No, it is not an automotive club name… It’s about all those people who ride motorbikes in the crowded and overpopulated Jakarta roads. And it’s been a month now since my father-in-law-to-be lend me an automatic transmission scooter. Quite a slick vehicle I must say.. I don’t need to change gear or fiddle around with transmission pedal and clutch, simply pull the accelerator to run faster or pull the break lever to slow down and stop, everything is done using both hands, freeing my feet from elaborate footwork, except to support the vehicle when stoping at traffic lights.

Anyhoo… I need to readjust to Jakarta traffic, considering I usually on a car’s driver seat or being a passenger in bigger vehicles like bus or somebody else’s car. I used to be cursing at motorcyclist for their carelessness… now I feel like everybody was cursing at me when I feel I’m doing something stupid along the way.

What I fear most are not buses, cars, or any other big vehicles… I really fear most are… other motorcyclist. Seems like they really don’t use rear view mirror that much, and they seems to have drone telepathic ability and some sort of swarm logic :) )

Hmm… I hope I can catch up, not in negative way though, such as zig-zag-ing through queues of cars, but more in awareness when some other bikers doing weird maneuvers…

Long Live Jakarta Jam !!