Jakarta — Useful ratios
Prices put in perspective: what a meal, a room or a commute in Jakarta costs in work time and wage share.
In work time
One hour at minimum wage buys about 3.3 litres of Pertalite.
A specialty-café latte costs about 1.6 times a cup of local kopi susu.
As a share of the minimum wage
A simple boarding room (kos) takes about 19% of the monthly minimum wage.
Three warung meals a day for a month take about 39% of the minimum wage.
A daily return trip by city bus costs about 2.7% of the minimum wage.
Living simply costs about 64% of the minimum wage, leaving 36% for everything else.
The official poverty line per person is about 16% of the minimum wage.
The city in numbers
Jakarta produces about 5.3 times a year of minimum wage per resident.
About 16,400 people share every square kilometre.
There are about 100.5 men for every 100 women.
Every 100 working-age residents support about 41 children and seniors.
Work time uses the official rule of 173 working hours per month (hourly wage = monthly wage ÷ 173). Prices use the middle of each range on the economics page, except bus fares, which use the standard adult fare.economics page