Festival Jamu Nusantara — Event & QR Check-in Platform

The Problem

Indonesia’s traditional herbal medicine (jamu) is a centuries-old cultural heritage — but events celebrating it still run on manual processes. Festival organizers deal with paper-based registrations, manual attendance tracking, scattered photo galleries, and no way to engage attendees beyond the event itself.

For a national-scale festival hosted by BPOM (Indonesian Food and Drug Authority) at GBK Senayan Jakarta with thousands of attendees, a spreadsheet-and-WhatsApp approach doesn’t scale.

The Solution

Festival Jamu Nusantara is a full-stack event platform that digitizes the entire festival experience — from registration and ticketing to on-site QR check-ins with a gamified points system. Attendees scan QR codes at festival entry and individual booths, earning points for each check-in. Organizers manage everything through a Filament-powered admin CMS.

As the freelance full-stack developer, I built the entire system from architecture to deployment — frontend, backend, admin panel, and server infrastructure.

Key Features

QR Check-in & Points System

• Festival entry QR — Auto-generated 12-character codes award 100 points on scan
• Booth QR codes — Individual booth codes award 50 points per scan
• Mobile scanner — Floating action button activates camera for instant QR scanning
• Activity history — Members view their check-in log and total points

Member System

• Registration — Email/password signup with profile management
• Authentication — Token-based auth via Laravel Sanctum with auto-refresh
• Profile dashboard — Points balance, activity history, and event registrations

Event & Competition Registration

• Three competitions — Mixologist, Temu Lawak, Estafet Permainan Nusantara
• File submissions — Upload up to 6 files per competition registration
• Submission management — Admin review and approval workflow

Photo Gallery

• 6 galleries with 6,600+ images from festival events
• Organized by category — Event highlights, competitions, cultural performances
• Responsive gallery viewer with Swiper carousels

Homepage Experience

• Hero with countdown timer — Dynamic countdown to festival date
• Activity highlights — 10 different festival activities showcased
• Event rundown — 2-day schedule across 5 stages
• Sponsor showcase — Partner logos and Tiket.com ticket integration

Admin CMS (Filament 3)

• Full resource management — Users, festivals, booths, events, submissions, galleries, activities
• Custom admin theme — Branded to match festival design
• Data tables — PowerGrid for searchable, sortable, filterable records
• Sitemap generation — Auto-generated for SEO

What I Learned

• QR codes are deceptively complex — Generating unique codes is easy. Preventing duplicate scans, handling offline scenarios, and validating booth-specific codes in real-time across thousands of concurrent users requires careful planning.
• Cultural design matters — The batik-inspired color palette (beige, brown, gold, green) wasn’t just decorative. It communicated the festival’s identity before users read a single word. Custom fonts (SS Nickson One, Museo) reinforced the heritage feel.
• Event platforms have a hard deadline — Unlike SaaS products, a festival platform must be fully working on event day. There’s no “we’ll fix it next sprint.” This changes how you prioritize and test.
• Gallery at scale — Managing 6,600+ images across 6 galleries taught me about storage optimization, lazy loading strategies, and the importance of CDN for image-heavy event sites.
• Filament is a game-changer for admin panels — What would have taken weeks to build manually was done in days with Filament 3. Custom themes, resource management, and PowerGrid tables out of the box.

Explore the live site at festivaljamunusantara.com. For another full-stack project with role-based systems, see my ERP distribution platform or the Semesa Grande community app.