Recorded using super-powerful camera of EOS 5D Mark III by the Japanese multinational corporation specialized in the manufacture of imaging and optical products known as Canon, Jakarta based photographer Harris Syn recently shared a rare intimate moments of people who lives in North Jakarta under a video called “Down North Jakarta”. Produced by a friend and partner known as Surya Penny, this visual movement video is very nostalgic, artsy, and shows various places in North Jakarta such as the Muara Angke Traditional Fish Market that is known for its very fishy, smelly, crowded and dirty place. But somehow it provided an authentic, colorful, and exciting multi-sensory experience that gave him an insight into the lives of Indonesians who worked in the fishing and fish processing industries. Along with those, Harris also went to Sunda Kelapa Harbour, where he shared a good look of pinisi, solid wood sailing boats, sails around the archipelago carrying freight around the islands. They are beautiful and still working perfectly. According to him, the place is fascinating to watch as the crew loading and unloading cargo like teak planks by using only a narrow board. For the complete story of his visual journey to the North Jakarta please watch the entire video below. To understand more about each pictures that we presented above, you can always visit his official Instagram account.
North Jakarta or Jakarta Utara in Bahasa is one of the five areas of DKI Jakarta, Indonesia. North Jakarta contains the entire coastal area within Jakarta Special District. In North Jakarta, an area at the estuary of Ciliwung river was the main port for the kingdom of Tarumanegara, which later grew to become Jakarta. Many historic sites and artefacts of Jakarta can be found in North Jakarta. Both ports of Tanjung Priok and historic Sunda Kelapa are located in the city. The city, which had 1.645.312 inhabitants at the 2010 census, has its administrative centre in Tanjung Priok. North Jakarta contains some of Jakarta’s original natural mangrove forests. As the city has developed, some of this mangrove forest was converted into urban areas. However, a reforestation project aimed at planting mangroves within an area of 400 hectares has already been enacted and is scheduled to be finished in 2012. The main goal of the project is to minimized abrasion in the coastal area, especially around the Pantai Indah Kapuk area. North Jakarta is bounded by Java Sea to the north, Bekasi to the east, West Jakarta, Central Jakarta and East Jakarta to the south, plus Tangerang to the west.