country: Indonesia
population: city 10'187'595, metro 28'019'545
area: city 740 km2
density: city 13'767 pop./ km2
elevation: 7m
inflation 2012: 4.28 %
Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia, located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre.
Jakarta's economy depends heavily on financial service, trade, and manufacturing. Industries in Jakarta include electronics, automotive, chemicals, mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing.
Jakarta is strained by transportation problems. The city suffers a lack of urban public transport services due to prioritized development of road networks, which were mostly designed to accommodate private vehicles. source: wikipedia.org