Jakarta has more shopping centres than you could spend a month of Sundays in, and the general rule in the capital is, the bigger, the better.
Pasar Pagi Mangga Dua
This is an enormous wholesale market with some of Jakarta's cheapest clothes, accessories and shoes, as well as a host of other goods. Quality can be problem, though.
Mangga Dua Mall
Across the road from Pasar Pagi Mangga Dua, this is the place for computers, electronics, DVDs and CDs (and even Russian watches). The surrounding area has other malls, making it southeast Asia's biggert shopping precinct.
Blok M Mall
This mall by the large bus terminal has scores of small, reasonably priced shops offering clothes, shoes, CDs and DVDs
Plasa Indonesia
Exclusive Plaza Indonesia tops Jakarta's alist for shopping centres, with dozens of designer stores.There's good, surprisingly inexpensive food court in the basement
Plaza Senayan
This huge plaza has a cinema, one of the city's best clubs and stores including Marks and Spencers dan Prada trough prices are very steep
FX Mall
an upmarket mall in the senayan district, the attraction here is the 72m transparent cylindrical slide that shoots you down six stories in about 12 seonds - spend 100.000 IDR and the ride is free