2026-07 - Jakarta, Indonesia
Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place, Jakarta
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Irfan Kurnia
Betawi people, given names, Green Day, Lefawigi, UI design
Swamitra Dermawan
Music business, Slank, LA vs Jakarta culture shock, branding door hardware
Arvid Yap
Dutch citizen who worked hard to move back here, chocolate spotlight, QRIS
Yusuf Gandhi Putra
Last-minute Gandhi, telco infrastructure, folding keyboard
Arief Aziz
Nadiem Makarim, technocratic Lee Kwan Yew, Komodo
Muhammad Furqan
anthropology, Japan, Perfect Days
Magnus Ramstad Dahl
Norway → Singapore → Jakarta his favorite, gentle culture, NordCham
Darman Haslim
Shanghai, running, Wisconsin, Singapore, freelancing
Randy Chandradinata
directing feature films, heart attack, weightlifting, Suno
Julian Christian Anderson
Anderson name, Bandung, free lunch, coding with AI or not
Hugo Erawan
French, reverse racism, Japanese culture
Thomas Diong
active learning, fixing companies, reading the Bible
Veny Lai
married at 47, pet rats, sweet vanilla civet, 3 dogs, fountain
Felicia Lasmana
Bandung life, Sundanese, NGOs, Pacific Place mall