The Jakarta Globe is a daily English language newspaper in Indonesia, launched on November 12, 2008.

The paper averages 48 pages a day, and publishes Monday to Saturday. It has three sections, and contains (in section A) a range of general news, including metropolitan and national news coverage as well as international news, plus comment, (in section B) Indonesian and world business and sport plus a classified advertising section, and (in section C) an extensive features and lifestyle coverage as well as entertainment, listings and reader service and puzzle/cartoon pages.

Its primary aim is to bring objective, entertaining news and information relevant to lives of readers in Jakarta and Indonesia, and it is marketed primarily at cosmopolitan and well educated Indonesians and expatriates.

Designed as a classic broadsheet adapted to a thinner, easier-to-read page width, it combines a bright colour palette, bold photo usage and clear navigation aids. It uses US spelling and stresses clarity in its editing language to maximise reader appeal.

Jakarta ( /dʒəˈkɑrtə/), officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta), is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre, and with a population of 10,187,595 as of November 2011, it is the most populous city in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia, and is the twelfth-largest city in the world. The official metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabekjur, is the second largest in the world, yet the city's suburbs still continue beyond it. Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC) research. and has an area of 661 square kilometres (255 sq mi)

Based on Brooking Institute survey about growth, in 2011 Jakarta ranked 17th among the world's 200 largest cities, a significant jumps from 2007 when Jakarta ranked 171st. Jakarta has seen more rapid growth than Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Bangkok.