Palmerah Market: an introduction

I've been taking a lot of pictures at the Palmerah marketplace lately. I'll be posting them gradually, and I figured I'd have some geeky fun first and draw a map to give you a sense of how the whole place is laid out. You can click on the map for a bigger version.

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This seems to be a pretty typical Indonesian market design: a sort of hulking concrete building with a maze of little stores inside, and a plaza full of stalls outside.

Inside the building are durable goods like housewares, jewelry and clothes. Produce stays outside. On the second floor of this particular market is a Ramayana department store, your one-stop source for blaring music, junk food and cheap t-shirts.

Here's the front, taken from where the red X is above. You can see some humble fruit stands in the far-right corner.

And here's a picture of the road, taken from the humble fruit stands. This road seriously has more public minivans (mikrolet) than any other place I know in Jakarta. Every minivan route for miles around must come through here. They always create a huge smoggy traffic jam. You can see some fuzzy red rambutans in the corner. More on those later.