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Weekly 5: Tales of Jakarta
Jakarta is famous for air pollution, floods and horrendous traffic
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(JP)" border="0" height="80" width="52">(JP)The Year of Living Dangerously is a movie by Peter Weir, an adaptation from Christopher Kochâs novel of the same title. The film tells of a love affair between an Australian journalist (Mel Gibson) and a British Embassy officer (Sigourney Weaver) in Jakarta during the 1965 coup against president Sukarno.
Besides showing the political situation in the city, the film also depicts the poverty of residents due to the unrest.
Although the story is all about Indonesia, most of the filming of the movie had to be conducted in the Philippines as the government here refused to issue a permit.
The movie, banned until the change of regime in 1999, was received well by critics and audiences.
Running Dogs (2012)
Running Dogs is a novel by young Australian writer Ruby J. Murray. The novels is about Diana, an Australian development worker who lives in Jakarta.
Diana, through her old friend Petra and her siblings, reveals the other side of Jakarta, the one occupied by expatriates whose lives and wealth different drastically from the majority of Jakartans.
The novel was told over two time periods, contemporary Jakarta and Petraâs childhood during the Soeharto-era in 1997.
Murrayâs website rubbyjmurray.com describes Jakarta as a global city where poverty, corruption and extreme wealth sit side by side.
War Photographer (2001)
War Photographer is a documentary by war photographer James Nachtwey, considered one of greatest war photographers, while covering political and social unrest in several cities, including Kosovo, Ramallah in the West Bank, Thokoza in South Africa and Jakarta in Indonesia.
In Jakarta, Nachtwey covered the 1998 riot during the reform era and the poverty of the capital city.
Nachtwey illustrated how the riot became a humanitarian tragedy by picturing a group of people slashing each otherâs throats without guilt. He represented poverty through a limbless father, trying to feed his family who live near a railroad track.
The film itself won a 2003 Peabody Award and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002.
The Adventures of Tintinâs Flight 714 (1968)
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akarta is famous for air pollution, floods and horrendous traffic. Still, there are some artists and authors who focus on the other side of the city. Here are some of them:
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
(JP)The Year of Living Dangerously is a movie by Peter Weir, an adaptation from Christopher Koch's novel of the same title.
The film tells of a love affair between an Australian journalist (Mel Gibson) and a British Embassy officer (Sigourney Weaver) in Jakarta during the 1965 coup against president Sukarno.
Besides showing the political situation in the city, the film also depicts the poverty of residents due to the unrest.
Although the story is all about Indonesia, most of the filming of the movie had to be conducted in the Philippines as the government here refused to issue a permit.
The movie, banned until the change of regime in 1999, was received well by critics and audiences.
Running Dogs (2012)
Running Dogs is a novel by young Australian writer Ruby J. Murray. The novels is about Diana, an Australian development worker who lives in Jakarta.
Diana, through her old friend Petra and her siblings, reveals the other side of Jakarta, the one occupied by expatriates whose lives and wealth different drastically from the majority of Jakartans.
The novel was told over two time periods, contemporary Jakarta and Petra's childhood during the Soeharto-era in 1997.
Murray's website rubbyjmurray.com describes Jakarta as a global city where poverty, corruption and extreme wealth sit side by side.
War Photographer (2001)
War Photographer is a documentary by war photographer James Nachtwey, considered one of greatest war photographers, while covering political and social unrest in several cities, including Kosovo, Ramallah in the West Bank, Thokoza in South Africa and Jakarta in Indonesia.
In Jakarta, Nachtwey covered the 1998 riot during the reform era and the poverty of the capital city.
Nachtwey illustrated how the riot became a humanitarian tragedy by picturing a group of people slashing each other's throats without guilt. He represented poverty through a limbless father, trying to feed his family who live near a railroad track.
The film itself won a 2003 Peabody Award and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002.
The Adventures of Tintin's Flight 714 (1968)
The name of Jakarta is mentioned when Tintin and his friends land at the now defunct Kemayoran International Airport in Central Jakarta.
The story plot mostly takes place in the islands of Nusa Tenggara.
Batavia paintings
Modern Jakarta might be not appealing to foreign artists but old Jakarta or Batavia is another story. One artists captivated with its beauty was Ernest Alferd Hardouin (1820-1854).
The Ducth painter came to the city in 1842 to work as a stage designer with a French theatrical group. His paintings about Batavia include Huis Rijswijk (The House of Rijswijk) and the painting of Koningsplein of Batavia, which is now known as Merdeka Square in Central Jakarta.
Unlike the city, which is now a concrete jungle, the city depicted by Hardouin's strokes is vast and green. ' JP
