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Questions before you book? Message Mike on WhatsApp, Telegram or Zalo at +84 383 390 963 (a Vietnam number), or email mkcenter007@gmail.com.
One-to-one online lessons, not an IELTS class in Jakarta
This is private online coaching rather than a classroom course. Mike holds the Cambridge CELTA, is based in Hanoi and teaches every session himself, one-to-one and live on Google Meet, in English only (not Bahasa Indonesia). A regular session lasts 60 minutes, and there is no classroom or group class in Jakarta. In his own IELTS Mike scored 7.5 overall and 8.5 in Speaking (about Mike).
A session covers Listening, Reading, Writing (Task 1 and Task 2, marked against the public band descriptors) and Speaking (Parts 1, 2 and 3 in the real test format), with feedback during the session (see IELTS Speaking coaching and IELTS Writing feedback). Three anonymous results have been reported back to Mike: from 6.0 to 7.5 overall, from 5.5 to 7.0 in Writing and from 6.5 to 8.0 in Speaking. No band is promised: progress depends on your starting point and the work between sessions.
Price, payment and booking steps are the same across Indonesia and are on the Indonesia page, which also compares Bali and Papua with Hanoi. This page covers Jakarta: the clock and the test venues.
Lessons and terms at a glance
These are the terms that apply to students in Jakarta. The booking page shows your price before you pay.
| Term | What applies in Jakarta |
|---|---|
| Teacher | Mike, Cambridge CELTA (July 2017), based in Hanoi. Every lesson is taught by Mike, one-to-one. |
| Format | Online only, live on Google Meet. No classroom, group class or test centre run by Band Booster in Jakarta. |
| Language | English. Lessons are not taught in Bahasa Indonesia. |
| Time zone | Jakarta (WIB, UTC+7) has the same clock time as Hanoi all year. The booking calendar shows open slots in your own time zone. |
| Regular lesson | 60 minutes, with feedback during the lesson. Lessons cover Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. |
| Trial | A paid 30-minute trial, available once per student, on the first booking. |
| Commitment | No subscription and no package to commit to. Lessons are booked one at a time or several at once. |
| Rescheduling | At no charge up to 12 hours before the lesson. Cancellations inside 12 hours are not refunded. |
| Price tier | The same regional price tier as Vietnam. The booking page shows your price in your own currency before you pay; payment is explained on the Indonesia page. |
| The IELTS test | Not run by Band Booster. You book the test separately with a test provider, which sets its own fees and dates. |
Jakarta keeps Hanoi's clock time, all year
The IANA time zone database puts Jakarta in Western Indonesia Time (WIB), UTC+7, and Vietnam, Hanoi included, at UTC+7. Neither currently uses daylight saving, so the difference is zero hours all year: 19:00 in Hanoi is 19:00 in Jakarta. The calendar on the booking page shows each slot in your own time zone. Mike's calendar decides which slots are open, and no particular hours are promised.
IELTS test venues in Jakarta: IDP's list and the British Council's pages
You choose a provider and then a test session, so check the venue on the session and on your booking confirmation.
Band Booster is a private tutor, not a test centre. It does not register candidates, set exam fees or choose test dates, and it is not affiliated with IDP or the British Council. This section was read on IDP's Indonesia pages and ielts.org in October 2026. Lists and tags change, so confirm on the provider's page before you book. It gives areas, not street addresses.
