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GREATER JAKARTA · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Alam Sutera has a strange superpower: everything is ten minutes away and everyone still eats alone. The campus, the malls and the food streets are all here; the standing reason to share a table is the missing piece.
What is Hey Sini?
Hey Sini
nounHey Sini is a weekly social club for making friends as an adult in Jakarta. It seats five compatible people near each other at the same table, on the same night, every week for six weeks, and then the table becomes theirs. It is friendship-first, not a dating app, and it opens neighbourhood by neighbourhood, starting around Senopati.
- Format
- one matched table of five
- Rhythm
- same night, every week · a six-week first cycle
- Where
- Melbourne · Jakarta
- Cost
- free to join · founding Rp 49rb/mo
- Food
- you pay your own bill · we take nothing from venues
- Safety
- public venues · report or block · photo check before matching
- The limit
- we suggest the spot; we do not book, host or attend
- Not
- a dating app, and not one-off meetups
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Why a Alam Sutera table.
Binus Alam Sutera fills the sidewalks with students, Living World and Mall @ Alam Sutera anchor the shopping, IKEA's first Indonesian store sits on the boulevard, and Flavor Bliss exists purely so nobody has to agree on one cuisine. Jl. Jalur Sutera ties it all together.
It is a young, planned, walkable-by-Tangerang-standards pocket, which makes it one of the easiest places in greater Jakarta to keep a weekly table.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Alam Sutera, specifically.
- Binus Alam Sutera students whose group chats never turn into plans
- Young couples and families new to the clusters who want their own people nearby
- Remote workers doing laps of the same three cafes solo
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- Alam Sutera has its own exit off the Jakarta-Merak toll, and once you are in, most of the pocket is a short hop along Jl. Jalur Sutera.
- The rhythm
- Five compatible people near you, the same night, every week for six weeks. We re-seat you if it is not right.
- The cost
- Free to join. A founding seat is Rp 49rb/mo, locked for life. You pay your own bill at the table.
An Alam Sutera table usually lands at Flavor Bliss, around Living World, or in a ruko cafe off Jalur Sutera. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
ALAM SUTERA QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
I am at Binus Alam Sutera. Will I just be seated with classmates?
Not necessarily. You are matched on your declared vibe, interests and the night you can keep, not on your campus. Some tables will be mostly students, others a mix of workers and cluster residents; that mix is usually the point.
More in the full FAQ, Greater Jakarta, or the Jakarta guide.
ALAM SUTERA
The chair is out in Alam Sutera.
Sign up with Alam Sutera as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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