11 cafés in 7 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
Tan Houw Sian founded Kopi Aroma in 1930. The family still ages green beans for years (8 for Arabica, 5 for Robusta) and roasts every morning in a German machine fired with rubber wood.
Order: ground coffee to take home · Arabica or Robusta, aged
💡 It is mainly a roaster and shop, not a sit-down café: come to buy beans and watch the old roaster.
A café in a colonial-era building in Menteng that claims about 150 years of family coffee-roasting experience. It has long been a meeting place for artists, writers, diplomats and students.
Order: kopi tubruk · es kopi susu
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Open since 1927 in Glodok, Jakarta's Chinatown, Tak Kie is known above all for its iced coffee and sits in the Gang Gloria food alley.
Order: es kopi susu (iced milk coffee) · kopi hitam (black)
Ho Kong Djie moved from Bangka to Belitung during the Japanese occupation and opened this coffee shop in 1943. The original still has its old interior and serves his blend of Sumatran Arabica and Javanese Robusta.
Order: kopi hitam · kopi susu · fried cassava on the side
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A long-standing coffee house in Ulee Kareng, Banda Aceh, where Acehnese coffee is drunk through the day.
Order: kopi saring (cloth-strained coffee) · kopi sanger (with condensed milk)
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Lik Man's street stall near Tugu station is where kopi joss was invented. Unable to make the boiled kopi kothok his railway customers asked for, he dropped burning charcoal into brewed coffee instead, and the customers named it kopi joss.
Order: kopi joss (charcoal coffee) · nasi kucing
💡 Best at night, sitting on mats by the stall. Leave the charcoal in the glass.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Revolver opened in 2012 as a tiny café down a Seminyak lane and has grown into a roastery and several venues around Bali.
Order: flat white · cold brew
💡 The original is hidden down a narrow gang off Jl. Kayu Aya.
Seniman calls itself the original specialty coffee and design studio, and its Ubud café on Jl. Sri Wedari remains its home base.
Order: Bali Kintamani pour-over · espresso
A Jakarta specialty chain focused on Indonesian beans, ranked 78th in The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops 2025, the only Indonesian shop on that list.
Order: Indonesian single-origin filter · kopi susu
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
An award-winning Indonesian roaster with cafés in Jakarta and Singapore, focused on showing the range of Indonesian origins.
Order: Indonesian single origin pour-over · es kopi susu
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A small manual-brew bar that has been brewing in Yogyakarta for years and works with growers on picking practices, for example in Senggani, Banjarnegara.
Order: V60 of an Indonesian single origin
💡 Ask the brewer for a recommendation.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.