Sorry, I'll be visiting the hotel with the happiness department!

jalan jaksa has many happiness departments!

Jaksa is certainly full of artists and cults if you ask me

I think there is a spelling mistake on the eigth word Roy

ah yes my mistake. should read 'celts' .

the festival is along side on the road of jalan jaksa?

no, it's actually in jalan jaksa. the road will be closed to traffic for three days.

will you participate in the festival, ku?

hell yeah! i'm the auditor!

Jalan Jaksa Festival to be held this weekend

JAKARTA (Antara): The annual “Jalan Jaksa Festival” is going to be held this weekend, with Governor Sutiyoso is scheduled to officially open the event on Saturday, official said.

The event actually starts Friday, but the Governor will officially open it on Saturday,” said Oyong Hana Abidin, spokesperson of the Central Jakarta administration on Thursday.

Oyong said that this year’s festival would be organized by the Kebon Sirih Karang Taruna youth organization..

As many as 80 stands will take part in the two-day event, offering various tourism products and services, Oyong said, adding that the event which is also held to commemorate the country’s Independence Day, was expected to attract some 500 visitors, including foreign tourists.

Jalan Jaksa in Central Jakarta is known as the city’s main tourist site, especially among back packers, as it offers affordable accommodation. (**)

"Jalan Jaksa in Central Jakarta is known as the city’s main tourist site, especially among back packers [sic], as it offers affordable accommodation."

City's main tourist site! About sums things up.

indeed. and is jaksa really a "backpacker centre"? it may once have been, 10 years ago. it sure ain't now. JP journalists really need to get out once in a while and not just regurgitating tired old "facts" from the archives.

what kind of stand will be there? is it about tourism or something else

hard to know what it's about really, apart from giving a few of the local lads an income for a few months. it's a locals scene to some extent, though i'm sure some foreign tourists would find the music on offer interesting. there are also the usual "handcraft" stalls and clothing from china ... outside my office at night they show indonesian action movies on a big screen strung up over the street. seems very popular. and loud.

All I know is that I was at the "so called" Jaksa festival last night and saw a bule up on stage with Fuzzy Bozo (sic) and he was kinda funny, and did the bule name some good, for once.

which bule might this be?? and what was fuzzy bozo doing there? just a few days ago Sooty said that he would be officiating!

must've been that chap in the white hat who appears on all those tv programmes and seems to live on jaksa. He's a funny guy

I have most of his tv shows on DVD. Quite frankly he's about as funny as a truckload of dead rats in a tampon factory. However, he is very handsome and probably rather hirsute. And he was an amenable landlord during the dire straits when I delved into the squattocracy. Nothing quite like a lingering dip into the Dickensian dosshouse for orphaned shoe-shine boys.

oh yeah, i know that guy. what a prick!

There's a little green-eyed idol to south of Kathmandu, eh? Unless I'm wrong, and I am never wrong, young White-Hat the adonis made a fleeting cameo in one episode of Trans TV's Fenomena, completely upstaging a long boring interview with a more bilious Jaksa bule.

i've never actually seen the program actually, so i'll have to take your word for it.

it's apparently been repeated quite a number of times, but always way past my bed time.

That particular episode of Fenomena was a gleaming example of tawdry smut posing as current affairs. The best (and most cringe-worthy) part was an interview with a particularly tawdry PSK, who claimed her bule clients paid handsomely for her to take it up the gary glitter. I'd never seen her on Jaksa, so can only assume she was rounded up for the show and coached to spout such venomous slander. Either that or she hangs out in Memories when not in Tiga Kuda.

i still have the interviewer's name card. do you want to apply for job with them? you'd fit in really well.

I've often thought about working under Emma Waroka Hawkins. But unfortunately, Fenomena has been axed. Perhaps Dorce Show needs a sleepy halfwit co-host. Don't really fancy working under Dorce though.

I missed Jalan Jaksa Arts Festival..
commonly Kuku invited me for spent time there

"Jalan Jaksa Arts Festival: Jakarta's Tourist Street will come alive with Traditional Betawi Folk arts, parades, music, and food that will stretch out the KH. Wahid Hasyim shopping street."

"Jaksa Street Festival
7/01/2007 - 8/31/2007
Jalan Jaksa is the main backpacker and tourist street in Jakarta which is lined with cheap accommodation, budget restaurants and friendly bars. Each year it celebrates its diverse identity with the annual Jaksa Street Festival which includes live music, art exhibitions, craft stalls and sporting contests. The sole goal of the day is to have fun and entertainment usually carries on late in to the night."

The only prominent artists on Jaksa are piss artists and bull artists. And the charming fellow who used to do charcoal drawings of bare-breasted women, but now mainly peddles unobjectionable oil paintings, including imitations of Dutch masters.

Who is that old bastard who craps on about "tarif lama" to every poor unsuspecting soul who even looks like they may need a taxi?

I thought that was Kuku, he had to take a part time job to support the new addition to his dynasty!

Sounds like ole T. Rex to me.

This is an old local geezer with teeth like a burnt out village and a pony tail - looks like a right good steam cleaning would do him good.
In saying that the whole of Jaksa would disintegrate if you threw a bar of lifebouy in the middle of it.

Yep, that's definitely T. Rex - to a 'T'. except for the teeth. And the pony tail. And the bit about giving advice on taxis.

Ken does a top impression

That would be nice - it would at least confirm the identity of the said soap dodger

Doesn't confirm anything, as my teeth are in immaculate condition, much like the rest of me. Perhaps you're thinking of Cedric Digsby?

Spot the soap dodger on Jaksa ? They're all covered in a layer of crust down there surely?

noted your apology in The Jakarta Post yesterday! (first time i've read the sunday post for ages, actually. there were at least 3 articles/columns worth reading ...)

i don't know what happened to the festival ... it was supposed to continue into sunday, but it seemed to have had the plug pulled. i'm doing the audit on their books this week, so should be interesting to see what really happened ...

Just saw the pictures of Fuzzy and the Jaksa boys on stage during the festival and I believe the two blokes are part of the "wild regulars" from Romance. They can usually be found in Romance with there wives every weekend trying to coax them down from the tree pole in the middle of the cafe.

The resident Romance pole dancers? It all adds to the ambience.

for me jalan jaksa is only for yaudah cafe.

hate to tell you that yaudah cafe has relocated to kelapa gading..but you can still see bancis sucking bule cock at romance cafe on a friday night

...and also observe sassy tinted ladies berating their silvery male brethren for being panty wasters.

Apparently there's no end to the scum they'll allow to participate in the Jalan Jaksa Arts Festival. We're playing a short gig tonight on the stage set up more or less next to Romance Cafe. We are *supposed* to be starting anywhere from 8 to 9PM.

Will there be silveries?

Will there be an aristocracy?

You the opening act for KiwiDan's band are ya?

Will there be exotic pole dancers?

near to my place, i will be there for sure...:-)

Samiun. Can i entrust you with a very important and confidential message for Rex T. Marcus ?

Sadly Witty, we are actually opening for Kiwi Dan's band "Bob Viagra & The Terrorists". Jesus wept.

MW: There will most certainly be silveries there.

There will also be exotic pole dancers.

Hope to see some of you down there around 8 or so...

A shame that Raspberry Ripple & the Y-Fronts won't be performing.

I thought u didn't like that fest.

I hope I can see you around 10ish? My sis's friend just came from saff afeca, gonna have dinner with them tonite. If not then I say break a leg.

I better wear my silveries friendly hat then, lord knows what will happen if I don't look friendly.

I don't make sense.

lol