I come from Surabaya, Indonesia. I've been live aboard since 2007 and now I live in Perth. I am a student in Business school, I love cooking, shopping and traveling as well.
I joined expat.com on 31 August 2013.
Nice place to live, public transportation is easy to reach
Its expensive place by far, some Asian spice cant found here yet they wont allow you to bring inside the country, the local sales person really "aggressive" type
Surabaya is nice place where can get all you need, no need drive as taxi so cheap and pretty honest driver. Jakarta is more city and everything in there more likely following western.
Jakarta traffic jam is really bad, and poor public transportation. It is not easy to find non-western food, only certain mall have it
Cheap food, great shopping 365 days non stop sale
Some people sometimes still do discriminating against other