Campus and city
UI's main campus in Depok, just south of Jakarta, is one of Asia's greenest urban campuses — roughly 320 hectares with six lakes and large tracts of preserved urban forest, served by its own commuter-rail stations and a free internal bus connector, alongside a separate historic health-sciences campus at Salemba in central Jakarta. Student life is large, active and overwhelmingly Indonesian, with strong faculty-based student organisations, sports, arts and a famously competitive, network-building culture that mirrors UI's role as the elite's training ground. The trade-offs are greater-Jakarta realities: heavy traffic and congestion on the commute into the capital, infrastructure strain, and a predominantly Bahasa-Indonesia-medium environment with less-developed international-student infrastructure than top global destinations.