Jakarta Info

[aakumu]

Hi bro,
For your info, more cost for us to travel to Indonesia.

New airport tax tariffs start March 1

The Jakarta Post , JAKARTA | Fri, 02/20/2009 8:41 AM | Headlines

Government has approved the proposal submitted by the state-owned aviation operator, PT Angkasa Pura II, to increase service tariffs at domestic and international flight terminals.

Transportation Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal said that the implementation of the new tariffs will start next month. New international flight tariffs will start on March 1, and domestic ones on March 15.

"Domestic flight tariffs will only increase by Rp 10,000 on average, but for international flights by up to Rp 50,000," he said in a statement.

Angkasa Pura has also received an approval on the adjustment from the Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI).

Many Indonesian airports have been criticized for their lack of proper and decent facilities and access points. Tariff adjustment is hoped to be followed by more improvements in facilities, such as to provide better public toilets, musholla (prayer rooms) and other facilities and to improve accessibility.

Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport's domestic flight tariff has increased to Rp 40,000 (US$3.5) from Rp 30,000, while the international flight tax tariff is up to Rp 150,000 from Rp 100,000.

The domestic flight tariff at Halim Perdanakusuma, the second city aiport, goes up to Rp 30,000 from Rp 25,000 and international flight taxes go to Rp 80,000 from Rp 75,000.

Jakarta's domestic and international tariff increases are the highest compared to other cities, ranging from Rp 5,000 to Rp 10,000 for domestic taxes, and from Rp 5,000 to Rp 50,000 for international taxes.

Aceh's Sultan Iskandarmuda Airport recorded the highest international tariff increase outside Jakarta, rising by Rp 40,000.

Medan's Polonia Airport in North Sumatera, Palembang's SM Badaruddin Airport in South Sumatera, Padang's Minangkabau in West Sumatera, Aceh's Sultan Iskandarmuda in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and Bandung's Husein Sastranegara all have domestic flight tariffs increased by Rp 10,000. (hdt)

My humble two cents.

[Exhausted]

My turn to contribute. Went to try Sun Executive to check out the place, and needed a good massage anyway. First thought, place is damn hard to access if not arriving by car. It is connected to a mall that closes very early and walking from the main road, I had to use the mall's lifts and arrive at a car park on the 5th floor then walk to another lift and stumble upon it on the 8th floor. Very inconvenient to access.

Place is indeed upmarket and new and rate about 8.5/9 out of 10, and a lot of mainland chinese patronising. Prob cos there are a lot of Chinese gals there and counter staff keep pushing them. I saw a few and standard only about 6 and milf type so gave it a miss. If I want Chinese gals I would go cheong in China. Bros to used to China market, this place cannot compare in size and establishment but it is very good for Jkt standard. The larger rooms have nice round bathtub and tv etc etc can have 2 gals or 2 customers together and bathe together. Not sure how it works cos the pricing is 90mins so if we spend time bathing together etc then not much massage time left. Bottom line, depends on what you want.

Chose the smallest room and asked for local gal cos just wanted clean massage. Counter mammy helpful and speak good chinese, and said arrange pure massage for me and said to tip 100k standard. Went to room for shower and waited for gal to come and nothing to write about her except massage skill 8.5. Ask me want hj and I said no and she said usually customers want and that she does not do other services. bargained from 300k to 200k hj and released.

Total bill was 200k for massage plus 42k tax and 200k hj. Was supp to pay 100k for facilities/cover charge and makan but they didn't charge me. Anyway, I didn't use the facilities at all.

Originally Posted by mongerx

Around Travel Hotel there are lots of options, but the better the facilities the more it will cost.

Directly across from Travel is Kimochi. Kimochi will have some younger girls who are good for service and some older girls who can give good to fantastic straight massage. The straight massage always comes with the Patik Mangga service here. Best is go to the reception on the second floor and bluntly tell them what you are looking for. Very good attitudes here, but the facilities are dated and run down. Price will be quite cheap for a 90 minute straight massage, and a 50K tip on top is expected.

Further down Mangga Besar is Grand Comfort. This place is more upmarket with a Zen kind of design. It's quite comfortable and nice here. Once again the clean and naughty girls are mixed here. Also, this place seems to have quite a lot of attractive large breasted girls. Here th facilities are quite nice if not large. Also, I would explain to the booking reception you want a girl who gives a good strong massage and you don't need the Main Main. I forget the prices but this will shouldn't cost more than 200K after tip (but don't quote me on that and it could cost more if you go for the upgraded rooms.)

