Example sentences for: jakarta

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

  • The papers say that the nation's top opposition leader had called for a million demonstrators to take to the streets of Jakarta, and that the military, primarily via stern television messages, urged them not to.

  • The NYT boldly heads its story "Jakarta Concedes A Loss of Control," but the LAT makes clear that no coherent message is emanating from Jakarta.

  • Today's voting in Indonesia, the first free elections in that country since 1955, got an optimistic boost from the Sydney Morning Herald 's correspondent in Jakarta.

  • An editorial in the Jakarta Post declared the elections "a triumph for the Indonesian people and democracy," but in light of predictions that Golkar would poll strongly in the country's outer islands and might be able to hold on to power with the help of small Islamic parties, the Post said, "It would be a hollow victory and a terrible irony if our exercise in democracy failed to produce the very goal of the whole process: Voting out the status quo and putting a proreform government in its place."

  • The Jakarta Post , however, reported that "massive protests" have been taking place in eastern Indonesia by supporters of former President B.J.


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