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  Pod. 339 Abigail Limuria TALKS ABOUT HAVING A THOUGHT FOR EVERYTHING BESIDES ALIENS 04.09.2026 58мин

  Abigail Limuria has spent years facilitating people how to think about the country. So we opened with the question nobody asks her: who is she when nobody asks her opinion?Turns out the answer is the same person, just quieter. She doesn't stop having opinions when the mic goes off and after almost a year of protests, outrage, and demands for change, the one she keeps coming back to is that we are in a crisis of competence.We sit down with Abigail Limuria to unpack the 17+8 demands and what became of them, the frustration of watching a country move without improving, and why so much happening can leave you with so little to show for it.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 338 Hani Kusumowardhani TALKS ABOUT MONEY WHEN WE DON'T HAVE MONEY 28.08.2026 51мин

  Everyone says 'in this economy' like there was ever a good one, this is a conversation on tweaking our financial/success mindset in these modern times.We sit down with Hani Kusumowardhani, she’s a Chief Compliance Officer at a leading financial services company, and we expected to be told to save more. That's not what happens. She grew up without much of it but she put the extra effort until she studied on a full Putera Sampoerna Foundation scholarship, earning her MBA in Sydney, and her insight isn't a budget, but a different measuring stick.Her advice is stranger and more generous than expected: spend deliberately, keep moving, and stop treating saving as the whole plan. We get into why spending is necessary, why the coffee-versus-property argument misses the point entirely, and why she thinks the real problem was never how young people spend.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 337 Cara Riantoputra TALKS ABOUT THE EDUCATION GAP IN INDONESIA 14.08.2026 54мин

  Cara Riantoputra, CEO & Co-Founder of Teach First Indonesia, left a “great job” great pay, great culture, great trajectory because she realized none of it would matter if she disappeared tomorrow. So she built a movement instead: recruiting the country’s most competitive graduates to go teach in classrooms that don’t have any.Her argument is simple and uncomfortable: the best teachers rarely end up where they’re needed most. We centralize talent in cities and call the gap in the villages a “resource problem,” when it’s really a decision problem.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 336 Prof. Susanto Zuhdi TALKS ABOUT REWRITING INDONESIA'S HISTORY 07.08.2026 52мин

  Indonesia is rewriting its own history for only the third time since independence and Prof. Susanto Zuhdi is the one holding it together. Now, at the center of a 10 volume, 123 writer rewrite of the nation's official history, he's fielding the hardest questions: what counts as fact, what gets left out, and questions about political interference conflict of interests. In this episode, he talks candidly about all of it, the process, the politics, and the parts that have already sparked national debate.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 335 Tiara Dianita TALKS ABOUT WHY IT'S MORE DIFFICULT TO ANSWER THAN TO ASK 31.07.2026 57мин

  Today we have another podcast host as a guest, this time Tiara sits as the person who answers the question and not asking them. Tiara grew up asking the kind of questions most kids don't get real answers to. Almost a decade later, she's still asking just professionally now.In this episode we talked about what it's actually like to build a career around curiosity, the interviews that changed how she sees life, and we also got into what it takes to build a media outlet that deliberately chose depth over virality.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 334 Tria The Changcuters TALKS ABOUT 22 YEARS OF FRIENDHSIP AND WORK 24.07.2026 1ч 3мин

  22 years, 7 albums, same five guys (the only substitutions ever made were for medical reasons, not creative)In an industry where bands are becoming the exception rather than the rule, Tria Changcuters sat down with us to talk about what actually keeps a band alive that long. From a crowd that barely noticed them to strangers in London singing their songs back to them, Tria walks us through two decades of a friendship and work that just... never stopped.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 333 Deo Mario TALKS ABOUT THE POWER OF ART 17.07.2026 50мин

