This past weekend, BNI Java Jazz Festival returned to Jakarta’s JIExpo Kemayoran to celebrate its 18th anniversary in style. While billed as a jazz festival – and make no mistake, a jazz festival it ...

The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival was first held in 2005, with over 125 acts playing across 146 shows venues. The first edition had a crowd count of over 47,000 people. Since then, the Java ...

Thu, January 17, 2019 Published on Jan. 17, 2019 Published on 2019-01-17T13:29:17+07:00 he Java Jazz Festival continues its exploration outside its namesake genre as it returns for its 15th edition ...

I’m standing in a hot, cramped toilet cubicle in Jakarta while a man I’ve just met fiddles with something behind the toilet cistern. Seconds later, the entire back wall swings open and I step into ...