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Definition: Jakarta |
JakartaNoun1. Capital and largest city of Indonesia; located on the island of Java; founded by the Dutch in 17th century. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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This article discusses Jakarta, Indonesia. If you are looking for the Jakarta Project, click there. Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, located on the island of Java.
History
An early settlement at this location was named Jayakarta. It was destroyed in 1619 by forces of the Dutch East India Company, led by Jan Pieterszoon Coen. The company founded a new settlement named Batavia to provide a harbour for its growing spice trade.The city was re-named to Jakarta during World War II.
See also: Jakarta International School
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The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source solutions in Java. Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools, libraries and frameworks such as:
Jakarta is under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.
- Ant - a build tool
- Maven
- OJB
- Slide
- Struts
- Tomcat - a JSP/Servlet container
- Torque
- Turbine
- Velocity - a template engine
- POI - a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats.
External links
- The Jakarta home page
- The Apache Software Foundation website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jakarta Project."
Synonym: JakartaSynonym: capital of Indonesia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Jakarta |
| English words defined with "Jakarta": Bandung. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Jakarta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Djakarta), Hungarian (Jakarta). |
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Screenplays | Daybreak, Jakarta. The proud men and women of the Navy are protecting America's interests overseas, but your in Lubbuth, Texas hosing down a statue, because your in the Naval Reserve (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jakarta Project (2001) Honeymoon in Jakarta (1993) Jakarta (1988) | |
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| "Speeding up in jakarta" by Nadia Arini Yahya Commentary: "I speed up on jakarta's street last night... it's been so long since the last.." |
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Business | Within a 900-mile radius lie primary seaports and airports at Bangkok, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur. (references) | |
Its factory, located in Jalan Raya Bogor, Jakarta, was built with a total investment of $5.8 million. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | There were about 10,000 street children in Jakarta. (references) |
Indonesia | In Jakarta there are 98 schools for persons with disabilities, 2 of which are government-operated and 96 of which are private. (references) | |
Indonesia | Areas with the highest reported incidences of juvenile crime are Java, including Jakarta (7,281), South Sumatra (1,336 cases), and North Sumatra (994). Persons with Disabilities There is some discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, education, and in the provision of other state services. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Indonesia | The Government cooperates with the UNHCR, which maintains a regional office in Jakarta. (references) |
Indonesia | Nevertheless, frequent demonstrations are held in Jakarta and around the country with or without official permission. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | Requests may be made to the publisher at Jl. Hayam Wuruk 4 SX, PO Box 4556, Jakarta Pusat. (references) |
Human Rights | Indonesia | The Jakarta district court dismissed the lawsuit for lack of evidence. (references) |
Indonesia | The other suspect, a civilian, escaped from prison in East Jakarta in February. (references) | |
Indonesia | In August Acehnese student leader Fasial Saifuddin was detained in Jakarta on similar charges. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | Such intimidation has been used in Jakarta, other parts of Java, North Sumatra, Aceh, and other areas. (references) |
Indonesia | Presidium vice chairman Tom Beanal recounted the Presidium's efforts since the Papuan Congress to start a dialog with Jakarta, and appealed for calm. (references) | |
Indonesia | A special team was established in Jakarta to lobby Parliament and the administration and explain the intent and background of the Papuan Special Autonomy Law. (references) | |
Minorities | Indonesia | A number of bombings and bombing attempts primarily targeted against Christian facilities occurred throughout the year, including at the Santa Anna Catholic Church in Jakarta on July 22. The bombing injured at least 70 persons, including a 7-month old infant and a 4-year old girl. (references) |
Political Economy | Indonesia | In June in Jakarta, police detained and threatened Non Governmental Organization (NGO) members before releasing them. (references) |
Trade | Indonesia | The next CGI meeting is tentatively scheduled for November 2001 in Jakarta. (references) |
Travel | Indonesia | Telecommunications: Telephone services vary between areas in Jakarta. (references) |
Indonesia | English is widely spoken and understood in Jakarta by most business people, although much less so in other cities. (references) | |
Indonesia | Note: New, very clean and well-operated private hospital in North Jakarta (near Pluit) with 24 hour emergency services. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | According to a study conducted during the year, only 20 percent of top managers and affluent consumers in Jakarta are female. (references) |
Indonesia | Some public hospitals in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Surabaya have integrated crisis centers that assist and protect abused women and children. (references) | |
Indonesia | There are a small but growing number of women's crisis centers, including a drop-in center founded in Jakarta by the government-sponsored National Women's Organization (KOWANI) and a crisis center for women in Yogyakarta that is administered by an NGO. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | In response to public pressure in 2000, the Jakarta city government closed down brothels in the red-light district of Kramat Tunggak in North Jakarta. (references) |
Indonesia | The Indonesian Women's Association for Justice facilitates public awareness programs in Jakarta to educate young women regarding the dangers of trafficking. (references) | |
Indonesia | One study conducted by Atma Jaya University in Jakarta estimated that there were at least 400,000 children under age 15 working as domestic servants in Jakarta alone. (references) | |
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| "Jakarta" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jakarta" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Indonesia | Jakarta International Hotel and Development Tbk. Pt. |
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Ending with "Jakarta": anti-jakarta. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Jakarta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Xhakartë. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雅加达. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Jakarta. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ジャカード織 (jacquard weave, jaguar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ジャカルタ . (various references) | |
Korean | 자카르타. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akartajay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jacarta. (various references) | |
Russian | Джакарта, джакарта. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | džakarta. (various references) | |
Spanish | Jacarta. (various references) | |
Thai | กรุงจาการ์ตา, จาการ์ตา. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Джакарта. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Jakarta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akaroa, Jakata, Jaketa, Jakita, Jakutia, Jayaram, Jeaurat, Jeyaraj, Jirarote, Takata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-j-k-r-t" | |
-2 letters: karat. | |
-3 letters: ajar, arak, kart, kata, raja, taka. | |
-4 letters: ark, art, jar, kat, raj, rat, taj, tar. | |
-5 letters: aa, ar, at, ka, ta. | |
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