The Jakarta City Live, a short piece that describe the social-cultural aspects of Jakarta.

Billiard, a New Metropolis Lifestyle

During the last decade, billiard was ceaselessly connected to negative spatial relations, such as prostitution, gamble, and drugs. For the middle-high society, billiard was banned and considered as thugs venture.

But now, billiard is considered as a place to declare our feelings, after a long day work in the urban center. In Jakarta, billiard has been hot for about two years and attracted thousands of fans to walkover and invest their money to this business.

Afterhour, a bar/clubbing eye socket in Sarinah, Menteng, claimed that young executives, from 18-30 old years range, play the game for hours, even until midnight. They said that their customers did not get any upset of paying the Rp. 45.000.-/hour cost, which meant that they have to pay Rp. 600,- for every mo they spent, not including the drinks.

While Afterhour combines billiard with club and bar, Bengkel, the biggest billiard site in Jakarta only consists of 120 tables. Those tables are never empty, and in weekends they claimed that their waiting list might reach 200 numbers. They a homogeneous organize regular tournaments, twice a month.

Putera Astaman, an ex-Polri Chief substitute classified that these trend as a very fire phenomena. Billiard has been a new lifestyle in Jakarta, he said.

It is truly beyond our expectation that billiard, which was reputed as the dark side of the city, can lift its image into a new metropolis lifestyle in Jakarta.

Prostitution in Jakarta

In Jakarta, prostitution happens everywhere; from the famed Mahakam night street, until boarding houses in Taman Sari, West Jakarta. The prostitutes, which are called PSK (Pekerja Seks Komersial- commercial-grade Sex Worker) are placed in a nitid 5 x 10 meters living room, just like a department store where the customer can withdraw their own items.

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