Coffee's Up, Down Under!

Inspired by the thriving cafe culture in Australia and New Zealand, the co-owners of Antipodean café have gone to great lengths to bring the taste of quality coffee and Kiwi/Aussie cafe fusion food to Jakarta.

New Zealander Alun Evans and Indonesian Arlini Syan opened Antipodean in 2009 as an arm of Merdeka Coffee, a wholesale coffee business and brand that sources beans directly from farmer groups throughout Indonesia.


“We opened Antipodean because at the time Jakarta was a place that lacked a contemporary cafe culture. Coffee was enjoyed as kopi tubruk by many but cafes, as I know them, were few and far between,” Evans said. “The cafe scene in Australia and New Zealand is one of the best in the world and I wanted to bring a piece of that to Jakarta.”