Plaza Indonesia

shaunandtrish
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Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta

  • April 24, 2005
  • Rated 4 of 5 by shaunandtrish from Durham, United Kingdom
Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta

This is a large modern complex in the centre of Jakarta. There are places in Indonesia that will make you feel as though you are well and truly in a third-world country, but this isn't one of them. Its clearly an attempt at ultramodern, upmarket shopping and entertainment. This is where many of the young Indonesian jet-set will come and while away their evenings.

Alongside the shops, you get fast-food restaurants, including Indonesian options, bars, and clubs and even an open-plan gymnasium. It gets busy, and parking outside can be a bit of a trial, but once you're inside, you could be in Tokyo. It's the place to go for your more expensive gifts. Shops tend to be better stocked, so you'll get a better range of the latest fragrances and cosmetics here, for example. What you tend not to get here is local. It definitely leans heavily toward a Western or Japanese shopping model, but I suspect that as the country becomes more prosperous and developed, you'll get more of these.

The bars are flashy, and there are girls with flyers out front trying to lure you in. Perhaps the only thing that reminds you that you are in Indonesia are the low levels of alcohol consumption. Is that a bad thing? Here's the website.

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