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GREATER JAKARTA · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Gading Serpong may have more good ruko restaurants per square kilometre than anywhere in Jabodetabek, and most of them are full of groups that formed years ago. Getting a seat is easy. Getting a standing seat with people who expect you is the product.
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 Gading Serpong table.
The boulevard runs from Summarecon Mal Serpong through block after block of ruko kuliner, and UMN keeps a steady stream of students cycling through the kost clusters around it. Almost nobody's family has been here for generations; nearly everyone arrived in the last decade or two.
A town where everyone arrived recently is the best possible place for a standing table: nobody's circle is finished yet.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Gading Serpong, specifically.
- UMN students who want friends beyond their own angkatan
- First-jobbers in a kost near the ruko rows with nobody to eat with
- Couples and families new to the clusters who want local friends, not commute friends
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- Most of Gading Serpong moves by car or ride-hail: the Jakarta-Merak toll is close on the Karawaci side, and the Serpong-line KRL stations are a short drive south.
- 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 Gading Serpong table almost picks itself: one of the ruko kuliner rows off the boulevard, or Summarecon Mal Serpong when the group wants easy. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
GADING SERPONG QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
Are Gading Serpong tables separate from BSD?
Yes. You pick the area you can actually reach on a weeknight and we seat within it, so a Gading Serpong table stays a Gading Serpong table. Each area opens as enough people nearby sign up.
More in the full FAQ, Greater Jakarta, or the Jakarta guide.
GADING SERPONG
The chair is out in Gading Serpong.
Sign up with Gading Serpong as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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