Editorial from the city itself

The Bekasi Journal

Issue N° 24 · June 2026

A slower way of reading the city.

Long-form journalism from BekasiGo—on the neighborhoods, kitchens, rituals, and people that make Kota Bekasi worth writing about.

The columnsHeritage2 Voices2 Places2 People1 The Kitchen1

Cover story

This week’s read.

14 May 2026

HeritageCover story

Cover · Issue N° 24

The return of the Kranggan ritual.

How a Sundanese-Betawi village at the city’s edge is quietly re-teaching Bekasi its own rhythms.

This week

Filed under the city.

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The Kitchen

The city that eats standing up.

A morning tour of Bekasi’s warung ecosystem—where economies, families, and neighborhoods run on soto, kopi, and small plates before 9AM.

By Salma Prawira 6 min read27 Apr 2026

Places

A skyline in motion.

Bekasi’s built environment is changing faster than any city its size in Indonesia. What are we becoming—and who is deciding?

By Rizki Andiansyah 10 min read8 Apr 2026

People

Ibu Yanti and her forty years of soto.

A profile of the woman who has quietly fed three generations of one Bekasi neighborhood.

By Salma Prawira 5 min read2 Apr 2026

Places

The LRT changes everything.

Eighteen minutes to Central Jakarta. Two years in, we look at what the LRT Jabodebek has done to how Bekasi lives, works, and eats.

By Rizki Andiansyah 7 min read18 Mar 2026

Voices

Voices from the market.

Four small business owners at Pasar Baru Bekasi on what has changed — and what stubbornly hasn’t.

By Aris Prasetyo 6 min read4 Mar 2026

Heritage

A modern wayang, staged for a modern city.

Behind the scenes of an experiment: putting shadow puppetry, live electronic music, and a full LED wall on the same stage.

By Aris Prasetyo 4 min read18 Feb 2026

Column · Heritage

Living memory of the city.

2 stories

Heritage

The return of the Kranggan ritual.

How a Sundanese-Betawi village at the city’s edge is quietly re-teaching Bekasi its own rhythms.

By Aris Prasetyo 8 min read

18 Feb 2026·4 min read

A modern wayang, staged for a modern city.

By Aris Prasetyo

Column · Voices

People telling their own story.

2 stories

Voices

Voices from the market.

Four small business owners at Pasar Baru Bekasi on what has changed — and what stubbornly hasn’t.

By Aris Prasetyo 6 min read

5 Feb 2026·9 min read

Growing up Summarecon.

By Rizki Andiansyah

Column · Places

A closer look at where we live.

2 stories

Places

A skyline in motion.

Bekasi’s built environment is changing faster than any city its size in Indonesia. What are we becoming—and who is deciding?

By Rizki Andiansyah 10 min read

18 Mar 2026·7 min read

The LRT changes everything.

By Rizki Andiansyah

Column · People

The makers and keepers.

1 story

People

Ibu Yanti and her forty years of soto.

A profile of the woman who has quietly fed three generations of one Bekasi neighborhood.

By Salma Prawira 5 min read

Bekasi through its meals.

1 story

The Kitchen

The city that eats standing up.

A morning tour of Bekasi’s warung ecosystem—where economies, families, and neighborhoods run on soto, kopi, and small plates before 9AM.

By Salma Prawira 6 min read

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