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Wheels Down, Jakarta

By Jacob Goldstein
Published August 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM EDT
The first thing everyone tells you about Jakarta is don't expect to get anywhere on time. This is the largest city in the world without a mass transit system. The roads are gridlocked all day long. Even the bikes don't move.
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The first thing everyone tells you about Jakarta is don't expect to get anywhere on time. This is the largest city in the world without a mass transit system. The roads are gridlocked all day long. Even the bikes don't move.

Jess Jiang and Robert Smith just got to Jakarta, where cotton is being spun into yarn for the Planet Money men's T-shirt. They'll be posting photos on our new T-shirt Tumblr — assuming they don't spend their whole trip stuck in traffic. #seedtoshirt

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Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is an NPR correspondent and co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He is the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.
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