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Make friends inKebayoran Lama.
SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Kebayoran Lama is where Jakarta actually lives: the market before sunrise, the KRL over it, the mall down the road. It is dense with people and short on ways to meet them on purpose. That is a table's job.
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 Kebayoran Lama table.
Pasar Kebayoran Lama is the anchor, a proper market that spills along the rail line from before dawn, with Kebayoran station and the elevated TransJakarta line crossing right above it. Down Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda, Gandaria City does the air-conditioned version, and the Permata Hijau towers fill the blocks between.
It is a commuter's neighbourhood, which is exactly why a standing table works: the night lands where you already get off.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Kebayoran Lama, specifically.
- KRL commuters who change at Kebayoran and go straight home
- Apartment and kost dwellers around Gandaria and Permata Hijau
- First-jobbers priced out of Senopati but not out of a social life
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- Kebayoran station on the KRL Rangkasbitung line meets the elevated TransJakarta corridor 13 here, and Gandaria City sits on Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda.
- 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 Kebayoran Lama table usually lands around Gandaria City or the kedai rows off Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda: somewhere with a long sit that five schedules can reach. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
KEBAYORAN LAMA QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
I commute through Kebayoran Lama but sleep in Bintaro. Which area do I pick?
Pick where your evening actually ends. If you can keep a weeknight near Kebayoran station or Gandaria before the last leg home, choose Kebayoran Lama; if your nights only work near home, choose Bintaro. A table opens wherever enough people can keep the same night.
More in the full FAQ, South Jakarta & SCBD, or the Jakarta guide.
KEBAYORAN LAMA
The chair is out in Kebayoran Lama.
Sign up with Kebayoran Lama as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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