Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is the largest city in Southeast Asia and a world-renowned seaport. Located on the northwest coast of Java Island, on the north bank, at the mouth of the Cirion River, adjacent to the Gulf of Jakarta, at longitude 106 ° 49 'east and latitude 6 ° 10' south.
Jakarta Capital District, Indonesia
Jakarta is a famous city with a long history. Hundreds of years ago, it was already a famous seaport for exporting pepper and spices, known as Sundagaraba, which means "the land of coconut forests" or "the world of coconut forests". In 1527, Muslim leaders led the Indonesian people to defeat the fleet of Portuguese colonizers, recaptured Gonda Galaba, and renamed it Chayagalda, meaning "Victory City" or "Glorious Fortress". The name of Jakarta evolved from this.
The urban area of Jakarta is divided into two parts, with the coastal area to the north being the old city, which is a shipping and commercial center.
JAKARTA is 10 kilometers away from the outer port Tanjung Priok in the east, which is the largest container port in Indonesia. Jakarta is also a famous pepper export port in Indonesia. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, and also a transportation hub for land, sea, and air. Jakarta is also one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia and a shipping center in southern Asia and Oceania. Jakarta's main industries include shipbuilding, automotive assembly, machinery, building materials, textiles, tires, fertilizers, food processing, and chemical engineering. The port is approximately 20 kilometers away from the international airport and has regular flights to various parts of the world. Jakarta (JAKARTA) has a tropical rainforest climate, and the north northeast wind prevails. The annual average temperature is 24-31 ºC. Thundershowers often occur. The average annual rainfall is about 2000mm. It is a diurnal tidal port with an average tidal range of 0.6m. There are 24 main dock berths in the Jakarta port area, with a shoreline of 5514m and a maximum depth of 11.5m. The loading and unloading equipment includes various shore cranes, gantry cranes, floating cranes, container cranes, truck cranes, and grab loading and unloading machines, among which the maximum lifting capacity of the floating crane is 200 tons, and the maximum power of the tugboat is 1103kW. There are also 30 mooring buoys that can moor vessels with a deadweight of 15000 tons. The largest reliable ship with a weight of 70000 tons in the outer port of Tanjung Priok. The Jakarta Export Processing Zone covers an area of 280000 square meters and has been equipped with bonded warehouses since 1969. Due to the entry of many household appliances, automobiles, and fiber industries in Japan into the Indonesian market, Indonesia's container throughput has gradually increased. In 1994, Jakarta's container throughput reached 1.061 million TEUs, an increase of 8.5% compared to 1993. Jakarta's main export goods include rubber, tea, pepper, coffee, wood, zinc, cinchona cream, oil, and tobacco, while its import goods mainly include machinery, steel, rice, pharmaceuticals, household appliances, cattle, and sugar. Jakarta's foreign trade throughput accounts for over 50% of Indonesia's imports, with the main trading partners being Japan, the United States, and Singapore.