Peningapan Is at the bottom end of the scale. Only a bed and if you are lucky a fairly decent mandi, which is an Indonesian shower. It is a huge container filled with water. Water is scooped out and you pour it over yourself.an that’s the way the shower works.

Losmen derived from the Dutch word ‘logement’, lodging, is a simple hotel, sometimes with an attached bathroom. Never a ‘real’ shower, always a mandi. There is no hot water. If you are lucky there is a table and a chair, but no other furniture.

Wisma and Pondok are slightly more upmarket than a losman. Better furnished but still no hot water.

At the top end of the scale are hotels which van rival with hotels in Europe, US or Australia. It’s the price which shows in which country you are. Although in Jakarta some of the big chain hotels may charge up to $ 300 per night