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Purpose Driven Entrepreneur. Promoter in revival of Forgotten Biodiversity & Food Culture. Founder of @javaraindonesia @senimanpangan @taluntemurun

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SAGO & SPICE

Reclaiming Indonesia’s Food Identity

What if we rediscovered Indonesia through the ingredients, spices, and food traditions that shaped our culinary identity?

As part of Wonderful Indonesia Gastronomy (WIG), JAVARA brings together TAMU, Chef Bara Pattiradjawane, Kagounga, Seniman Pangan, and PASTI Collective for a celebration of two remarkable elements of Nusantara’s culinary heritage: Sago & Spice.

Through this two-day gastro-cultural experience, we revisit native ingredients, rediscover forgotten food traditions, and explore how Indonesia’s rich culinary heritage can inspire the future of gastronomy.

we present a Two-Day Gastro-Cultural Experience celebrating Nusantara gastronomy, cultural heritage, and food biodiversity.

✨ DISCOVER THE EXPERIENCES

🍽️ Exclusive Dining Experiences
16 October — Dinner
17 October — Lunch & Dinner

🌶️ Flavor Masterclass
Unlocking Indonesia’s Spice & Herbs to Create Signature Flavors
With Chef Bara Pattiradjawane & Helianti Hilman.

👨‍🍳 Cooking Demonstration
A culinary collaboration with Kagounga × Seniman Pangan, celebrating traditional knowledge and the creative possibilities of Nusantara ingredients.

🪷 Living Food Rituals
Experience a traditional food ritual presented by Kagounga, inspired by the cultural heritage of Ternate, before the dining experience.

🧺 Pasar Rakyat: Sago, Spice & Beyond
Curated with PASTI Collective — Cooperative of Indonesian Food Artisans — discover distinctive ingredients, artisanal foods, and the people keeping Indonesia’s food traditions alive.

📅 16–17 October 2026
📍 TAMU, Jakarta Selatan

Taste the forgotten. Meet the makers. Rediscover Nusantara.

🎟️ Limited seats available!

📲 Dining Reservations: +62 813-3097-9998
📲 Flavor Masterclass Reservations: +62 812-1065-922 (Ibu Jo)

We look forward to welcoming you to a celebration of Indonesia’s extraordinary ingredients, flavours, and culinary identity. by @heliantihilman

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Flavor is more than a recipe. It’s a language.

Join Chef @barasupercook & @heliantihilman for Flavor Masterclass, an immersive exploration of Indonesian herbs, spices, and the flavor pillars that make our cuisine so distinctive.

Learn how to:
• Discover how Indonesian herbs & spices build depth, balance, and character.
• Layer flavor with intention, beyond simply following recipes.
• Work with aroma, heat, acidity, sweetness, bitterness, umami, and texture.
• Explore techniques to extract, intensify, preserve, and combine natural flavors.
• Create your own signature flavor, distinctive, memorable, and uniquely yours.

Saturday, 17 October 2026
9 AM – 12 PM
IDR 990K nett / pax
Limited seating available

For culinary professionals & food enthusiasts.
RSVP: +62 812-1065-922 by @heliantihilman

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Restoring Indonesia’s biodiversity & food culture with @heliantihilman at Habibie Factor Festival 2026.

Helianti HIlman merupakan pengusaha biodiversitas pangan dan promotor gastronomi budaya yang berfokus menghidupkan kembali warisan pangan lokal serta membuka peluang ekonomi berkelanjutan bagi masyarakat daerah. Pada 2008, ia mendirikan JAVARA untuk menghubungkan ribuan petani kecil dan pengrajin pangan ke pasar nasional hingga global. Ia juga mendirikan Sekolah Seniman Pangan, memprakarsai Pasti Collective, dan mengembangkan Bioculture Gastronomy berbasis komunitas guna menonjolkan kekayaan alam, musim, serta budaya lokal.

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Habibie Factor Festival 2026 adalah sebuah acara yang membuka ruang diskusi bagi young builders, penggerak komunitas, dan inisiator gerakan.

Bersama, kita mengaktifkan kembali cara berpikir B.J. Habibie untuk diaplikasikan di berbagai sektor demi membangun masa depan Indonesia yang berkelanjutan.

