An Indonesian woman in a burnt-orange jacket speaks to a seated audience in a teal-lit hall.

One-day conference, Central Jakarta

FieldnotesJakarta

A field guide to making digital work that holds up in the real world.

Date: Saturday 24 July 2027
Time: 09:30–16:15 WIB (UTC+7)
Venue: Cikini Design Hall, Central Jakarta

Free entry. No payment required.

Design and engineering. Two tracks, one shared conversation.

One day.
Two tracks.
One shared room.

Fieldnotes Jakarta is a one-day gathering for people who design and build digital products in Indonesia. The talks are practical, the rooms are small, and the questions are welcome.

Design and engineering rarely share a timetable. For one day, they do. Compare notes on multilingual interfaces, low-bandwidth journeys, resilient publishing, and the compromises that actually ship.

1 day: 09:30–16:15 WIB (UTC+7)
2 tracks: Design and Engineering
1 shared panel: All rooms, one conversation

Free to attend. Registration is required.

Program

All times WIB (UTC+7). Sessions at 11:00 and 14:15 run in parallel.

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Fieldnotes Jakarta program, Saturday 24 July 2027, all times WIB (UTC+7)
Time	Session	Track	Room
09:00–09:30	Doors and check-in	All	Lobby
09:30–10:15	Keynote: Designing for the city we actually live in Aruna Pratama What Jakarta's everyday interfaces teach us about constraint, negotiation, and care.	All	Main Hall
10:15–11:00	Coffee break	All	Courtyard
11:00–11:45Parallel	Forms that speak more than one language Maya Kusuma Labels, validation, error states, and the order of questions: how to design forms that hold two languages without losing clarity.	Design	Studio A
11:00–11:45Parallel	Resilient publishing when the network isn't Dewi Larasati How editorial teams ship and recover content when connections drop, devices age, and queues back up.	Engineering	Studio B
11:45–13:15	Lunch	All	Courtyard
13:15–14:15	Open tables: portfolio and code reviews Bring work in progress. Small tables, no slides, thirty minutes each.	All	Main Hall
14:15–15:00Parallel	Journeys for low-bandwidth days Rizky Hidayat Mapping the moments where a slow connection turns a simple task into a dead end, and designing the alternatives.	Design	Studio A
14:15–15:00Parallel	Building for unstable networks Bagas Nugroho Offline-first patterns, retries, idempotency, and honest failure states for products that cannot assume a stable network.	Engineering	Studio B
15:00–15:15	Room change	All	Main Hall
15:15–16:15	Panel: What survives contact with reality? Aruna Pratama, Maya Kusuma, Bagas Nugroho. Moderated by Sinta Maharani Designers and engineers compare notes on handoff, constraints, and the compromises that actually ship.	All	Main Hall
16:15	Close	All	Main Hall

09:00–09:30
- Doors and check-in
  All / Lobby
09:30–10:15
- Keynote: Designing for the city we actually live in
  Aruna Pratama
  All / Main Hall
10:15–11:00
- Coffee break
  All / Courtyard
11:00–11:45
Two sessions at the same time. Choose one.
- Forms that speak more than one language
  Maya Kusuma
  Design / Studio A
- Resilient publishing when the network isn't
  Dewi Larasati
  Engineering / Studio B
11:45–13:15
- Lunch
  All / Courtyard
13:15–14:15
- Open tables: portfolio and code reviews
  All / Main Hall
14:15–15:00
Two sessions at the same time. Choose one.
- Journeys for low-bandwidth days
  Rizky Hidayat
  Design / Studio A
- Building for unstable networks
  Bagas Nugroho
  Engineering / Studio B
15:00–15:15
- Room change
  All / Main Hall
15:15–16:15
- Panel: What survives contact with reality?
  Aruna Pratama, Maya Kusuma, Bagas Nugroho. Moderated by Sinta Maharani
  All / Main Hall
16:15
- Close
  All / Main Hall

Speakers

Five practitioners, one shared question: what actually ships?

Speakers and roles are fictional, written for this event template.

Aruna Pratama
Product designer and researcher working on public-service interfaces in Jakarta.
Keynote: Designing for the city we actually live in
All / 09:30 WIB
Maya Kusuma
Content designer focused on multilingual services and plain language.
Forms that speak more than one language
Design / 11:00 WIB
Dewi Larasati
Publishing engineer working on editorial platforms for low-connectivity regions.
Resilient publishing when the network isn't
Engineering / 11:00 WIB
Rizky Hidayat
Service designer working on transport and delivery journeys.
Journeys for low-bandwidth days
Design / 14:15 WIB
Bagas Nugroho
Infrastructure engineer building offline-first tools.
Building for unstable networks
Engineering / 14:15 WIB
Sinta Maharani
Design editor and moderator.
Panel: What survives contact with reality?
All / 15:15 WIB

Venue

Cikini Design Hall

Jalan Cikini Raya, Central Jakarta

Saturday 24 July 2027. Doors 09:00. Program 09:30–16:15 WIB (UTC+7).

Cikini Design Hall is a fictional venue for this template, so no map pin or coordinates are shown.

Commuter rail: Take the Cikini line to Cikini station. The hall is a 7-minute walk from the station.
Taxi or ride-hailing: Ask for Jalan Cikini Raya. Drop-off is at the curb; the entrance is set back from the road.
Parking: There is no on-site parking.

Register free

Three fields. No payment. Your details are stored privately for this event.

Saturday 24 July 2027, 09:30–16:15 WIB (UTC+7) at Cikini Design Hall, Central Jakarta.