I remember eating at the seafood place, Bandar Jakarta, in Ancol. Where you select the (live) fish yourself and they prepare it for you. There’s one also in Pluit Baywalk.
Anyway, the cats sitting on the wall looked at us with disgust when we threw them something. No way they would eat it.
Our guest returned the next day to Europe, he was already somewhat sick in the airport and was hospitalized during the stop in Singapore. Luckily his health insurance arranged the new flight etc. He says he will never visit Indonesia again.
There are a lot of river, marine contaminations / pollutions in Jakarta due to the scale of manufacturing industries around Jakarta. Some industries just dumb their industrial wastes in the canals, rivers which will end up in the sea.
Also do not forget that some tourists are not as immune as local people who get their bodies naturally trained since in their childhood. In this case the tourists might be getting diarrhoea eating local food which is nothing to do with the dumping of industrial waste.
Even in Bali you will still hear some tourists are getting what the so called Bali Belly which happen because the way the food are prepared, not using a runny tap/filtered water and thus less hygienic
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