Catat detail Habibie Factor Festival 2026:
📍 Nirmana Falatehan, Blok M
📅 21 November 2026
🎟️ habibiefactor.id
Atau beli tiket dengan klik link di bio

#HabibieFactorFestival #HBBF2026 #ThoughtLeader
#PublicClass #BudayaDanPanganLokal by @heliantihilman

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Long before modern diet staples filled our tables, Indonesia’s ancient foodscapes flourished with diverse, nutrient-rich ingredients like sago and many native heritage spices. On October 16 & 17, we are bringing those distant flavors back into the light.

Join us for an exclusive collaborative dinner hosted by TAMU @tamu.jkrt, featuring biodiversity pioneer Helianti Hilman @heliantihilman of Javara, and renowned culinary expert Chef Bara Pattiradjawane @barasupercook. Together, they have curated a multi-course menu that honors indigenous ingredients through a contemporary lens.

WIG Chef Collaborations podcast team
Executive Producer: @bellamrtha
Outreach Coordinator: @pynd
Director of Photography: @Yuliustri
Cinematographer & Audio Engineer: @dismas_dis
Editor: @superfighterfx
Production Assistant: @shyallans @nadinetiar
Content Researcher & Writer: @pynd @bellamrthaa

#WIG2026withPriceless #WIG2026 #WonderfulIndonesia #gastronomy #sago by @heliantihilman

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Above the jungle, overlooking rice fields, gather for a three-course feast celebrating Indonesia’s heirloom ingredients. Between courses, writers, a Balinese cook and a poet explore food as inheritance, memory and belonging, and how recipes carry home through generations.

Not a panel: a conversation with dirt still on its hands. Limited seats.

📍 Plataran Ubud
🗓️ Thursday, 22 October
⏰ 12 PM
🎟️ Register via tinyurl.com/UWRF26BookLaunchRegist
➡️ Learn more tinyurl.com/UWRF26BookLaunches

Bertengger di atas hutan, dengan pemandangan hamparan sawah, mari berkumpul untuk menikmati jamuan tiga hidangan yang merayakan bahan-bahan pusaka Indonesia. Di sela-sela hidangan, para penulis, juru masak Bali dan pujangga mengeksplorasi makanan sebagai warisan, kenangan, dan rasa memiliki, serta bagaimana resep mampu menghidupkan rumah, dari generasi ke generasi.

Bukan sebuah panel: namun percakapan dengan tanah air yang masih melekat di tangan. Tempat duduk terbatas. taken in Ubud Writers & Readers Festival by @heliantihilman

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A journey through Indonesia, one ingredient at a time.

From the bold, aromatic character of Kepiting Santan Asam Pedas to the delicate sweetness of Sago Subut, Sago & Spice brings together forgotten ingredients, regional traditions, and contemporary culinary expression.

Join us for an exclusive lunch & dinner experience by Chef @andnic90 and Chef @dru.karmajana, hosted and narrated by @heliantihilman of @javaraindonesia.

A menu rooted in Indonesia’s diverse food culture from Tumis Mandai, Bubur Sumsum and more.

16 & 17 October 2026
RSVP: +62 813-3097-9998 by @heliantihilman

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What Was Already Here? Rediscovering Our Food Biodiversity

Crosscurrents have shaped the food cultures of the Nusantara for centuries. But what did we eat before ingredients from distant lands arrived?

Long before the arrival of Indian, Chinese and Arab traders, and centuries before the Columbian Exchange, our lands and waters were already rich in edible biodiversity. What did our ancestors gather, cultivate, cook and eat? How much of that knowledge survives today?

This panel turns our attention to the extraordinary food biodiversity that was already here, much of it overlooked, forgotten or waiting to be rediscovered.

Moderator: @maxveenhuyzen
Panellists: @kikitube @heliantihilman @abiramidurai

25 October 2026
Asian Civilisations Museum

#dialoguesbykhir #serumpun by @heliantihilman

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WHEN SPICES BECOME SILATURAHMI

Cloves, nutmeg and pepper once crossed seas as some of the world’s most prized commodities. But their journeys did not end at the port or in the marketplace.

They entered homes and kitchens. Merchants settled. People married. Recipes travelled and changed. New tastes emerged. What began as trade became something far more intimate: Relationships.

For Helianti Hilman @heliantihilman, this is the story of spices that interests her most.

Her own journey has taken an unexpected path. Trained in law and intellectual property, with an LLM from King’s College London, Helianthi went on to found JAVARA. For nearly two decades, she has worked with farmers, food producers and communities across the Indonesian archipelago, championing its food biodiversity and helping indigenous ingredients and heritage foods reach people well beyond the communities that produce them.

