Capital City | Jakarta |
Capital location | 6 10 S, 106 49 E |
Capital - history | Founded 1619 by Dutch and became headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. Made captial 1949. Name may come from the Sanskrit Jaya-kerta, meaning "place of victory", or from the Persian word kert, meaning "place". |
Capital - time difference |
UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) note: Indonesia has three time zones |