Opening on 18 September, Indonesia Design Week (IDW) 2026 is set to be the event’s biggest iteration yet. Previously set within the grounds of Indonesia Design District PIK2, this year’s expo will spread beyond these borders, with exhibitions, installations, fashion, craft and community programmes taking place across several destinations in PIK and PIK2 until 27 September.
This year’s theme, Collective Culture, is what has set this expansion in motion: a way to integrate many disciplines and communities into the extended programme. Designers and architects will appear alongside artists, businesses, students, artisans and creative organisations, with events moving between showrooms, lifestyle destinations and public spaces. These programmes will take place across IDD PIK2, Batavia PIK, Pantjoran PIK, Central Market PIK, By The Sea PIK, Land’s End PIK and Orange Groves PIK2.
Indonesia Design Week 2026 is divided into three programme pillars comprising Main Highlights, Experience Programs, and Community and Supporting Events. The line-up moves from furniture and interiors to contemporary art, fashion and Indonesian craft, while talks, installations, exhibitions and community-led activities offer a broader look at what Indonesia’s creative scene is producing now.
Among the major international additions is the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection Exhibition, presented in Indonesia for the first time from 18 September to 18 October. The collection comes from SaloneSatellitem, Salone del Mobile.Milano’s platform for emerging international design talent, and introduces Indonesian audiences to a selection of works by young designers who have appeared through the programme.
The exhibition is supported by the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute Jakarta and the Italian Trade Agency, extending the exchange established around Italian Design Day 2026. Indonesia has already taken its turn on the international stage, where earlier this year, IDD PIK2 joined Salone del Mobile.Milano with the IDD Pavilion, bringing Indonesian contemporary design, craftsmanship and material heritage to a global audience.
Back in Jakarta, the focus shifts to work being produced closer to home. ICAD By The Bay, organised with Indonesian Contemporary Art & Design, will transform selected IDD PIK2 stores into temporary galleries, inserting contemporary artworks directly into spaces filled with furniture, products and interior displays. The collaboration is supported by Emporium Marble and the Ministry of Creative Economy.
IDW, ICAD and the Ministry of Creative Economy have also selected Indonesian intellectual properties for the ICAD By The Bay Pop-Up Merchandise, putting local characters and visual identities onto products visitors can see, collect and take home.
Visitors interested in objects they can actually take home should also make time for Artisan Alley. Developed with the Ministry of Industry and the Indonesian Design Development Center, the marketplace gathers export-ready products, emerging craft labels and makers from different parts of Indonesia, with materials, techniques and new applications on display and available to browse.
Jember Fashion Carnaval takes the programme from display to spectacle. Presented in collaboration with JFC and Batavia Tales, the performance brings large-scale costumes and wearable art inspired by Indonesian cultural references into motion, adding fashion and live performance to IDW’s mix of interiors, objects and contemporary art.
IDW 2026 also leaves room for a more social, hands-on side of design. IDW Design Spotlight, Sips and Tip Social Night and the FIRM Office Grand Prix mix workshops, networking, brand experiences and design-led activities, creating more informal ways for visitors and creative communities to meet.
Education continues through the IDD Insight Trip, which invites students, professionals and creative communities from universities in Indonesia and overseas to join curated tours of exhibitions, installations and showrooms. Creative workshops, tenant-led programmes and merchandise collaborations with Indonesian artisans and brands will also run throughout the event.
“This year, we wanted Indonesia Design Week to evolve beyond a single destination and become an experience that visitors can explore across the wider PIK2 district. By expanding into multiple lifestyle and cultural destinations, we are creating new ways for people to discover how design shapes everyday life, public spaces, and communities,” said Adityo Ramadhan Dharmanto, Marketing Communication Deputy Department Head of Indonesia Design District PIK2.
The wider footprint gives visitors plenty of freedom to decide what their own version of Indonesia Design Week looks like. One route might begin with international furniture and contemporary art at IDD, another with Indonesian craft, fashion or a workshop elsewhere in PIK. With the programme spread across the district, IDW 2026 makes a simple proposition out of its Collective Culture theme. Design is easier to understand when you can walk through it, use it, wear it, discuss it and occasionally take a piece of it home!
IDW 2026 takes place from 18 to 27 September 2026.
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