Two Faces of Jakarta

Two Faces of Jakarta

Many people talked about Jakarta as the city of happiness. A place where you can get anything that you want. A place with a lot of opportunity. A place that you can live happily ever after with your family. It can be true or false. Some people reach success and live happy in Jakarta, but the others just get the sadness and the rudeness of Jakarta. Many people, including the citizen's of Jakarta, didn't knew that Jakarta has two different kind of personality. Realize it or not, may be it is happen around us.

When you step your foot for the first time in Jakarta, your eyes will be shocked by a lot of wonderful things. There are many beautiful building with a great touch of architecture, big street that always pass by a lot of cars and motorcycles, luxurious resorts and residences, and many more. If you want to see it for yourself, I suggest you to visit semanggi area. In there, you will see a lot of beautiful building. Like Plaza Semanggi, one of the famous shopping center in Jakarta, Sudirman Palace, a shopping center also a bussines center too, one of the newest thing in Jakarta, Da Vinci Tower, a furniture shop and also an apartment ( but I thing its to expensive for an apartment, and many more. Besides the bulding, you will see many big roads with cars and motorcycles in itm,m and also the most famous bridges in Jakarta, Semanggi Bridge. If you aren't satisfied, you can go to senayan, its not far from sudriman. In there, at least there are four shopping places that makes senayan is one of the most complete shopping area in Jakarta. There are Plaza Senayan, Senayan Trade Center, Sogo Senayan, and also the brand new Senayan City. These places has it own unique in architecture side. Senayan is also known as a luxuxrious residences area. Besides the sudriman and senayan area, there are still lot of wonderful places full of building and lot of luxurious things. It makes jakarta more sophisticated and people start to call Jakarta as The Metropolis City.A place with modern facility, great, and presticious place. And its change the lifestyle of the citizen. From the usual life, to the glamourous, luxurious, and also lot of prestise life. It makes Jakarta look more delicious in the eyes of the other city in Indonesia. But, the reality said the different things

Besides the glamorous places and lifestyle, there are still more sadness in Jakarta. Example, when you go deeper in Jakarta, you will see a lot of semi permanent residences area that actually its not a good place to stay. That kind of residence belongs to the people who being a victim of the glamorous thing that we have talked int the second paragraph. Went you want to build a bulding, you will need some space to make it real. Since Jakarta have a lot of people, and its increase every years causes by the imigration and also the birth, the empty space in Jakarta decrease every years. Since there is no more space to build, the companies try to buy the civil residence area. Some companies give a good price, but the others try to buy it with the lowest price. There is a lot of case that some companies takes the residences area by force, and claim the space belongs to them, and destroy the residence without thinking about the citizen's feeling. Usually, this case happen int the conflict area. If its happen, who will be blamed?. The citizen that lost their treasure on the destruction event have to build their life again from piece to piece. They try to get a job but its so difficult to find a job event for the s1 graduate today. Since most of the victim only graduated from high school, they can do more. except hope. And this things going to more complicated with the came of the imigran. Every years, a lot of imigran cam to Jakarta to get a better life. And it makes the real citizen have to fight with the imigran to survive. Like a game, there is the winner and the looser. The winners get what they want, better life and success carier, but the looser get nothing except paint. And usualy they, the victim of this competition, take a shortcut to get some money. They do a lot of bad things like stealing, prostituting, and even killing other people to get some money. It makes the number of the criminal scenes in Jakarta increase every years. It makes Jakarta no longer safe to stay and also make the name of Jakarta mor ugly in the eyes of world.

This kind of poor lifestyle is very different from the first one. When the first one enjoyed thier lifestyle, the others still have to survive with their life. This significant different of society needs help from the goverment. If the goverment just sit behind the table, Jakarta will have a great damage of the material and also morality soon. Ad it brings Jakarta to the Gate of Destroy. So, its a challange to the goverment to solve the problem, and also our task to help. Wiseman said that Jakarta has been called a study in contrasts, traditional and modern, reacg and poor, spiritual and wordly stand side by side in this bustling metropolis. Jakarta, with a lot of variety, should have reach the equilibrium so the citizen can live in peace. God create the different things to complete each other. And I thing, Jakarta have to be the representative of what The God's created.

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