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On Java's northwest shore, Jakarta is a flat coastal capital crowded with ports, canals, markets and high-rises. As Batavia it served as headquarters of the Dutch East India Company from 1619, which fixed trade, law and migration routes that still shape its neighborhood life. The Raid and The Raid 2 sit on its shelf. Open Jakarta on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 17 books and 13 movies set in Jakarta.
The Raid
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of…
The Raid 2
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life SWAT team member Rama goes undercover joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect…
Blackhat
Nicholas Hathaway a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in the stakes become personal as…
After the Dark
At an international school in Jakarta a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear…
Merantau
In Minangkabau West Sumatera Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will…
A Man Called Ahok
An indonesian biopic movie on the controversial former Jakarta governor Ahok.
Snakehead
No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia than he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he's working for ASIS - the Australian Secret Service - and his target is the criminal…
Sacred
A group of young filmmakers from Jakarta arrived in Bantul Yogyakarta to prepare for a shoot. Things are normal until the second day when they start to experience unexplained phenomenon.
The Atlantis Gene
The greatest mystery of all time...the history of human origins...will be revealed.In Antarctica, researchers discover a mysterious structure, buried in ice. In a lab in Jakarta, an autism researcher identifies a…
Something in the Way
Ahmad a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
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