How to get there.
Visas and passports
Visitors must arrive in Indonesia with passports valid for at least six months after arrival and with onward or return tickets. Visas are not required for nationals of: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, New Zealand, Singapore,South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America and West Germany. A non-extendable tourist pass for citizens of these is issued for a maximum of 60 days.
Airline Travel
Garuda Indonesia 
is the Indonesian International Carier. There is another 50 or so carriers flying from Indonesia on domestic flights. 
Lion air just ordered another 56 Boeing 737's and Garuda has an order for 10 Boeing 777's.
Approximate flying times to Jakarta:
- Amsterdam 15 hrs
- Anchorage 15 hrs
- Athens 13 hrs
- Bombay 6 hrs
- Calgary 18.5 hrs
- Frankfurt 15 hrs
- Hong Kong 4.5 hrs
- Honululu 14.5 hrs
- Johannesburg 11.5 hrs
- London 15.5 hrs
- Madrid 16.5 hrs
- Mexico City 22.5 hrs
- New York 21.5 hrs
- Paris 15.5 hrs
- Rome 14.5 hrs
- Seattle 18.5 hrs
- San Francisco 18.2 hrs
- Seoul 7 hrs
- Signapore 1 hrs
- Stockholm 14 hrs
- Sydney 7 hrs
- Tokyo 7.5 hrs
- Vancouver BC 17.5 hrs
- Washington DC 22 hrs
