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Art & Design
Trends shift faster than ever. Yet some places continue finding their way into the routines, memories, and conversations of the people who visit them. Their significance rarely comes from a single exhibition or programme, but from something more enduring: the ability to bring people together.
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Culinary
Before the sky darkens over Glodok, the queue has already begun to form. A family recipe from 1948, a plate of juhi, jellyfish, pickled vegetables, and sweet-savoury sauce that many Jakarta residents have known for decades.
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Profile
Across changing eras, evolving technologies, and generations of readers, Kurnia Effendi has continued exploring the experiences that connect people: love, loss, curiosity, hope, and everything in between.
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Story of the month
In the middle of demanding routines and increasingly performative social spaces, Mutual Friends reflects a quieter longing many people share today: finding comfort, sincerity, and connection in the company of strangers.
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Art & Design
Not perfection, but personality. Not restraint, but atmosphere. In the middle of Jakarta’s constant movement, Sonar Paraiso builds a stay where colour, texture, lighting, and surreal details work together to create something immersive and emotionally alive.
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Profile
Life rarely moves in straight lines after everything changes. For Jessy, the journey with Multiple Sclerosis became less about returning to who she once was, and more about learning how to meet herself again with understanding and honesty.
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Lifestyle
Some objects are designed for function. Others quietly shape experience. Inspired by the contrast between urban movement and the stillness of nature, Gahalu creates footwear that carries both worlds at once.
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Lifestyle
Between imagination and reality, there is always a moment where things could go either way, left as a passing idea, or brought into something real shares how sketches become objects, colours take shape, and details are carefully realised into pieces that feel expressive, personal, and alive.
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Culinary
Dreams are often recognised in hindsight. At the moment, they look more like routine and held onto without certainty. At Kemenkan Bakes that process remains central. What has grown over time is built on what continues each day, shaped through care and consistency.
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Travel
In Sangiang, travel becomes less about navigating and more about experiencing, allowing space to feel at ease without needing to ask for it.
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Lifestyle
Think Hale, moved through gentle formulations and thoughtful intention, allowing skincare to support rather than complicate everyday life. Not a solution to seek, but a practice to keep
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Profile
In the cockpit, Regita Savira moves with clarity and composure. She carries something equally steady: a perspective shaped by who she is, and the confidence to remain exactly that.
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Culinary
Between movement, shifting energy, and the pace of everyday routines, healthy drinks begin to take on a different role: something that supports, rather than complicates. Especially for women, where balance is needed.
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Art & Design
At Gelap Ruang Jiwa, design begins through exploration, raw forms shaped by instinct before being translated into metal through careful development.
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Profile
In Indonesia, batik has long carried the rhythm of tradition. Through colours, patterns, and people, it preserves fragments of memory from one generation to the next.
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Travel
Towering thatched houses line a stone courtyard alongside ancestral graves, Prai Ijing reflecting a worldview rooted in lineage and balance.
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Lifestyle
Through its work with local artisans, Lamerenan shows how tradition can remain present within contemporary life.
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Culinary
Acaraki Jamu offering a way to encounter jamu again through forms that meet the present without leaving the past behind.
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Story of the month
Karatungga’s founder, Puteri Widia shares why Batik Peranakan is far more than a motifs.
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Profile
For Yori Atira, scale has never been the only measure of success.
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Profile
Richie Pratadaja offers chocolate as an experience that is far more than just a dessert.
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Art & Design
At Nirmana Kinetic Space, calm is an active artistic element, one that invites people to experience and stay.
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Culinary
Crafted through continuous research and refinement, Messy Artisan explores texture, restraint, and quiet complexity.
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Lifestyle
More than a fashion label, Abhati stands as a natural dye studio where batik meets conscious creation.
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