muslim brothers will not shout here o....but am asking, can a Christian be elected also in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, UAE or even Iran?

Of course they can be elected in Indonesia. Well in fact, the number of Christians in Indonesia is one of the largests in Asia. Its Christian population is 4 times larger than the whole Singapore's population.

In the current cabinet of Indonesian government, there are 7 ministers with Christian background. And hundreds of Indonesian mayor, governor and people's representatives are from various religions beside Islam.

Nnemuka:
story...
Indonesia is the worst country for a Nigerian to visit.
from Immigration to citizens of that country treat Nigerians with disdain.
A client of mine was recently harrassed and locked up simply by being a Nigerian passport holder. he was supposed to return on the 9th of August but as we speak now the last I spoke with him he told me he was held by immigration and missed d flight.

Crazy people and country

It is because almost 99% of Nigerians visiting the country either involved in illegal drug trade or "scam industry". Many of them use the country as their base home in scamming.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13gUXbpu2k

Their capital city is just fine. It offers lots of opportunities, while some of you decided to run illegal busines there instead

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13gUXbpu2k

Lagos needs to learn about BRT from Jakarta. It operates the most expansive BRT system on the earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13gUXbpu2k

Jakarta from street level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KBkMFCI2a4

Jakarta vs Singapore

Singapore is still way ahead of Jakarta, but it can catch up due to higher growth �

Carlyboi:
Indonesia too?not even Singapore or Hongkong not Thailand or Malaysia or Vietnam .....we don suffer for this country going to Indonesia is like going to countries like Pakistan and just slightly better then Cambodia and myannmar!a populate country with a weak economy and infrastructure!smh

https://www.nairaland.com/5199519/tale-two-giants-indonesia-nigeria

I cannot believe how low you imagined Indonesia as a place to live in. You even compared Indonesia with Pakistan or Vietnam.

Indonesia is the largest economy in Southeast Asia with its infrastructure quality is better than Vietnam or Thailand. Its education is also better, and one thing for sure, as a society they are way more peaceful.

RIP to the guy who fled from the officer..

tylann:
Is Indonesia rich in oil like nigeria

It used to be rich in oil, but now more than half of its oil consumption are imported.

gallivant:
Lol

It's Lagos or possibly Dar!

The pic is definitely Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. And that was an old photo of Jakarta, maybe taken at around 2002-2005 as there are many buildings that are missing in the photo.

You can see the current development of Jakarta below

https://www.nairaland.com/5199519/tale-two-giants-indonesia-nigeria#78755293

It has a per capita income of US$17,500 now in nominal or US$43,000 in PPP

Jakarta's per capita income now stands at US$ 17,500 while the country's GDP per capita is US$ 4,000. The average salary in Jakarta now is US$ 11,000 annually https://www.payscale.com/research/ID/Location=Jakarta/Salary.

This article was published in 28 September 2010, or almost a decade ago. But now it seems like the gap of the development between the two countries get wider.

How Indonesia overtook Nigeria
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-11399866

I had never before been to Jakarta, the chaotic and teeming capital of the sprawling Indonesian archipelago.

But, as the plane dodged in and out between the clouds, there it lay below. And just as I had been told it would, it looked like my former home - Nigeria.

"Indonesia and Nigeria?" I'd protested to the friend who first suggested the comparison to me some weeks earlier.

"They're 7,000 miles apart. One's Africa, one's Asia. There's no comparison to make."

It was late 2003, and I was flying in from Singapore - a smart, modern Asian city, now two hours behind me to the north. I'd just been appointed Asia editor for the AFP news agency, after four years as its Nigeria bureau chief.

Lagos, my former home, is Africa's megacity, the country's hustling, bustling, trading capital. It is noisy, sometimes violent but pulsing with life.

From its crowded waterfront districts to the low-rise slums inland, it hums with activity; people making deals, making money, taking a chance and just getting by.

Looking down out of the plane's window, I took in the airport below.

"Ok, so it looks like Lagos," I thought.

Then, emerging minutes later from the plane, I settled into my taxi for the long drive into the city centre.

When we stopped at a crossroads, crowds of noisy children emerged as they would in Nigeria to hawk their wares, offering us everything from spicy foods to soft drinks, typewriter covers to newspapers.

Both Indonesia and Nigeria, my guidebook told me, are the giants of their region, home to tens of millions of people. Both were formed as one nation by Europeans around 1900. Both were governed by the colonial system of "indirect rule". Both once made money from palm oil, and later discovered oil and gas.

At independence, the standards of living in the two countries were comparable on most measures. And since independence, both have suffered three decades of military misrule and corruption.

Nigeria and Indonesia in figures (2010)

Gross national income, per capita
Nigeria: $1,160
Indonesia: $2,010

Gross domestic product
Nigeria: $207.12 billion
Indonesia: $510.73 billion

Population below poverty line
Nigeria: 70%
Indonesia: 17.8%
Sources: UN, World Bank, CIA World Factbook

Jakarta today is almost on par with other East Asian cities like Seoul, Beijing and Taipei albeit still poorer than mentioned cities.