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Make friends inBintaro.
GREATER JAKARTA · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Bintaro is what happens when a suburb quietly grows its own cafe scene: you no longer need the city for a good evening, just people to spend it with. The sektors are full of them; they have simply never been put at one table.
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 Bintaro table.
Life here is organised by sektor: Bintaro Jaya Xchange for the mall runs, cafe and eatery rows spread through the sektors, and PKN STAN in Jurangmangu keeping one corner permanently student-aged. Three KRL stations (Pondok Ranji, Jurangmangu, Sudimara) stitch it to the city.
Plenty of Bintaro commutes into the city all week. A local standing table means at least one evening does not have to survive the trip back first.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Bintaro, specifically.
- Commuters on the Rangkasbitung line who want one evening that starts at home
- PKN STAN students and fresh graduates settling into the sektors
- People who moved for the house and want friends inside the toll gate, not beyond it
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- The Pondok Ranji, Jurangmangu and Sudimara KRL stations serve the sektors, and the Jakarta-Serpong toll runs along the edge.
- 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.
A Bintaro table usually lands at a cafe in the sektors or around Bintaro Jaya Xchange: somewhere with parking and no closing rush. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
BINTARO QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
Which sektor will my Bintaro table be in?
Wherever suits the five of you: we suggest a spot central to the group via Google Maps and you confirm it together. Bintaro is spread out, so tables form around the people who sign up, and yours opens once enough compatible neighbours are in.
More in the full FAQ, Greater Jakarta, or the Jakarta guide.
BINTARO
The chair is out in Bintaro.
Sign up with Bintaro as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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