Where Can I Find Cheap Beer In Jogja?

A few months ago when I boarded the bus TransJogja and spoke with two tourists from Australia, they complained about hard to find shops selling beer in Yogyakarta. Whereas a few weeks earlier, there was an article in a travel website saying that Yogyakarta is the city with the cheapest beer prices in the world.

Apparently they did not know that a few weeks earlier, the Government of Republic of Indonesia through the trade ministry has just tightened the distribution of beer in society. So I explained about the new policy. I myself really do not like this policy. The minister said that the beer distribution rules intended to save the young generation from the dangers of alcohol. If the reason it is used, then the state should also prohibits tobacco. Is not smoking is also harmful to health? I understand the dangers of smoking even greater than beer. Beer does not make people drunk, because the alcohol content of beer is only approximately 4.7%. For me, this beer prohibition only to satisfy and accommodate Islamic party faction in parliament, who lost in the 2014 elections.


The impact of this legislation is now increasingly difficult to find sellers of beer, even in tourist places visited by many foreign tourists. Beer banned for sale in minimarkets, retailers and shops. You can only find beer in supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, discotheques and similar places.

Although officially supermarkets are allowed to sell beer, it turns out at the beginning of the application of this rule many supermarkets are afraid to sell beer. So far, to my knowledge there is only one supermarket that sells beer in Yogyakarta, ie at Malioboro Mall Hero Supermarket. Just go to Lower Ground Floor, and you will find the beers and other alcoholic drinks on the left side of the supermarket. The price is 2-3 times cheaper than if you buy in in hotel or discotheque.