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SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Panglima Polim is where half of Jaksel already nongkrongs on a Friday; the trick is having people to nongkrong with on a Tuesday too. A standing weekly table turns the strip you already love into a place where five people know your order.
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 Panglima Polim table.
The strip runs straight south from Blok M with the MRT rattling overhead, and M Bloc Space holds the top end in the old Peruri printing complex. Coffee bars, Japanese counters and late-night eateries fill Jl. Panglima Polim Raya and its numbered side streets, and Taman Ayodya's little lake sits one block over on Barito.
It is one of the easiest pockets in Jaksel to keep a weekly promise in: two MRT stations, one straight road, and enough food to give five people something to argue about.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Panglima Polim, specifically.
- First-jobbers who decompress around Blok M after the macet
- People new to a Kebayoran Baru kos or apartment
- Anyone who already nongkrongs on Polim, just usually alone
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- The MRT runs right above the strip: Blok M BCA at the north end, Blok A at the south, with the Blok M TransJakarta terminal one stop away.
- 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 Panglima Polim table tends to land on the main strip or one of its numbered side streets: a coffee bar with a long table, a Japanese counter, somewhere near M Bloc. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
PANGLIMA POLIM QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
Is a Panglima Polim table the same as a Blok M table?
Same pocket, walkable ends of it. You are seated with people near you, so the table lands where all five can actually reach on a weeknight, and it opens the moment enough people nearby sign up on a shared night.
More in the full FAQ, South Jakarta & SCBD, or the Jakarta guide.
PANGLIMA POLIM
The chair is out in Panglima Polim.
Sign up with Panglima Polim as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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