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Make friends inMampang.
SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Mampang is the corridor half of young Jakarta lives in and nobody claims: kost above a laundry, office up in Kuningan, weekends spent anywhere else. Claiming it starts with five people and one kept night.
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 Mampang table.
Jl. Mampang Prapatan Raya is the spine, running from the Kuningan towers down towards Ragunan with the TransJakarta corridor 6 lane in the middle and warung tenda lighting the kerbs at night. Kemang's cafes and bars start one turn off Jl. Kapten Tendean, close enough to walk on a good evening.
It is kost country: thousands of people at the same life stage, stacked along one road, mostly strangers. That is not a social problem, it is a seating problem.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Mampang, specifically.
- First-jobbers in the Mampang kost belt who work up in Kuningan
- People who can see Kemang from their street but always go alone
- Anyone whose weeknights end at the warung downstairs, solo
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- TransJakarta corridor 6 (Ragunan to Dukuh Atas) runs straight down Jl. Mampang Prapatan Raya, with Kuningan at the top of the road and Kemang one turn off Jl. Kapten Tendean.
- 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 Mampang table lands on the strip itself or one turn into Kemang: a nasi goreng tent with a long bench, a cafe off Jl. Kemang Raya, somewhere five kost schedules can all reach. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
MAMPANG QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
Should I pick Mampang or Kemang as my area?
Pick where you sleep, not where you play. If your kost is on the Mampang side, pick Mampang: the table lands within your actual radius, and Kemang is still one turn away when the five of you want it. Each area opens as enough people nearby sign up.
More in the full FAQ, South Jakarta & SCBD, or the Jakarta guide.
MAMPANG
The chair is out in Mampang.
Sign up with Mampang as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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