But Helianti also thinks about spices on a more personal scale. An aroma can take us home, recall childhood, bring a family together around the table. In her words, food becomes a language of silaturahmi.

That idea lies at the heart of her SERUMPUN talk, “When Spices Became Silaturahmi Beyond the Spice Route: How Spices Created Connections, Communities and New Tastes.”

Silaturahmi is about tending human bonds, about not allowing the connections between people to quietly disappear. Helianthi invites us to look beyond the familiar story of the Spice Route as commerce, towards the relationships that grew around it.

For this year’s Crosscurrents, it feels especially fitting.

Perhaps this is where serumpun and silaturahmi meet: to be serumpun is to recognise that we are connected. Silaturahmi is how we keep those connections alive.

25 October 2026
Asian Civilisations Museum

#dialoguesbykhir #serumpun by @heliantihilman

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As part of Bangkok Climate Action Week, @theasiafoundation brought Indonesia’s Women Forest Defenders to Bangkok.
While coming from different islands in Indonesia, these particular women come from Sumatra, Lombok and Kalimantan. They are a band of forest defenders, organised and led by women, demonstrating that social forestry can stop the destructive exploitation of forests by engaging communities whose lives are entwined with the health of the forest.
Beginning with a handful of women in the Aceh village of Damaran Baru, 1,000 forest defenders in 15 villages now patrol the forests all over Indonesia.
In collaboration with @heliantihilman and @javaraindonesia, tonight’s dinner was held at @bo.lan_essentially_thai, a restaurant where chefs @chef_bosongvisava and @bolanbangkok know how to interprete such produce into lip-smacking dishes.
The “Forest-To-Table” dinner highlighted Indonesian indigenous food traditions, along with indigenous food knowledge through the lens of Thai cuisine, with the #WomenForestDefenders bringing their knowledge, traditions and stories to the table.
The highlight was the sambal station, offering an opportunity to taste these preparations while hearing directly from the women whose knowledge and traditions form them.
The result was not simply a meal inspired by the forest, but a meeting of knowledge and interpretation — between the women, who carry generations of forest food knowledge, and a kitchen dedicated to exploring Thailand’s culinary traditions in a thoughtful and sustainable way. taken in Bo.lan by @heliantihilman

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Indonesia’s rich biodiversity takes centre stage in Bangkok for a groundbreaking culinary and climate dialogue. On October 3 and 4, meet seven inspiring female forest guardians: Noviana Liling, Raberti, Tessa Pranisti, Ani Tasriah, Fitri, Lilik Ernawati, and Marwita.

Part of Bangkok Climate Action Week, this powerful collaboration between @theasiafoundation, @javaraindonesia, and @senimanpangan bridges indigenous guardianship with sustainable gastronomy.

Hosted at @bo.lan_essentially_thai, @chef_bosongvisava will marry wild-foraged Indonesian forest ingredients with vibrant Thai culinary techniques across limited lunch and dinner seatings.

#TatlerDiningID #TatlerDiningNews taken in Bangkok by @heliantihilman

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$Solve the cracks before they fracture. Be a part of Habibie Factor 2026: a shared space for the public, initiatives, and Thought Leaders to map real-world problems in fishbowl sessions and connect with communities driving systemic impact. Nirmana Falatehan 21.11.2026 Early bird tickets available now on @goersapp by @heliantihilman$

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🌿𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

𝗝𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮 invites us to discover the biodiversity of Southeast Asia through flavours and aromas from North Kalimantan and South Sumatra that we may never have encountered before. This meal brings together more than nine rare ingredients from the forest.

Throughout the meal, stories will reveal the connections between food, community knowledge and the role of women in caring for the forest. As climate change affects both nature and ways of life, gathering at this table invites us to value the people who care for the forest—and to consider how what we choose to eat connects to its future. 🌿

📢𝗟𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝟭𝟬% 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼.𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺

Reservations are required.

📅Sunday, 4 October 2026 | 12:00–14:30
🎫 THB 3,800++ per person
🍴 https://bit.ly/4pnjLS0
📞 Call us at 02 260 2962
💬 LINE ID: @ bolan

#WomenForestDefenders #BoLan #TheAsiaFoundation #Javara #SenimanPangan #FoodAndCulture #IndigenousKnowledge #Biodiversity by @heliantihilman

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