Record stores in Jakarta

Jakarta, Jakarta has 2 record stores on the map. That's 2 record shops mapped around Jakarta. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Jakarta (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Nuansa Musik 2 and WAAR PRODUCTIONS. If a record shop's missing from Jakarta's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Jakarta record lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Jakarta

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The Jakarta record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Nuansa Musik 2 and WAAR PRODUCTIONS. That's 2 stops on the Jakarta record crawl.

Record digging tips for Jakarta

A few things worth knowing before you work through Jakarta's record stores:

• Buy the weird stuff at Nuansa Musik 2. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Check for warps in the shop at WAAR PRODUCTIONS. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Note the shop's specialties. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Check the turntable section. Many record shops sell used decks and cartridges. A serviced vintage turntable beats a cheap new one.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Jakarta — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Jakarta can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 2 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.