Milton Augustino Michiels and his niece Citra Augusta Margriette (front) play kroncong music at home in Kampung Tugu, Jakarta. A tour company that usually runs guided tours of the urban village has launched a virtual tour of it, and other places of interest in the Indonesian capital, amid the coronavirus pandemic that has halted international travel. Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images
Offbeat tours in Jakarta – of a village of Portuguese slave descendants, cemeteries, mosques – move online
- With travel shut down, a tourism entrepreneur and her tour guides in Indonesia had no income for two months, so she decided to make her agency’s tours virtual
- For as little as US$1.70 they take participants to an urban village rich in Portuguese tradition, beautiful graveyards, Jakarta’s Little India, and city mosques
Milton Augustino Michiels and his niece Citra Augusta Margriette (front) play kroncong music at home in Kampung Tugu, Jakarta. A tour company that usually runs guided tours of the urban village has launched a virtual tour of it, and other places of interest in the Indonesian capital, amid the coronavirus pandemic that has halted international travel. Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images
