Anomali Coffee
Specialty coffee · Kemang
Local beans, an easy daytime room, and a low bar for a first meet in Kemang. Coffee first, no pressure to make it a whole dinner.
✶ Easy to talk, easy to fit five
Find it on Google Maps →¶ FIELD NOTES · KEMANG · SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD
Make friends inKemang.
SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Kemang is where Jakarta goes to look like it has a social life: gallery nights, cafes full of laptops, a bar strip that hums past midnight. Looking like it and having one are different things. The same five faces every week is the difference.
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 Kemang table.
Kemang runs along Jl. Kemang Raya and spills into Jl. Kemang Selatan and Jl. Bangka: art galleries next to barbershops, third-wave coffee next to warung, Lippo Mall Kemang anchoring the middle. It has been the neighbourhood of agencies, studios and creative freelancers since long before working from a cafe was a personality.
Kemang is not on a train line, and everyone treats that as part of the charm: you arrive by ride-hail, you stay a while, and the gang off the main road hide more good rooms than the strip itself. It is a neighbourhood built for lingering, which happens to be exactly what a standing table needs.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Kemang, specifically.
- Creative and agency workers who already spend their days in Kemang cafes
- Remote workers who know every laptop-friendly cafe and none of the people in them
- People back from overseas rebuilding a Jakarta circle from scratch
- New arrivals who picked Kemang for the strip and are still waiting on the circle
- Anyone tired of leaving Kemang's bars early because they came alone
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- Kemang has no station of its own: most of the neighbourhood arrives by ride-hail down Jl. Kemang Raya, or hops from the Cipete Raya and Haji Nawi MRT stations on Jl. Fatmawati nearby.
- 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 Kemang table usually lands on or just off Jl. Kemang Raya: a cafe that keeps pouring after dark, a long table down one of the gang. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
REAL PLACES TO MEET
Rooms in Kemang that work for five.
Each read one way: could five people who just met hear each other, fit around one table, and want to stay? We suggest, we never book.
Monggo Restaurant
Casual dining · Kemang
A cozy ambiance with a variety of seating options, ideal for sharing dishes and getting to know each other over a meal. Enjoy a selection of local and international dishes while the conversation flows.
✶ Worth a first table
Find it on Google Maps →KEMANG QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
When does a Kemang table start?
The moment enough compatible people in and around Kemang sign up on a shared night. Kemang is one of the first Jaksel pockets we are opening, so signing up with Kemang as your area puts you in the earliest group seated.
Do I need a car for a Kemang table?
No. Most of Kemang arrives by ride-hail anyway, and a table lands on or near Jl. Kemang Raya, so it is one short hop, not a crawl across town. Just pick the night you can genuinely keep, macet included.
More in the full FAQ, South Jakarta & SCBD, or the Jakarta guide.
KEMANG
The chair is out in Kemang.
Sign up with Kemang as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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