I am from India. But living abroad. Recently visited Indonesia and for few weeks stayed at Jakarta as I was working remotely. Jakarta feels like a major indian city like bombay, pune etc. There are many good things which are better in jkt than Indian metros. 1. The roads are way better. No potholes on the high ways. Roads are built better. 2. People do not honk. Thank you for not honking. I wish Indians learn it in next 50 years. I don't know how you manage to ride bike in those traffic without honking. But it's awesome. 3. Did not see any road rage. people have civics sense. In 2 weeks I did not see road rage, fights and accidents in jakarta. Which I see everyday in india. 4. Thank you grab and go jek. Guys are awesome. They never refuse any trip. They never asked me for a tip. They never over charge me. They never scam me. In india, bike taxi always try to scam and they charge extra else they refused to go. I am comparing with india because india and indo economy are quite similar and per capita also similar level. I know there are negative things about jakarta, like traffic, pollution etc.. but that is there in india also. Jakarta night life is awesome. The malls are good. May not be like dubai. But still very good. I found the food prices to be much cheaper. I ate food at Warung and it felt like having indian food. Very similar chicken curry rice, vegetables. The staff always tried to help me and never disrespected me. Infact many time they were happy to know about my background and wanted to talk more. I see that bollywood has big influence there. Almost all the local girls whom I spoke to, listens to bollywood songs and totally up to date with bollywood happening. I was surprised and happy to see that.

Trains: I took a train from yogakarta to jakarta. I am really impressed by it. The best part is, I booked tickets 1 day in advance not 90 days. It took 7hrs. Costed me around 400k. Everything was clean. Clean toilet. Clean window. No rush. No garbage anywhere. Such a nice experience at a cheap price. In fact the train seats are very comfortable and wide. Heard there is a bullet train whosh. I will try it next time. Great to see indonesia is developing so fast. I really liked everything about jakarta except the air pollution and many open canals, sewage etc. which I think is very hard to fix. So hopefully government can manage it better. I will come back again to Indonesia for sure. It's such a big country and takes a lot of time to visit. I visited jakarta, yoga, malang, Ubud, sanur. See you soon Indonesia.