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 LAT reports that up to 3,000 Americans are already in Jakarta, with about 12,000 more in outlying areas.

  • The LAT goes with Jakarta student street riots over a just-passed bill that has raised fears of a coup because it bestows new emergency powers on the Indonesian military.

  • 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."

  • Quoting a military manual leaked to the Jakarta Post , the paper said platoon leaders have been authorized to use live ammunition "in self-defense to cripple rioters who are clearly threatening to kill others [or to] cause heavy material damage."


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