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Best book, music and video shops in Jakarta

The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Jakarta, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Toko Buku Immanuel

    Jalan Proklamasi 76

    134 m from Proklamasi LRT station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.369, percentile 100 of 30

  2. 2

    Gramedia Pejaten Village

    THE PARK PEJATEN, Jl. Warung Jati Barat No.39 Lt 1, RT.1/RW.5

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.356, percentile 96.55 of 30

  3. 3

    Gramedia Pintu Air

    Jl. Pintu Air Raya No.72 6, RT.6/RW.1

    488 m from Juanda railway station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.248, percentile 93.1 of 30

  4. 4

    Paperclip

    Kota Kasablanka, Mall, Jl. Raya Casablanca Raya No.Kav. 88, RT.14/RW.5

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.189, percentile 89.66 of 30

  5. 5

    Tiara Shakti

    Jalan Kalibaru Timur VI 140

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.176, percentile 86.21 of 30

  6. 6

    Gramedia Book Store

    Jalan Matraman Raya 46-48 RT.12/RW.2

    716 m from Proklamasi LRT station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.137, percentile 82.76 of 30

  7. 7

    Toko Gunung Agung

    Jalan Kramat Kwitang 38

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.071, percentile 79.31 of 30

  8. 8

    PS Enterprise

    ITC Mangga Dua, Jl. Mangga Dua Raya D No.33 Lt. 2 Blok

    571 m from Kampung Bandan railway station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.064, percentile 75.86 of 30

  9. 9

    Bipolarecords Store

    Jalan Tegalan I 25

    610 m from Pondok Jati railway station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.061, percentile 72.41 of 30

  10. 10

    Toko Alida Solusi Muslim

    Jl. Mampang Prapatan XV C No.50, RT.8/RW.6

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.013, percentile 68.97 of 30

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).