Comparing chains across a country usually means comparing store counts. In Indonesia that comparison mostly cannot be made, because the numbers on offer are measured differently, dated differently or not dated at all. Knowing which figures are solid is more valuable than the figures themselves.
The one coffee chain with real numbers
Fore Coffee is listed as FORE, following an offering of 1,880,000,000 shares at Rp 188.00 with the regulator's effective statement dated 27 March 2025. Its own two documents give the listing date as 11 April and 14 April 2025 respectively, an unresolved discrepancy.
Its store figures are properly dated, which makes them unusual here. At 30 June 2026 it operated 363 coffee stores in Indonesia, 10 doughnut stores and 4 coffee stores in Singapore, 377 in total, against 322 at 31 December 2025. Revenue for 2025 rose 44.14 percent to Rp 1.50 trillion, with profit for the year up 54.82 percent to Rp 90.13 billion.
Control, however, is offshore: Fore Holdings Pte Ltd of Singapore holds 78.917 percent, with the ultimate controlling shareholder given as EVLab Fore Pte Ltd. Domestic listing and domestic control are not the same thing. We cover which shelf brands are Indonesian in a separate guide.
The rest of the coffee sector
Kopi Kenangan states on its own site that it has more than 800 stores across 45 cities and started operating in 2017, with no date attached to the store figure and surrounding statistics referencing 2020 and 2021. Its legal entity, per its own copyright line, is PT Bumi Berkah Boga. It is not listed and publishes no financials.
Janji Jiwa, operated by PT Luna Boga Narayan, publishes no outlet total at all. For two further chains commonly named alongside these, no official corporate site could be reached across multiple candidate domains, so nothing is stated about them.
Food chains, and what they do say
Bakmi GM is the most usefully documented. Its parent is PT Griya Miesejati; the restaurant was founded in 1959 as Bakmi Gajah Mada by Tjhai Sioe and Loei Kwai Fong, with the first branch at Melawai in 1971. It states outlets across Jabodetabek, Bandung, Surabaya and Bali, and more than 30,000 customers a day, the last undated. It is the only chain here that names Bandung in its own corporate copy.
Es Teler 77 operates under PT Top Food Indonesia and states it has served customers since 1982. J.CO Donuts & Coffee states more than 300 stores worldwide and a first store in June 2005, with no Indonesia-only count and no date. HokBen's pages carry the entity PT Eka Bogainti in the copyright notice but no ownership statement at all, so whether it runs under a Japanese licence is not something this guide asserts. Richeese Factory is confirmed as a brand of Nabati Group, with PT Richeese Kuliner Indonesia as the restaurant entity, but no outlet count is published.
Convenience and supermarkets
Indomaret, run by PT Indomarco Prismatama since 1988, publishes 24,000 stores, 33 branches and 190,000 employees as animated counters, along with 5,793 franchisees, 37 distribution centres, 27 depots, annual sales above Rp 100 trillion and more than 225 million transactions a month. None of it is dated, and the company is not listed.
Super Indo describes itself as a partnership between Salim Group of Indonesia and Ahold Delhaize of the Netherlands since 1997, with outlets across more than 50 cities and regencies in Java and southern Sumatra and more than 12,000 employees. Ahold Delhaize's own material, reproduced on Super Indo's site, lists Indonesia as a joint venture rather than one of its 17 consolidated brand markets.
Hypermart's operator, PT Matahari Putra Prima Tbk, trades as MPPA and publishes more than 170 multi-format stores across 78 cities under the Hypermart, FoodMart, Hyfresh, Primo, Boston and FMX banners. Its 2025 figures are net sales of Rp 7.25 trillion and a loss of Rp 152.19 billion. The store figure is a multi-format total and carries no date. A separate guide takes up how Indonesian prices are set.
Pharmacies, where the ownership is clearest
Kimia Farma is indirectly state-owned. Its second-quarter 2026 statements record PT Bio Farma as holding 89.82 percent and state that the Government of Indonesia is the ultimate parent, with a single series A Dwiwarna golden share held by the state. It listed on 4 July 2001 and reports more than 1,232 pharmacies, though with only the words "to date" as dating. First-half 2026 net sales were Rp 4.70 trillion. Retail runs through PT Kimia Farma Apotek at 59.99 percent.
Apotek K-24 states it has operated since 2002 from Yogyakarta with more than 900 outlets across 173 cities and regencies and 29 provinces, growing through both franchising and company-owned stores, and describes itself as the first genuinely Indonesian pharmacy to be franchised. The figures are undated.
The two familiar foreign names are straightforwardly foreign. Guardian belongs to DFI Retail Group, whose 2025 report gives a group network of 7,580 outlets with 1,533 in health and beauty; its only Indonesia-specific figure is a target of approximately 750 stores by 2028, which is not a current count. Watsons belongs to A.S. Watson Group, a member of CK Hutchison, which publishes over 17,000 stores globally with no country breakdown.
The franchise rule worth knowing
Franchising in Indonesia is legally gated in a way with few parallels. Under the 2024 franchise regulation, effective 2 September 2024, a business may not be called or use the word waralaba, franchise, unless the operator holds a registration certificate. That certificate is issued through the online single submission system rather than by the trade ministry directly, and remains valid for as long as the franchise business operates.
Both franchisor and franchisee must register, the first the prospectus and the second the agreement, and the prospectus must disclose the last two years' financial statements and the number of franchise outlets to the counterparty. So the disclosure a franchisee sees is far fuller than anything the public gets. A companion guide sets out export and domestic product versions.
What this guide does not cover
Alfamart and Alfamidi are omitted entirely: every route to a primary source failed, so no ticker, store count, revenue or shareholding appears. Tomoro Coffee, Kopi Soe, Solaria and Sederhana are omitted because no official corporate site could be reached. HokBen's ownership, J.CO's legal entity, Apotek K-24's legal entity, Richeese Factory's outlet count, Gramedia's parentage and the Transmart to CT Corp chain are all unverified. Guardian's and Watsons' Indonesian store counts are not published. Bandung's population and land area could not be retrieved. No branch is named beyond what a company names itself, and no addresses are given. Store counts and ownership change constantly.