Where is the best specialty coffee in Jakarta?

Remembrew lists 25 hand-picked specialty cafés in Jakarta, Indonesia. Standouts include 1/15 One Fifteenth Coffee Gandaria, ABCD School of Coffee, Anomali Coffee Menteng, Anomali Coffee Senopati. The densest neighborhoods for coffee are Senopati / SCBD, Kebayoran Baru, Cipete. Every café is chosen for the quality of its coffee, never for payment, so the list reflects the scene rather than who paid to appear.

How many specialty cafés does Jakarta have?

Remembrew tracks 25 specialty cafés in Jakarta that clear our bar for coffee quality. The count reflects the real depth of the local scene rather than a fixed quota, and we add cafés as we verify them.

Which Jakarta neighborhoods are best for coffee?

In Jakarta, the neighborhoods with the most hand-picked specialty cafés are Senopati / SCBD (9), Kebayoran Baru (8), Cipete (4). Each has its own page on Remembrew with the full list and a map.

Does Remembrew take payment to list a café in Jakarta?

No. Remembrew is an independent directory and never accepts payment for a listing or for placement. Cafés appear only because they clear our specialty-coffee bar, and you can read the full criteria on our directory standards page.

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Jakarta, by the cup

Indonesia · 25 hand-picked cafés

Jakarta sits at the heart of one of the world's great coffee-producing nations, and its specialty scene reflects that proximity in unusually direct ways. Roasters like Anomali, Tanamera, and Giyanti built their identities around Indonesian single-origin lots from Aceh Gayo, Flores Bajawa, Toraja, Bali Kintamani, and Papua Wamena at a time when those origins were barely known outside the country, and the resulting culture of origin literacy runs deeper here than in most capital cities. The third-wave movement arrived early relative to Southeast Asian peers, with several of the city's founding cafes dating to 2007 through 2013, and a new generation of roasters and importers continues to push processing experimentation, direct trade, and competition-level brewing into the mainstream.

The specialty geography of Jakarta clusters most densely in South Jakarta, where Senopati and Kebayoran Baru form the de facto center of gravity. Jl. Senopati and the surrounding streets host an extraordinary concentration of serious cafes within walking distance of each other, drawing baristas, importers, and roasters as well as the broader creative class that populates the area. Kemang and Cipete extend the southern specialty corridor with a more neighborhood-settled character, while Menteng in Central Jakarta retains the heritage roasters and quiet colonial-era shophouse settings that defined the scene's earliest years.

What distinguishes Jakarta's coffee culture is the tension between its role as an origin country and its appetite for global influences. Kurasu arrived from Kyoto, Expat. Roasters developed a sourcing model built on 50-plus Indonesian producer families, and the ABCD School of Coffee holds SCA Premier Campus status alongside a market-stall address in Pasar Santa. This layering of grassroots accessibility, institutional seriousness, and genuine terroir proximity produces a specialty scene unlike any other in Asia.

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1/15 One Fifteenth Coffee Gandaria

ABCD School of Coffee

Anomali Coffee Menteng

Anomali Coffee Senopati

Bakoel Koffie Cikini

Common Grounds Coffee Roastery

Crematology Coffee Roasters

Expat. Roasters Jakarta

Filosofi Kopi Melawai

First Crack Coffee Jl. Bumi

Giyanti Coffee Roastery

Kopi Manyar Bintaro

Kopikalyan Cikajang

Koultoura Coffee Senopati

Kurasu Senopati

Monolog Coffee Gunawarman

Ombe Kofie Cikajang

Ombe Kofie Senopati

Pison Coffee Jakarta Senopati

Tanamera Coffee One Pacific Place

Tanamera Coffee Roastery Ahmad Dahlan

Titik Temu Coffee Cipete

Titik Temu Coffee Senopati

Toko Kopi Tuku Cipete

Toodz House Cipete

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