Example sentences for: jakarta

How can you use “jakarta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As the first peacekeepers arrived in East Timor, the South China Morning Post took a hard line against the Indonesian government in an editorial Monday, saying that "[i]f the army lets its militia puppets fight the UN forces, then Jakarta should pay a heavy price.

  • The Sydney Morning Herald also prominently reported the murder, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, of 30-year-old Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes, who was the correspondent in Jakarta for the Financial Times of London and the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland and who also wrote occasionally for the Christian Science Monitor . He was riding on the back of a motorcycle through the deserted Dili suburb of Becora when, according to his driver, who survived, six men in Indonesian army uniforms opened fire.

  • In an editorial in its Tuesday edition, the Jakarta Post called on the ruling Golkar Party to dump President B.J.

  • A commentary in the Jakarta Post warned that Australia's leadership of the peacekeeping force could destroy the hitherto close relationship between Australia and Indonesia.

  • In Singapore, the Sunday Straits Times reported from West Timor that pro-Jakarta militias are being trained by Indonesian army defectors to kill Australian soldiers.


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