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Indonesia’s photo booths live in three kinds of places at the same time. This is not the story of a single company:
- Machines in arcades: Timezone game centres have a photo booth called the Snapshot Photobox, which you can use by tapping your game card.
- Self-service stores run in several different ways: a Korean brand whose stores are run by a local partner, a Korean entertainment complex that puts photo booths alongside private karaoke rooms, a self-photo studio with numbered branches in East Java, and a brand whose location list does not separate its own stores from machines placed elsewhere.
- A home-grown chain: Selfie Time runs its own stores and also places unstaffed machines on other businesses’ premises.
The three layers use different units and different counting methods, so this article treats them separately and does not add them into a single figure such as “Indonesia has several hundred stores”. The Indonesia photo booth map on photobooth.joelin.cc records 399 venues and 515 machines, and the page marks itself as checked and updated on 2026-09-21. But of the 515 machines, only 226 are in stores with their own signs; another 213 are placed on other businesses’ premises such as noodle shops, cafés and stations, and 76 are inside Timezone. Of the 399 venues, 220 have no store-type machine at all, so 399 cannot be read as 399 photo booth stores.
Who Selfie Time is, who founded it, where its first store opened, and whether its official store count matches an actual count are all covered in the Selfie Time company study. That article sets out three different accounts of its first store and company founding date side by side, and there is still no conclusion. This article does not pick one of them, and it does not redo the store-count reconciliation.
Below, the store counts for each layer are given in two columns: what the company itself says (or how many entries its official list showed on a given day), and what this site has recorded. The two columns measure different things and are not subtracted from each other.
1. Machines in arcades: Timezone’s Snapshot Photobox
The first layer is not photo booth stores but game centres. Timezone’s game centres in Indonesia contain a type of machine that the company calls the Snapshot Photobox.
The venue page for Timezone Pacific Place in Jakarta (checked October 2, 2026) describes it like this: tap your Powercard (Timezone’s stored-value game card), choose a frame and take photos, and within a few minutes it prints a six-shot collage. Customers do not need to go into a photo booth store; the same card they use for games works for photos.
Timezone’s company history is often taken as the starting point of this line, but the two things need to be kept apart. The About Us page of Timezone Indonesia (checked October 2, 2026) says the company opened its first family entertainment centre in Perth, Australia, in 1978, entered Indonesia in 1995, and now has more than 200 locations in Australia, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. That is the history and international footprint of a game centre company, not the starting point of photo booths in Indonesia. When the Snapshot Photobox was first placed in Indonesian Timezone centres could not be established.
The same applies to machine numbers. Timezone has not published how many Snapshot Photobox machines it has in Indonesia. Its Indonesian website’s sitemap had 82 venue pages on October 2, 2026; that is the number of game centres, and it does not mean each one has a photo booth. This site records 70 venues and 76 machines (the directory page is marked as checked on September 21, 2026), 6 of them marked unconfirmed: on some venue pages the facilities card section has no card for the photo booth, yet the description text mentions one. The same official source contradicts itself, and this site does not pick a side for it.
The name deserves one more note. Timezone Indonesia’s Snapshot Photobox and Taiwan’s Snapshot 妞拍貼 are different companies that happen to share a name. Snapshot 妞拍貼 in Taiwan is a brand operated by this site’s owner and has no partnership or licensing relationship of any kind with Timezone.
2. Self-service stores: four brands, four ways of operating
The second layer is self-service photo studios with their own signs. In Indonesia this layer is not a single store format. The four brands this site has recorded most completely each operate differently. Each of the four has its own subsection, and the subsections are not added together.
Photoism: a Korean brand, run in Indonesia by a local partner
PHOTOISM’s brand logo
Photoism is a Korean brand, but its stores in Indonesia are not run by a subsidiary of the Korean head office. According to this site’s Photoism parent company study, Indonesia is run by a local partner, PT Mitra Foto Abadi, a statement that comes from the company’s own website. The parent company’s financial reports and international expansion are covered in that article and are not repeated here.
Photoism Indonesia’s official Linktree listed 28 stores on October 2, 2026, and nearly all the names on the list are shopping malls (Mall Taman Anggrek, Pondok Indah Mall, Tunjungan Plaza and the like). This site also records 28 venues (September 21, 2026). The two numbers happen to be the same, but they are still two columns measuring different scopes. When Photoism entered Indonesia could not be established.
The 9 most recent posts we saw on October 2, 2026 on Photoism Indonesia’s official Instagram account, @photoism_idn, were all announcements of new collaboration frames featuring Korean idols, athletes or characters. The post below is for a BOYNEXTDOOR idol frame.
Photoism Indonesia’s official Instagram announces a new BOYNEXTDOOR idol frame (the original post by @photoism_idn, shown with Instagram’s official embed and captured on October 2, 2026; if the account deletes the post, it will disappear here too).
