The heat, the traffic - the food. Plunging into Indonesian life, media intern Paridhi Bakshi spent six weeks in Jakarta earlier this year as part of the 2025 Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). This internship programme is for emerging journalists and provides language training and seminars followed by a media work placement. Paridhi reports back on how she found her time in the country and at the Jakarta Post's newsroom.