Emergency services in Jakarta are not bilingual or well funded or developed nor is staff well trained or even particularly helpful. Each of the five city's districts - as well as each different service in each area is independent and there is no effective or central “HOTLINE”.

Therefore if you have a genuine safety or medical emergency it is strongly recommended that you contact your Hotel Front Desk (or go to the nearest major hotel) and let them make the necessary calls or arrangements.

All numbers are local. If you are dialing from overseas, you will need to dial your int'l access code then 62 for Indonesia and 21 for Jakarta.

That said, we are not alarmists (we like the view from the penthouse) but if you are one of those persons who counts the doors to the nearest fire exit when you check in, we would suggest you forgo rooms on the upper floors of Jakarta's high rise hotels. When the fire brigade finally does arrive there's a good chance that the ladder won't get much past the 3rd floor - same with the water.