Jakarta: the last sailing schooners of Sunda Kelapa

In the Kota Tua neighborhood, the ancient Dutch Batavia, colonial buildings surround Fatahillah Square, administrative heart of the city during Dutch rule, now lively with street artists.

Just steps away, the Sunda Kelapa port still hosts wooden pinisi schooners today, among the world's last active commercial sailing vessels.

Continuing toward the center, you reach the National Monument, a tower one hundred thirty-two meters tall topped with a flame plated in gold, symbol of Indonesian independence proclaimed in 1945.

Toward evening, the Istiqlal Mosque, among the largest in Southeast Asia, rises directly opposite the city's Catholic cathedral.

The pinisi schooners that still dock at Sunda Kelapa are loaded and unloaded by hand by dock workers, exactly as they were when the port was the main trading post of colonial Batavia.

The proximity between the Istiqlal Mosque and Jakarta's Catholic Cathedral, separated only by a street, is often cited as a symbol of religious coexistence in modern Indonesia.