balloon-making workshops every Sunday, and a packed calendar of activities in the Children’s Art Space.
homewear, such as cushions
emblazoned with the names of Jakarta’s trendiest neighbourhoods.
FROM LEFT: Negroni cocktail; Jakarta Old Town; Writers Bar, Raffles Jakarta PICTURES: Shutterstock
Lotte Shopping
Avenue – handily connected to the
beautiful Raffles hotel – has all the major brands alongside lesser-known ones, including Tony Moly for quirky Korean cosmetics, and The Goods Dept department store for beautiful
13.00: Lotte Shopping Avenue’s close proximity to the Raffles hotel is the perfect excuse to finish your retail therapy fix with what might just be the world’s most beautiful afternoon tea in the hotel’s Writers Bar, with its soothing jazz and breathtaking centrepiece: a shimmering waterfall of suspended crystals.
14.00: Time for an art fix, in this case at Macan, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, which opened in 2017. It’s very family-friendly, with
16.00: Hail a Grab taxi to get to Fatahillah Square in Jakarta’s old town, otherwise known as Old Batavia. Batavia was the name given to the city in the 17th century by the Dutch East India Company. There are several fantastic museums here, including the Jakarta History Museum and Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics. It’s a great people-watching spot – locals come here to hire brightly coloured bikes to pedal around the square. Hire one and you’ll get the use of an equally bright, flower-adorned straw hat.
20.00: Jakarta has Asia’s biggest jazz scene. There’s an annual festival (Joss Stone and Jamie Cullum have both performed) and the city’s got some brilliant jazz venues, including Prohibition Asia,
GETTING THERE
British Airways flies from Heathrow to Jakarta via Kuala Lumpur, with connecting flights on codeshare partner Malaysia Airlines, from £665 including taxes and fees.
ba.com
Rooms at the Raffles Jakarta start at £223.
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a speakeasy-style bar accessed through a toilet. It’s one of Jakarta’s most beautiful watering holes, with murals of a fedora-wearing wise guy and a backlit bar with an art-like display of liquor bottles. Prohibition-era cocktails are the speciality, so toast Indonesia’s capital with a delicious negroni.
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