On a typical day,
frustrated people stuck in traffic in Jakarta see the city for what it is,
a chaotic mega-city
of over nine million people.
But on Car-Free Sundays the main street in the center of the city
becomes a people-friendly zone.
Here thousands of bikers take over the road.
Some are just learning to bike, others are just along for the ride.
Buses are the only motor vehicles allowed on the road.
Jakarta's Car-Free Sundays programme began in 2007
and has become a place to see and to be seen.
Dian and her finance Rian came to get pre wedding pictures taken at this trendy location.
''We don't want romantic pre-wedding pictures. We want more fun ones.''
Angki and other advocates for rights for the hearing impaired
came to increase public awareness about their cause.
''We are choosing to be here on a Car-Free day so that we don't further disturb the traffic jam in Indonesia.''
The growing popularity of Car-Free Sunday has actually discouraged some serious bikers like Dida Sarkan.
''We cannot really bike some times [there are] a lot of crowded people and they not really disciplined.''
Jakarta officials have said the program reduces pollution,
but urban planner Suryono Herlambang at Tarumanagara University doubts this claim.
''Car-Free Sunday is an interesting idea for Jakarta,
but it is not enough for a mega city like Jakarta city.''
He says, closing one street twice a month,
cannot offset the pollution in a city where over a thousand new cars and motorcycles
are registered every day.
But it does give people like Mesa Zihni
an idea of what Jakarta could be.
''This is what we are looking for, for the future.
Jakarta which is better, no pollution,
and more bicycles than cars.''
But for now this is just a short break
from the seemingly constant traffic jam
that is life in Jakarta.