Or, because this is the image that the city government has been projecting into, the answer is perhaps more appropriately “not yet”. With all of these and many other phenomena, one question comes up to many people’s mind: “ Has Jakarta become a global city?“ More amazingly, even some poor people in the most crowded squatter settlement in the city can now talk about “dollar” even though they never directly see or touch the greenback. ![]() And in any corner of this metropolis, we could easily bump into an expatriate.Įven during the current crisis, a lot of the city’s inhabitants watch cautiously the ups and downs of the exchange value of rupiah against the greenback and have become well aware of the increasing interconnection between the local economy and the global one. So did internationally-known franchise restaurants and department stores. ![]() Many multinational companies, banks, and other business institutions opened their branches in the city. The city seems to have been trying hard to change its previous image as a big village to an image of a global city.Īnd before the monetary crisis began to strike, Jakarta – a member of the Mega-Cities network and a sister-city to about a dozen other cities around the globe – to some extent had gotten the feeling of such a global city. Glittering skyscrapers, luxurious high-rise apartment buildings, spacious shopping malls and busy thoroughfares have gradually been replacing semi-permanent squatter settlements, crowded traditional markets and mud-puddled streets as the common features of many parts of the city. The past three decades in the life of the city of Jakarta have drastically changed its urban landscape. The city seems to have been trying hard to change its previous image as a big village to an image of a global city ![]() Tulisan Wicaksono Sarosa dan pernah dipublikasikan dalam Majalah Jakarta dan Arsitektur edisi Mei-Juni 1998, hal 22-24 Dok: Nurulitha Andini
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