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As you may have just arrived in Jakarta with your family, we hope we can help you settle into life in this fascinating and often challenging city! If there is something that is not answered here for you then please email us at info@familyguidetojakarta.web.id We will do our best to help you or put you in touch with someone who can.

If there is something that you feel is missing from this part of the site then please contact us. The site is dependent on it's readers helping to update the information!

Housing and finding a family home is going to be your first biggest task. We hope we can help you along the way with our advice here.

Household safety is something that you need to take very seriously. Building standards in Indonesia may be different from your home country and so we recommend that you look at this page in our staying safe & healthy section for advice.

The water in Jakarta IS NOT SAFE TO DRINK under any circumstances.You will be redirected to the staying safe & healthy section here for more advice.

You have the opportunity to employ staff to help you at home in Indonesia. Our advice is take advantage of this! Look at finding staff for more information.

There is a wealth of information about Jakarta. Newspapers, Magazines, Expatriate publications and Internet sites are all available in this city. We've given you details of some of the more popular resources here.

Hobbies and interests has information about learning the language, fitness/health clubs and cultural centres so that you can think about how to fill some of 'you' time!

Culture shock is real and it may happen to you from time to time- read more here

Many of us cannot live without internet connection for long. Our helpful computer guru Hendra of HT Com gives you advice about the best ISP's (internet service providers) here.