Mapping Culture and Connection Through Nightlife

Peta Pesta Venue Registration Form (Desktop): Own a venue? Get discovered by partygoers quick by register your space in minutes!
Peta Pesta AI Assistant Chat Box (Desktop): Ask anything about parties! Your AI rave buddy is ready to guide your next epic night out.
Peta Pesta Ultimate Badges Ready (Gamification): Unlock legendary status! Collect all badges and become the ultimate nightlife navigator
Peta Pesta Edit Profile Page for Users (Desktop): Make it yours! Personalize your vibe, genres, and location to get tailored picks.
Peta Pesta Get Directions with Car Preview (Desktop): Club-hop with ease—get real-time directions and never miss the opening set!
Peta Pesta User Complete Profile: Your party passport is ready! A complete profile means smarter recommendations and surprise perks waiting!
Peta Pesta Venue with Map and Details (Desktop): See the scene in full! Maps, genres, open hours, plan the perfect night with one click
Peta Pesta Venue Registration Form (Mobile): Bring your venue to life on mobile! List your place easy with Google Maps Autocomplete API
Peta Pesta AI Assistant Chat Box (Mobile): On-the-go party finder! Chat with your nightlife assistant anytime, anywhere.
Peta Pesta Get Directions with Motorcycle Preview (Mobile): Zip through the night! Map first the fastest route to fun on your motorbike
Peta Pesta Venue with Map and Details (Mobile): Party intel on your phone! Find nearby venues, crowd vibes, and directions quick in a snap
Peta Pesta Full Venue Profile Looks (Desktop): Dive deep into the scene venue visuals, music styles, crowd type, and contacts in one view!
Peta Pesta Gamification Badges Unlock (Mobile): Discover. Check-in. Win. Collect your party badges right from your phone
Peta Pesta Gamification Badges Unlock (Desktop): Level up your nightlife game! Unlock badges as you explore, check-in, and vibe around town
Peta Pesta User Profile in Mobile Version: Your vibe, your tribe. Set your style and make it unique just for you!

Our stories

Peta Pesta transforms how travelers and locals discover nightlife across Indonesia. It elevates the journey from “where to go tonight?” into a mapped cultural experience—combining planning, real-time streaming, and geo-based discovery into one seamless platform. It’s not just for clubbing; it's to travel through sound, city, and scene.

Inspiration and origin

In 2020, as the world locked down, Indonesia’s vibrant nightlife scene went dark. Clubs closed. DJs lost income. Fans lost connection. From that silence, Peta Pesta was born a way to bring the party back, using the power of Google Maps Platform.

Originally a creative relief effort during lockdowns, Peta Pesta allowed people to "club-hop" across Indonesia virtually. It placed over 150 music venues from bar, lounge, club, studio, cafe to restaurant on an interactive map where users could stream live sets, explore music genres, and support artists all powered by Google Maps Platform APIs.

What it does

Petapesta.com is a live nightlife discovery tool built on Google Maps. It helps users:

Explore cities based on music scenes
Discover live or upcoming DJ sets at mapped venues
Filter venues by genre, popularity, or location
Join live streams or replays directly from the map
Donate to artists or clubs (optional)
Earn badges for exploration through gamification

It turns the map into a musical journey, not just a navigation tool.

Google Maps Platform Integration

PetaPesta leverages multiple Google Maps Platform APIs:

Maps JavaScript API: powering the venue map, custom marker layers, and interactivity
Geocoding API: enabling to convert geospatial data (latitude and longitude) to formatted addresses easily read by humans.
Places API: enriching venue metadata, dynamic tagging and give recommendation for search place. (Places detail and Autocomplete API to help venue owners when register their existing venue from Google Business Profile to Peta Pesta)
Routes API (compute route): for hybrid travel + nightlife route planning

History and evolution

💡 Launched in 2020 with only 10 Jakarta-based venues
📍 Expanded to 150+ clubs nationwide also SEA (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand & Philippines)
📈 Projected to host thousands of DJ sets, reaching thousands of users
💸 Enabled donations and monetization for artists during lockdown
🔄 Evolved into a hybrid model bridging online discovery with offline events
🕹️ Introduced gamification features (badges, check-ins, seasonal, quests)

Learnings and differentiators

We learn that Maps are not just for directions they’re a canvas for culture
People want to explore spaces emotionally before physically Peta Pesta delivers that for the community
Nightlife is a valid, underrepresented sector in travel-tech and this platform champions it Combining Maps + live stream + game mechanics builds longer, more meaningful engagement

What’s next?

Roll out multi-country support (SEA region Vietnam, Laos)
Add multilingual interface and genre-based auto-suggestions
Enable route planning between events with Directions API
Launch mobile-native version with camera animations and Street View integration
Partner with tourism boards and sponsor for curated nightlife trails per city
Leader boards page to see the users all around Peta Pesta and who's vibing/favourite venues
Fine tune the AI chat agent to make more specific and curated experiences for users

Built With

google-compute-engine
maps-javascript-api
mysql
nestjs
nextjs
node.js
places-api
prisma
routes-api
typescript

Submitted to

Google Maps Platform Awards

Created by

As the Project Manager of Petapesta.com, I shaped the platform’s revamp for the vision to revolutionize nightlife discovery in Southeast Asia through seamless map-based exploration. We crafted a clear roadmap aligning our creative goals like gamification and community engagement with Google Maps Platform’s capabilities. I led cross-functional teams of designers, developers, and content creators, driving agile workflows to ensure timely delivery and strategic feature prioritization that balanced user delight with scalability.

Albi Panatagama
Marketing pro with 8+ yrs experience driving B2B/B2C growth through creative, data-driven campaigns across diverse industries.
I worked on the back-end for this project. The framework I used is Nestjs that runs in Node.js environment and TypeScript as the programming language and using prisma as an ORM. the database used in this project is MySQL. I also used Swagger for API documentation. The backend is also responsible to apply the compute route API to calculate the route from user coordinates to the venue coordinates.

Samuel Palungan Rantetoding
I managed the team and supported the implementation of the Google Maps API, including handling development bugs and preparing necessary dependencies.

Nanda Wawan Kurniawan
I was responsible for UI/UX design and promotional video production for the Peta Pesta website. My work involved crafting an engaging and intuitive user interface that reflects the vibrant, youthful energy of Southeast Asia’s nightlife scene, while ensuring a seamless and dynamic user experience across devices. In addition, I produced a two-minute promotional video that captures the essence of the platform, combining motion graphics, live footage, and voice over to highlight key features and the story behind Peta Pesta’s evolution from a pandemic response to a hybrid digital nightlife ecosystem.

Awang Diandaru
I work as Technical Support. My role is to prepare the server environment, from domains and cloud hosting to application servers and database servers. This ensures that applications developed by all developers are presented properly and are accessible, while ensuring that all entities operate securely.

Yusuf Hamdani Suherman
I worked on the AI assistant chat bot in the project using Google's AI agents development platform googleADK.

Roberto Benedict
I worked on the marketing and social media promotion of this project. I created the content plan and social media strategy to introduce the virtual map experience to the public. My tasks included writing promotional copy for Instagram and LinkedIn posts, designing the campaign message, and preparing visual briefs to highlight the platform’s key features and benefits.

Aurellia Maharani
I worked on the front-end. it was my first time using google maps api, which was challenging, but i learned a lot. this was also my first time making a mobile responsive web using next.js

Gabriel Tangke