¶ FIELD NOTES · LEBAK BULUS · SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD
Make friends inLebak Bulus.
SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Lebak Bulus is where the MRT begins, which quietly made it one of the best-connected corners of Jakarta. Plenty of people moved here for exactly that reason and now know the platform better than the neighbourhood. Fixable.
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 Lebak Bulus table.
The MRT's southern terminus (Lebak Bulus Grab) and its depot stand where the old stadium used to be, with the intercity bus terminal close by and Poins Square for the everyday errands. Add the TB Simatupang office corridor next door and you get a neighbourhood full of people who arrived for logistics: the line, the toll, the job.
A neighbourhood chosen for logistics deserves a social life that uses them: the table sits at the end of the line, so getting home is never the problem.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Lebak Bulus, specifically.
- Commuters who ride the MRT end to end and come home to nobody
- TB Simatupang office workers who live near the terminus
- New arrivals from greater Jakarta using Lebak Bulus as the front door
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- Lebak Bulus Grab is the MRT's southern terminus, the intercity bus terminal is close by, and the JORR toll at TB Simatupang links the rest of the city.
- 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 Lebak Bulus table usually lands within a short walk of the station: a coffee shop, a long-table eatery, somewhere around Poins Square. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
LEBAK BULUS QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
I only commute through Lebak Bulus, does that count?
If the neighbourhood is where your evening starts or ends, yes. Pick Lebak Bulus as your area and you are seated with people who can reach the same table on the same night; it opens as enough of you sign up.
More in the full FAQ, South Jakarta & SCBD, or the Jakarta guide.
LEBAK BULUS
The chair is out in Lebak Bulus.
Sign up with Lebak Bulus as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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