Not on Jalan Mangga Besar but a short taxi ride away is Sands Executive club. This health center is on the 7th floor of the Mangga Dua Square Mall on Guning Sahari, This place is pretty much clean massage only (although more and more girls are doing FS for stupid guys offering 500K) Here the price is quite reasonable and the facilities were great 3 years ago when it was new. But now it is getting a bit run down. This is my usual choice for good straight massage. Two good numbers to try are 99 and 72.

Also, not on Jalan Mangga Besar but close by in a taxi is Sun City Excutive Club and hotel on Hayam Wuruk in a new shopping center near the Jayakarta Hotel. This place is about year old, and is one of the higher places in town. The facilities are awesome for Jakarta standards and the massage quite good. Mostly straight massage if I recall correctly.

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by Exhausted

My turn to contribute. Went to try Sun Executive to check out the place, and needed a good massage anyway.

Are u talking abt sun city in Hayam Wuruk??

[Exhausted]

Yup that's the one bro

Originally Posted by naemlo

Are u talking abt sun city in Hayam Wuruk??

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by Exhausted

Yup that's the one bro

Then the food n facilities are included. U just have to pay for the drink.

I'm always there cos I have a regular sayang there.

[aakumu]

Originally Posted by Exhausted

Yup that's the one bro

Hi bro,
Sun city is in Kota, right? Next to Jakarta?
Next to the Jayakarta Hotel, I think if I was not wrong, there is a big supermarket in the mall.
Great place but hard to get to in the afternoon, better after hours.

My humble two cents.

[loveme691234]

Originally Posted by aakumu

Tangerang search hotels for adultery, liquors

Sat, 02/21/2009 3:41 PM | City

TANGERANG: Banten's Tangerang administration is holding a search operations on hotels suspected of having illegal prostitution or receiving couples who were not married.

Secretary of the Tangerang city administration, Harry Mulya Zein said the city public order agency had held raids on "adulterers" in hotels of the area.

"Almost every week, the officers searched for hotel guests who were not husband and wife," he said, as quoted by Antara.

Last week, the office caught dozens of couples who rented rooms in no-star hotels. Their data was registered before they were sent home, he said.

They also search for alcoholic drinks, Harry said.

The operations are based on 2005 bylaws banning adultery, premarital sex and alcohol.

The operations were held at hotels on Jl. Merdeka, Jl. Sitanala, Jl. Imam Bonjol, Jl. Otista, Benda subdistrict, and around the area of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Harry said the target of the order operation was to stop Tangerang from becoming a city of prostitution and alcoholic beverages sales, in principal with the city's motto: "ahlakul karimah" which is Arabic for "good morals".

"There is no place in Tangerang to commit such acts," he said. -JP


Hi bro,
From the Jakarta Post, as I have bolded the text the NON Stars hotel, very funny, right?

My humble two cents.

Hi bro,
Will it effect the hotel I am staying as I am coming in next week?
Thanks.


Cheers.

[Exhausted]

Bro, u mean food and facilities included even without paying the 100k faciliites charge?

What's the FJ pricing there?

Originally Posted by naemlo

Then the food n facilities are included. U just have to pay for the drink.

I'm always there cos I have a regular sayang there.

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by Exhausted

Bro, u mean food and facilities included even without paying the 100k faciliites charge?

What's the FJ pricing there?

Yes included.

As for FJ, this I dunno. Never encounter FJ in Sun City.

[aakumu]

Hi bro,
From the Jakarta Globe,
February 22, 2009

News / National / Article

Camelia Pasandaran
Porn Law Dispute Driven to Court

See Also:
Unclear Porn Law 'Can't Be Enforced'
Questions Made Possible By the Porn Law
Commisssion to Monitor Law

The Constitutional Court is scheduled to hear the first legal challenge to the controversial Pornography Law today, after several Christian, student and ethnic minority organizations from North Sulawesi Province filed for a judicial review.

The groups, represented by prominent attorney OC Kaligis, are challenging three articles of the law, which was passed by the House of Representatives last October and signed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono despite widespread criticism and vows by some provinces not to enforce the legislation.

According to Nallom Kurniawan, a Constitutional Court expert, the groups are challenging the definition of pornography in Article 1, Article 4 on the production and distribution of pornographic materials, and Article 10, which bans public performances deemed pornographic.

"The first [challenge] is on the definition of pornography,” he said recently. “The definition itself is absurd and may lead to conflicting interpretations. If the head is weak, then the whole body of the law is weak. [The groups’] main concern is cultural preservation, which may be endangered by the law.”

A certain group of people could use the porn law as a way to attack the cultural beliefs of others.

Eva Kusuma Sundawi, member of the House of Representatives

The Pornography Law has been widely panned for its possible negative impact on women’s and minority rights, pluralism and freedom of expression. Lawmakers were accused of adopting the legislation to appease Muslim groups ahead of the upcoming legislative and presidential elections.

