Jakarta

in Indonesia

Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta is the largest metropole in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The Special Capital Region has a status equivalent to that of a province and is bordered by two other provinces: West Java to the south and east; and Banten to the west. Its coastline faces the Java Sea to the north, and it shares a maritime border with Lampung to the west. Jakarta's metropolitan area is ASEAN's second largest economy after Singapore. In 2023, the city's GDP PPP was estimated at US$724.010 billion.

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Death of Thomas Lanckester
November 28, 1706
Occupation (British Consul for the island of Java) of Samuel Rushton Lankester
from around November 9, 1892 until around October 13, 1896[1]
Death of Samuel Rushton Lankester
October 13, 1896[2]