Etive: a Korean entertainment complex where photo booths are one of the services
Etive’s brand logo: a blue square icon with the word etive in pink
Etive does not do only photo booths. Etive’s About Us page (checked October 2, 2026) says it was founded in 2022 and offers self-photo studios, Photobox, private karaoke rooms and private cinema rooms; its website tagline is “Your Ultimate Korean Entertainment”. The Etive Box described on its homepage comes in themes such as Wide Angle, Elevator and Vintage, and holds up to 8 people.
There are two official store counts. The About Us page says it “currently has 10 branches”, while the locations page listed 11 names on the same day: Cibubur, Tanjung Duren, Citra 8 Jakarta Barat, Serang, Kelapa Gading, Bandung, Bogor, Kemang, Depok, Bekasi and Tangerang. Most branches on the locations page are marked as being on the second floor (Lt. 2), and several are stated to be shophouses (ruko).
This site records 11 venues, but three of them, Tanjung Duren, Citra 8 and Kelapa Gading, are marked unconfirmed. The reason is that Etive’s website gives one service list shared by the whole brand and does not say store by store which ones have photo booths. Store-level evidence has not yet been found for these three, so this article does not describe them as confirmed to have photo booths. Etive’s price page returned a 404 on October 2, 2026, so this article gives no prices.
Etive’s official Instagram promotes a new headshot package at its Gading Serpong store, which also shows that its stores sell more than photo booth sessions (the original post by @etive.id, shown with Instagram’s official embed and captured on October 2, 2026; if the account deletes the post, it will disappear here too).
Kuy Studio: numbered branches, mostly in East Java
Kuy Studio’s brand logo: a black mountain-shaped icon with the words KUY STUDIO
Kuy Studio’s website title reads “Self foto and Podcast Studio”: besides self-service photos, it also has podcast recording studios.
Kuy Studio’s branch address page (checked October 2, 2026) lists 12 branches by number, from KS 1.0 to KS 14.0, with 6.0 and 11.0 missing. The 12 branches are located as follows:
- 7 in East Java: 3 in Malang, 2 in Surabaya, 1 in Kediri and 1 in Jember.
- The other 5: 1 each in South Jakarta, Bali, Jogja, Semarang and Surakarta.
Unlike Etive, which is concentrated around Greater Jakarta, most of Kuy Studio’s branches are in East Java cities. Its founding year could not be established. This site records 12 venues (September 21, 2026), the same number as the 12 branch numbers on the official address page that day, but the two columns are still kept separate.
A post on Kuy Studio’s official Instagram showing a store wall covered with photos and one finished photo (the original post by @kuystudio, shown with Instagram’s official embed and captured on October 2, 2026; if the account deletes the post, it will disappear here too).
Photomatics: an official location list that does not separate stores from placed machines
Photomatics’ brand logo: the word Photomatics in black script with a starburst
Photomatics’ location list has one distinctive feature: it does not tell you which machines are in its own stores and which are placed in someone else’s café.
Photomatics’ About page (checked October 2, 2026) names Rafif Adhikara as CEO, and its footer reads “Photomatics Group by PT Pionir Pemoeda Berdikara”, with headquarters on the 14th floor of Wisma Bumiputera in South Jakarta. The About page gives neither a founding year nor a total store count. The “70+ Cabang” (70+ branches) that appears on the homepage is the headline of a news report, not a current total from the About page, and this article does not treat it as an official store count.
Photomatics’ locations page had 143 unique venue links on October 2, 2026 (numbered from 1 to 211, with gaps); that is how many entries the official list showed that day. This site records 148 venues and 152 machines (September 21, 2026). This site counts 68 of these machines as store machines and 84 as placed machines. That split is this site’s inference from the type of venue (those in malls or retail shops are counted as stores; those in cafés and other third-party premises as placed machines), not an official classification.
Photomatics’ official Instagram announces “Photobox Airport”, a new airport-themed machine, showing a self-service photo machine with Photomatics printed on its body (the original post by @photomaticsid, shown with Instagram’s official embed and captured on October 2, 2026; if the account deletes the post, it will disappear here too).
Other brands in the directory
This site’s Indonesia page also records five other brands, PhotoBebaz, Papyrus Photo, Seori Studio, PhotoCandy and Photonomics Indonesia, each with between 1 and 12 venues; this article does not cover them one by one. This site has not yet recorded any data on Japanese FURYU or SEGA machines in Indonesia. That means they have not been found yet, not that they have been confirmed absent.
3. A home-grown chain: its own stores, plus machines on other businesses’ premises
Selfie Time’s brand logo: the words Selfie Time in script between two cartoon characters
The third layer is Selfie Time. Its model straddles both sides: its own stores, plus unstaffed machines placed on other businesses’ premises. The stores have signs and staff. An unstaffed machine is a single machine in someone else’s space, such as a mall corridor, a café or a station, with no staff; searching for the brand name on a map usually does not find it, and you have to search for the host venue’s name instead.