Still, authorities said last week that it would be almost impossible to enforce the law. Public prosecutors, the heads of the South and Central Jakarta district courts, the police, and experts from the Constitutional Court all agreed that poor public acceptance, unclear terminology and contradictory articles were a hindrance to the law’s execution, and more government regulations were needed to clarify exactly what the law meant.

Fachmy Badoh, a senior official at Indonesia Corruption Watch, said the House had failed to read public opinion on the Pornography Law.

“Lawmakers should stand for the aspirations of their constituents,” Fachmy said.

Legislator Eva Kusuma Sundawi, who voted against the legislation during committee hearings, said she was happy that the law could not be implemented.

Eva said a number of provincial officials had misused the anti-pornography law. “The governor of West Java used the law in an attempt to ban jaipongan , a traditional West Javanese dance, based on his subjective opinion of it,” she said.

Sundawi, a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, said the biggest problem with the law was the fact that the public was allowed to enforce it themselves. She said such a setup could encourage vigilantism.

“A certain group of people could use the porn law as a way to attack the cultural beliefs of others,” she said.

However, Balkan Kaplale, the former chairman of the committee that drafted the legislation, argued that the police are enforcing the law effectively.

“The Central Jakarta Police once stopped a dangdut singer who was allegedly violating the porn law,” he said. “The law has been effectively implemented. As far as public reception goes, I guess people now are realizing that the law is needed. Many provinces that rejected the law at first are now silent. ”

With is still air, it give to cops more avenue to us hassle us over when we are out cheonging.
Please do take care when cheonging and not fall into their traps.

My humble two cents.

[aakumu]

Originally Posted by loveme691234

Hi bro,
Will it effect the hotel I am staying as I am coming in next week?
Thanks.


Cheers.

Hi bro,
Sorry for the late reply, If you are staying in a 5 stars hotel there should not be a problem.
Feel free to ask me anything, if you have any questions.

My humble two cents.

[Exhausted]

Recently tried Sands Spa at Mangga Dua from recommendation of bros here. Again, my first observation is that the main entrance is towards the carpark. Coming in from the shopping centre a little harder to find. Place is older than Sun City and standard rooms are small with no attached bathroom and no door (just curtain).

Was looking for a good massage. Counter staff asked if I wanted local or Chinese (took local) and medium or hard strength (opted for hard and they seemed in difficulting of finding one). Anyway, led to a room in a corridor, which was bad cos lots of people walking through and talking so noisy from time to time. Gal came in again nothing to look at. Did her job quite well and massage skill had better technique and strength than gal I was given at Sun City, but this one did not even bother to do any arousal/sensual type massage. Finished off and did not even ask me for hj. Tipped her 100k and left. Outside, saw a Chinese masseur and rate her about 7.5 (good body).

Damage 285k (including 100k tip).

[BlackDre]

Hi,
sorry, I'm new here and just read the message below, which I found on the first page. But is something like that still available in Jakarta? If yes, how are the rates?

Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by Rainman

My friend,

It's not that nobody replied but why u want to find OKT or call girl number when there are just too many girls anywhere u goes here in Jakarta. I always said that Bangkok is the official SEX CITY in asia while Indonesia is the unofficial sex city. Do u know that the biggest Pro Den is found here in Indonesia. It's call DOLLY located in East Java in SURABAYA. It's a small kumpung with small cubical and girls waiting to be of service. If u have been to Cambodia and Bombay, u would know what I mean.

Howover, it's Ramadah now and pub don't open till 8pm or rather, most have taken a month holiday anticipating difficult time with this new goverment.

Anyway, I would like to recommend the latest happening here.

The name of this place is called KOREAN STAR located at Djayakata Tower Hotel - 18th Floor. This is the only place in Jakarta which give u a real BODY massage with very young and beautiful girls. The other place is call Katica but girls are old.

It cost Rup 300,000 for service of one and a half hours. Naked of course.

U're allowed to do just everything with the girls till u cum EXCEPT fucking. Interesting isn't it. I've not been there just yet as I mentioned it's Ramadah. Pub and most Massage places are closed except for those located inside a Hotel.

All my friend had tried and rating is a good 9/10. One problem though, there is only 7 rooms with 10 girls. It's open from noon till midnight.

Happy cumming in Jakarta.

Salamat Hari Raya Pusah.

[isab]

Hi, any good massage parlour in South Jakarta? I already tried some in Kota or Lokasari but far from home! Tks

[aakumu]

Originally Posted by isab

Hi, any good massage parlour in South Jakarta? I already tried some in Kota or Lokasari but far from home! Tks

Hi bro,
You could try Galaxy spa.
Good luck.

My humble two cents.