So we finally arrived in Jakarta after getting of the ferry from Sumatra. The contrast in the level of traffic in Sumatra and Java is enormous! Java with population of nearly 150m feels like a sardine can, being on the roads is like being in a diesel exhaust of a truck. Level of pollution scary! One does come across occasional brain-dead's behind the steering wheel (mainly the bus drivers) but it nothing like in India.
There are few toll highways that covers few stretches of Java and the fact that bikes are not allowed on these has given as plenty of opportunity to further soak in the top notch diesel fumes and dust as well as the brain-dead's.
Jakarta, population of 10 million (feels more like 20) is probably the largest city we have visited in this trip and most probably the least interesting. But this would be the best place to find out about ways and places to ship the bike back to Europe.

Images - (1) central station, (2 & 3) view of Jl. Merdeka Barat before the rush hour,

Images - (1) central station, (2 & 3) view of Jl. Merdeka Barat before the rush hour,
(5) Sunda Kelapa, the old Dutch port in North Jakarta home to some beautiful Buginese Makassar schooners, and most things, what ever the weight, is still carried by hand.
(6) Apart from from the Art Deco architecture, there is very little to remind us of the centuries of Dutch past.