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- The capital and largest city of Indonesia, on the northwest coast of Java. Founded as Batavia by the Dutch (c. 1619) on the site of an earlier city, it became an important center of the Dutch East India Company and was renamed Jakarta after Indonesia became independent in 1949.
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- proper noun The capital city of
Indonesia .
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- noun capital and largest city of Indonesia; located on the island of Java; founded by the Dutch in 17th century
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Soekarno Hatta, cengkareng, jakarta international airport was closed of heavy rain and thick foggy around the Jakarta.
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MARIA RESSA, CNN JAKARTA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): The alumni of this Islamic boarding school includes nearly all of Indonesia's top terrorist suspects, like the suicide bomber from last month's Marriott Hotel blast in Jakarta and the men now on trial for the Bali bombing last year, which killed more than 200 people.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 3: 10 a.m. JAKARTA, Indonesia - President Barack Obama's visit to Indonesia next month will give new momentum to already positive relations between Washington and Jakarta, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
Fore, right! ROD McGUIRK 2010
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JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - A statue of Barack Obama that was torn down from a public park in Indonesia will be relocated to the president's former school in Jakarta, a school official said on Sunday.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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JAKARTA - There is a restaurant in Jakarta that promises patrons they're going to feel at home and things look promising when a pajama-wearing waiter asks if you'd like to dine in AMERICAN FULL MOON CAFE 1525 E. 15th St.,
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JAKARTA: A retired Saudi Arabian schoolteacher went on trial Wednesday charged with financing suicide bombings at two Jakarta hotels that killed seven and wounded more than
arabnews - frontpage 2010
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 8: 10 p.m. JAKARTA, Indonesia - An alleged Islamic militant went on trial Wednesday on charges of harboring terrorists behind twin suicide hotel bombings in Jakarta that killed seven and injured more than 50 in Indonesia.
Fore, right! IRWAN FIRDAUS 2010
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JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - A statue of Barack Obama that was torn down from a public park in Indonesia will be relocated to the president's former school in Jakarta, a school official said on Sunday.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Several hundred Indonesians rallied in Jakarta on Sunday demanding that the president do more to protect freedom of religion and to punish hardline Muslim groups which have attacked minority faiths.
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JAKARTA - A retired Saudi Arabian school teacher went on trial yesterday, charged with financing suicide bombings at two Jakarta hotels last July that killed seven people.
TODAYonline 2010
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