Indonesia - Where to get postcards

Back from Yogyakarta, I was only there a few days so this is a small update:

This shop still exists, and still has postcards. I could see that from the outside but I was not able to go back and shop there during opening hours, so I don’t know the price. The opening hours are like 11am to 5pm or sometimes 12 to 5pm. Mainly on Fri-Sat-Sun but maybe other days - the owner seems to update via Instagram daily. But because I was always elsewhere sightseeing, I wasn’t able to go back.

I found postcards tucked in in a tourist shop in front of Mall Malioboro. It was not a bookshop, it had souvenirs like many others, and an ice cream counter. But we went inside and all at the back, not visibile from the street, was a postcard rack. The price was IDR 13,000. That is a lot more than the prices listed in this thread from only 3-4 years ago! The postcards were good quality and seemed similar to those sold at the Lucky Boomerang bookshop - I would guess the price in the bookshop is similar nowadays.

I didn’t see any postcards for sale at the main post office.

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Halo:)))
Quick update: from Jakarta

*Sarinah mall - a huge pile of plcards, mosty batik motive, each 15.000

  • Periplus - about 10 sorts of cards, one is for 7.000

Unluckily i did go in this order:D

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Just thought i would share my favourite places in Ubud

This post office https://maps.app.goo.gl/d2Pvo4vK46LskXQp7 the cheapest cards, i think 6000, the nicest people

Periplus - a little more expensive, still good

Ganesha https://maps.app.goo.gl/W3zJj8yfSKyNPEu9A some of them are different than the usual ones

Nacivet Art Photography Gallery Ubud probably my favourite one, beautiful photos plus a lot of them like a postcard - different than the other ones and was supercheap, even cheaper than the postoffice

And while im in it, my favourite and one of few places in Lombok - Kuta - Jl Raya Kuta, if driving from the seaside somewhere on the right side is a small post office - they have beuatiful cards for nice prices, i think 7000, the people are supernice, but sometimes they can be run out of the stamps - could come next day or just pay and they would send it next day. I did come next day but i think nwo i would even trust them to send it:)))

Another update - Makassar airport, the suvenir shops. 5000 for piece, cca 7 designs for Tana Toraja.

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