This layer stops here. Its operating company, parent group, the three accounts of its first store, the reconciliation of its official store count with this site’s count, and its prices are all in the Selfie Time company study, and are not repeated here.
4. Store counts for the three layers: what the companies say, and what this site recorded
The table below puts the three layers’ figures together, but it is not a ranking table and has no total row. The official column is filled in only for pages this article reopened on October 2, 2026; this site’s column comes from the Indonesia page on photobooth.joelin.cc, marked as checked on September 21, 2026.
| Layer | Brand | Company’s own claim or official list (October 2, 2026) | This site’s count (checked September 21, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcade | Snapshot Photobox (Timezone) | No total for photo booth machines in Indonesia; the 82 venue pages in the sitemap count game centres | 70 venues, 76 machines |
| Self-service store | Photoism | 28 entries in the official Linktree | 28 venues |
| Self-service store | Etive | About page: “10 branches”; locations page: 11 names | 11 venues (3 unconfirmed as to whether they have photo booths) |
| Self-service store | Kuy Studio | 12 numbered branches on the address page | 12 venues |
| Self-service store | Photomatics | No total on the About page; 143 venue links on the locations page | 148 venues, 152 machines |
| Home-grown chain | Selfie Time | See /en/p/9850 | See /en/p/9850 |
What this table shows is how each figure is measured, not which is bigger. Some entries in the official column are self-descriptions (Etive’s 10), some are list entry counts (Photoism’s 28 entries, Photomatics’ 143 links), and some do not exist at all (Timezone). This site’s column counts venues: if two brands are in the same mall, the mall is counted once in each row, so adding up the rows would give more than 399. The two columns are not subtracted from each other, and the rows are not added together.
5. Compared with Vietnam: both in Southeast Asia, but a different shape
Vietnam has many brands each opening their own stores, with no dominant player: this site records more than a hundred brands, most with only one store. Indonesia does not have that shape. One home-grown chain accounts for a large share of the venues this site has recorded, and the rest are layered over game centres and malls. For both countries, these figures describe the distribution of this site’s records, not official market shares.
For how Malaysia places its machines, see Why Malaysia’s Photo Booths Grow in Mall Corridors: machines are mainly in mall corridors, cinemas and neighbourhood malls, while a group of small self-photo studios still exists.
To find a photo booth in Indonesia, go straight to the Indonesia photo booth map on photobooth.joelin.cc, which gives the floor, placement type and source for each machine. The story of the photo booth industry from Japan and Korea to Taiwan, along with brand studies from other Southeast Asian countries, is in the photo booth industry overview. To compare markets country by country, see the World Photo Booth Map.
Article keywords: Indonesia photo booth, Indonesia photobox, Indonesia self-photo studio, Timezone Snapshot Photobox, Photoism Indonesia, Etive, Kuy Studio, Photomatics, Selfie Time, photo booth industry
Frequently asked questions
How many photo booth stores are there in Indonesia?
There is no official nationwide total, and this article does not add the three layers into a single figure. The Indonesia page on photobooth.joelin.cc records 399 venues and 515 machines (marked as checked on September 21, 2026). But 213 of those machines are unstaffed machines placed on other businesses’ premises, 76 are inside Timezone arcades, and 220 venues have no store-type machine at all, so 399 does not mean “399 photo booth stores”.
What is the Snapshot Photobox in Indonesia’s Timezone arcades?
It is a photo booth inside Timezone game centres. You tap Timezone’s Powercard, choose a frame and take photos, and within a few minutes it prints a six-shot collage. Timezone has not published how many there are in Indonesia; photobooth.joelin.cc records 70 venues and 76 machines.
Is Timezone’s Snapshot Photobox related to Taiwan’s Snapshot 妞拍貼?
No. They are different companies that happen to share a name. Taiwan’s Snapshot 妞拍貼 is operated by this site’s owner and has no partnership or licensing relationship with Timezone.
Is Photoism in Indonesia run directly by its Korean head office?
No. Photoism in Indonesia is operated by a local partner, PT Mitra Foto Abadi, according to the company’s own website (see this site’s Photoism parent company study). Its official Linktree listed 28 entries on October 2, 2026, and this site records 28 venues.
Sources: The Chinese original was first published on October 2, 2026 and revised on November 6, 2026 to add supporting images and image notes. Location counts come from photobooth.joelin.cc's Indonesia page, marked as checked on September 21, 2026; official pages and lists were reopened on October 2, 2026.
This English version is based on original Traditional Chinese content on joelin.cc. The language and explanations are localised for international readers. The Traditional Chinese original is the authoritative version — for its complete meaning, please read the original article.