IELTS test venues in Jakarta: IDP's list
IDP's test locations and dates page showed 34 test centres across Indonesia when read, and its city list includes a test-session listing for each of four Jakarta districts: Jakarta Barat (west), Pusat (central), Selatan (south) and Utara (north). Seven venue cards show addresses in those four districts, and each card links to its test sessions. The table groups the venues by the district in each card's address.
| District in the card's address | Venues | Tags on IDP's venue cards |
|---|---|---|
| Barat | IDP Kebon Jeruk; one venue listed under another institution's name | Both show One Skill Retake supported; Kebon Jeruk also shows Accessible test centre |
| Pusat | One venue listed under another institution's name | One Skill Retake supported |
| Selatan | IDP Kuningan; IELTS Test Centre Pondok Indah | Both show One Skill Retake supported and Accessible test centre |
| Utara | IDP Kelapa Gading; one venue listed under another institution's name | Both show One Skill Retake supported; Kelapa Gading also shows Accessible test centre |
IDP's IELTS on Computer page names five IDP centres in and near Jakarta: Kuningan, Pondok Indah, Kebon Jeruk, Kelapa Gading and Gading Serpong in Tangerang. The venue cards do not say which test types each venue offers, so this page makes no per-venue claim about format.
IELTS test venues in Jakarta: the British Council
This page does not list the British Council's Jakarta venues. Use its Indonesia dates, fees and locations page for the current venues, test dates and fees, and check the venue on your booking.
Computer delivery and the Speaking interview
An announcement on IDP Indonesia's paper-based IELTS page says that from July 2026 all IELTS tests will be delivered on computer, with IELTS Life Skills staying on paper. IDP's location page still describes a choice of computer or paper, which does not match that announcement, so confirm the format on your session, whichever provider you book with.
According to ielts.org's ways-to-take page, on computer Listening, Reading and Writing are on screen and Speaking at a test centre is a face-to-face session with a trained examiner, while its Guide for Test Takers says face to face or via video call. IDP Indonesia's IELTS on Computer page also says Speaking stays face to face, but its Indonesian-language Speaking page says face to face or by video call, and the British Council Indonesia Foundation's Academic and General Training pages say its test centres (some of them, on the General Training page) deliver Speaking by video call. None of these pages says which venue uses which method, so ask your provider how and when your own Speaking test will be held. The detail is on computer-delivered IELTS in Indonesia and the Speaking tutor page for Indonesia. ielts.org also describes a Writing on Paper option in selected countries; the IDP pages read here do not say whether any Jakarta venue offers it, and the British Council Indonesia Foundation's English pages describe the option but give no venue list.
One Skill Retake at Jakarta venues
IDP tags all seven of its Jakarta-district venues as supporting One Skill Retake. The British Council's locations page does not mark which of its venues offer it, but the ielts.org test-centre finder tags some British Council cards for Indonesia with One Skill Retake and others without (34 of 56 when read on 22 October 2026, and one venue can appear on several cards with different tags). Ask the British Council about your venue before you rely on it, and see its One Skill Retake page. ielts.org sets the conditions (a full test on computer first, a centre that offers it, the retake within 60 days), and One Skill Retake or a full retake compares the options.
Preparing for a computer test
IDP Indonesia publishes computer-based familiarisation tests, and computer-delivered IELTS in Indonesia covers practice for the computer format. As general teaching advice, not provider guidance, and with no band promised: bring a timed Writing answer, or the questions you missed in a sample test, to a lesson and go through why. The Speaking Part 2 timer helps with long-turn practice.
Before you book the test: requirements, fees and dates
The organisation receiving your result decides which test and score it needs. ielts.org's test types page says Listening and Speaking are the same in Academic and General Training, while Reading and Writing differ, and IDP Indonesia says each organisation sets its own required score. For a scholarship, read the requirement on the programme's own page. This page states no target score; see Academic vs General Training and IELTS scores for study abroad.
The exam fee is charged by the provider you book with, not by Band Booster, and fees and dates change, so this page quotes none. Use the test-session links on IDP's test locations page, or the British Council's dates, fees and locations page.
Booking lessons from Jakarta
Pick a slot on the booking page, see your price in your own currency, and pay with one of the options shown there. A paid 30-minute trial can be taken once per student, on a first booking. You can reschedule at no charge up to 12 hours before a slot. How to choose an online IELTS tutor lists what to ask any tutor, this one included.