Java Jazz Festival

The festival

Java Jazz Festival, organized by Java Festival Production, is the largest jazz festival in Southeast Asia and one of the largest jazz gatherings in the southern hemisphere. Created in 2005, it celebrated its 21st anniversary from May 29 to 31, 2026 in a new venue, the Nusantara International Convention Exhibition (NICE) in PIK 2, Tangerang, at the gates of Jakarta, after fifteen years at JIExpo.

Over 150 Indonesian and international musicians performed on ten stages, with an audience expected of up to 120,000 visitors, 52 per cent of whom came from Southeast Asia. The first wave of artists brought together Jon Batiste, eight times winner of the Grammy Awards, South Korean band wave to earth, Lisa Simone, Daniel Caesar, Ella Mai, Incognito, Dave Koz, Earth, Wind & Fire by Al McKay, and Indonesian side Slank, RAN, Bilal Indrajaya and Ziva Magnolya.

Free shuttles linked the festival to the major shopping malls in Jakarta for three days.