Table Setting

Senopati's newest wagyu spot has a 48-year-old story behind it

Sheena Suparman

Ushino Kura brings 48 years of Kagoshima craftsmanship to Senopati, and only 4 percent of cattle ever make the cut.

Table Setting

An elevated warteg, a table of strangers and a reason to love this country again

Adelia Anjani Putri

Somewhere between Senopati and Madura, I found myself lost among strangers and a table of unfamiliar dishes, before finding my way back to a complicated love for home.

Little Big Things

The art of war and peace, at home

Pallavi Aiyar

After more than two decades of marriage and countless arguments, an unconventional lesson on how to disagree deeply, fight with passion, and still choose one another.

Table Setting

What does an Italian summer taste like?

Aqraa Sagir, and Kiran Louis

At AWkitchen Pasta House, Chef Toru Yomoda’s seasonal lineup is built almost entirely around beef, handled the way classic Italian kitchens always have.

Warm Takes

Gang’s all here

Sheena Suparman

Eleven years after college, six friends reunite for a wedding in Greece. Amid the dancing and laughter, one woman confronts the invisible grief, and unexpected gifts, of being chronically single.

Little Big Things

You can't argue a child into loving books

Pallavi Aiyar

Instead of fighting screens, a mother learned to wrap books in rituals her son would come to love and anticipate with joy.

Little Big Things

Non-transactional kindness: What schools should teach in the age of AI

Pallavi Aiyar

If AI can increasingly handle memory (delete recall) and even analysis, schools must ask a deeper question: what remains uniquely human?

Little Big Things

Make way for the Al-Raj

Pallavi Aiyar

Corrupt, self-serving and increasingly despised — what if politicians were simply replaced by AI?

Warm Takes

Why we run

Jet Damazo

From bucket list goals to Sunday morning long runs, a runner unpacks the strange appeal of voluntarily doing something so difficult again and again … and again.

Little Big Things

The need for generosity of listening

Pallavi Aiyar

We spend a lot of time learning how not to offend. A cross-cultural communication expert argues we should spend more time learning how not to be offended.

Little Big Things

Your national dish is lying to you

Pallavi Aiyar

From the croissant to ketchup, a tour of the surprising, border-crossing origin stories behind the dishes nations love to call their own — including one that traces back to Sumatra.

Little Big Things

Boredom is the new luxury

Pallavi Aiyar

As the distraction economy steals our ability to think and focus, the most radical thing we can do could be nothing at all.

Warm Takes

The way we live

Maggie Tiojakin

A personal reflection on Jakarta’s contradictions and unfinished ambitions — and why, despite all its failings, the city continues to ground us.

Little Big Things

Hindu epics in a Muslim majority nation

Pallavi Aiyar

Nothing captures Indonesia's pluralism better than wayang kulit. This essay explains how the Ramayana and Mahabharata continue to shape the country’s society, politics, and everyday life.

Warm Takes

Jakarta: A city of stations, a city of selves

Lutfiya Tussifah

Jakarta's train stations don't just take you places, they make you someone different at each stop.