Presidential Motorcade

So this afternoon lil bro' and I decided to head into Jakarta for a curry, we were barrelling in nicely on the toll road (3 lane dual highway) and had reached about half way when the traffic ground to a dead crawl. We now had 4 lanes of traffic moving slowly and this continued for 1Km or 2 and then we heard a police siren.

Shortly after that a police motorcycle appeared on our left followed by a large black SUV with blacked out windows and blue flashing lights at the front and read. There were another couple of cars behind this and then a black Bentley containing the President of Indonesia (SBY, as he is known) whose private residence is a little way back up the road; there were another couple of unmarked cars behind him and a marked police car with his lights flashing bringing up the rear.

Our driver sensed an opportunity here and latched onto the tail of the police car and we became an unofficial part of the motorcade, what had been 4 lanes had now become 5 as cars bunched up on either side as we snaked our way through them. We only managed 3 or 4 Km before we got cut off from them by a truck and reverted to being ordinary citizens but it was a good buzz while it lasted.

The curry was excellent, washed down with Storm Pale Ales (from Bali) and the only down side was the thunder and lightning storm with tropical downpour that started 30 mins before we had to leave. I only had to dash 6 feet from the restaurant porch to the car but the rain was such that I got soaked doing it.