¶ FIELD NOTES · RADIO DALAM · SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD
Make friends inRadio Dalam.
SOUTH JAKARTA & SCBD · A WEEKLY TABLE OF FIVE · FRIENDSHIP-FIRST
Radio Dalam is the road everyone drives through and almost nobody stops in. A shame, because the people who live along it are exactly the ones who need a standing table: new to the kos, new to the job, home after the macet with no plans.
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 Radio Dalam table.
Jl. Radio Dalam Raya is the cut-through between Kebayoran Baru and Pondok Indah: banks, bakso joints, and a surprising density of coffee shops wedged between them, with Gandaria City anchoring the western end. It is a corridor of kos rooms and new apartments, full of people who moved in for the location and are still working on the circle.
The macet here is famous and the fix is local: a table you can walk or short-ride to means the traffic is never the excuse.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for Radio Dalam, specifically.
- First-jobbers in a Radio Dalam kos who know the strip but not the neighbours
- Remote workers doing laps of the same three coffee shops
- People who moved south for offices around Gandaria or Pondok Indah
HOW IT WORKS HERE
One match, then the same five, every week.
- Getting there
- No MRT stop of its own yet: Blok A and Haji Nawi on the north-south line are a short ride east, and Gandaria City sits at the western end.
- 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 Radio Dalam table usually lands in one of the coffee shops or eateries along the strip itself, or just over at Gandaria. We suggest the spot via Google Maps, the five of you confirm it, and we never book it or take venue money.
RADIO DALAM QUESTIONS
Before you sit down.
Do I need to cross Jakarta for a Radio Dalam table?
No, the whole point is staying local. You are seated with four people around Radio Dalam, Gandaria and the Kebayoran edge, and the table opens once enough people nearby sign up on a shared night.
More in the full FAQ, South Jakarta & SCBD, or the Jakarta guide.
RADIO DALAM
The chair is out in Radio Dalam.
Sign up with Radio Dalam as your area and you are in the first group seated when it can fill a table.
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