Jakarta makes you argue... really?
I concur with Hilo. Wow there are some argumentative people on here. I'd thought there would be better things to do in Jakarta than bicker online. Maybe you are doing it in traffic in yet another jam to fill in time and take out your anguish. Myself, I just get a feeling like a kid heading off to the candy shop, but each to their own.
For sure, some things have deteriorated in recent years, with the exception of price which has massively escalated! Funnily enough, only in areas that use English as the main language. Perhaps it is because of the argumentative types dropping by now. Local areas, pricing has seemingly barely moved over a long time. Regardless, I always seem to find a happy medium between price, service, inflation and Forex effects when there. It's just not like shooting fish in a barrel anymore. They've just upped the difficulty to a small pond.
It is easy on here to pick the residents. Strangely they seem to be the ones being argued at. And never around posting on a Friday or Saturday night Jakarta time. Why, it's like you guys have something better to do. What on earth could it be?
BTW my experience in waiting for bags in Jakarta is skewed heavily towards Hihister's in recent years. If you see them on the carousel within half an hour of touchdown, you're doing extremely well.