  Meet Deo Mario, founder and creative director behind Post and Beam System and the reason our podcast set has looked this good all season. Trained at Bauhaus in Germany, a school that never claimed to manufacture architects but simply triggered creativity and let you figure out the rest, Deo came home to a different reality, back then architects here are often seen as glorified draftsmen rather than people entrusted with vision, part of why he never actually practiced architecture in Indonesia. If you love architecture, arts, and history this episode will get you hooked!---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 332 Nehru Rindra TALKS ABOUT FINALLY BEING FAMOUS 10.07.2026 58мин

  Losing someone doesn’t come with a manual, but a year later, Nehru’s found his own way through it. In this episode, Nehru talks about the hardest kind of loss: losing a partner, a friend, and the person who changed the direction of his career. There’s grief in the five stages he’s counted himself through, but there’s also Nehru’s particular gift for finding the absurd in the middle of it. These days, Nehru’s philosophy is simple: be like water, adapt to whatever container life puts you in, new partners, new formats, new rooms he would keep adapting to be better and just keep flowing.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 331 Adriel Simorangkir TALKS ABOUT WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY: TASTE AND COMMUNITY 03.07.2026 52мин

  Adriel Simorangkir traded a career in oil, gas, and renewable energy for something no engineering degree prepared him for: running Bimasena, one of Jakarta's most prestigious private members clubs, where world-altering conversations have happened quietly behind closed doors for almost 30 years."Exclusive and closed off is not our brand language anymore," he says, and that's exactly what we dug into. We talked about what it's like to run this institution and modernize it without breaking it, why he thinks money was never the point of exclusivity, and why hospitality turned out to be a tougher industry than any corporate ladder he'd been climbing.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Reza Chandika udah gamau lagi jadi people pleaser | Makna Talks x Grab 29.06.2026 40мин

  Makna Talks Specials kali ini, Iyas mengajak Reza Chandika untuk berbincang santai tentang sebuah tema yang sampai kapan pun akan selalu relevan: persahabatan. Bagaimana sebuah hubungan yang #TerlanjurNyahhman bisa bertahan melewati berbagai fase hidup, tanpa harus selalu hadir di setiap percakapan, namun tetap ada saat dibutuhkan.Episode ini dipersembahkan oleh Grab.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Memahami Waktu Lewat Malam Satu Suro | MaknaTalks Specials Dengan Kanjeng Gusti Mangkoenagoro 26.06.2026 40мин

  Pasrah itu sering disalahartikan sebagai menyerah.Bagi Kanjeng Gusti Mangkoenagoro X, pasrah adalah cara memahami proses, tentunya sambil tetap berjuang. Di usia 24 tahun, Kanjeng Gusti Mangkoenagoro X kehilangan ayahnya, lalu mewarisi tanggung jawab memimpin Mangkunegaran yang sudah berdiri 269 tahun. Bukan karena kompetensi, katanya, tapi karena garis keturunan, justru di situ, beban sekaligus privilege itu terasa nyata.Di Makna Talks Specials kali ini kami bicara banyak hal: bagaimana sebuah kerajaan bertahan tanpa kekuasaan politik, bagaimana Malam Satu Suro dapat berkembang sesuai zaman tanpa kehilangan esensi sampai bagaimana filosofi waktu di sistem kalender Jawa bisa jadi jawaban untuk kelelahan hidup modern kita.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 330 Pican TALKS ABOUT TAMBUN, MLM, AND THE PODCAST THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING 19.06.2026 1ч 2мин

  Who doesn’t know Abah Pican by now? The man is everywhere on your feed, and IYKYK the same man who single-handedly took down the entire Makna Talks team in a battle of wits during Arisan.Today he’s here to talk candidly about the slow realization that ambition without boundaries is just burnout with better branding, and how walking away from a stable career (with zero savings, mind you) led him to something he never planned for: becoming part of one of Indonesia’s most beloved podcasts.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 329 Nadia Habibie TALKS ABOUT CARRYING THE WILL OF "HABIBIE" 08.05.2026 56мин

  What does it feel like carrying one of Indonesia’s most respected last names?Having a last name like Habibie means people usually have an opinion about you before you even walk into the room. This is not a talk about politics or history in the traditional sense. It’s a talk about finding a sense of self while honoring the responsibility of "giving back" a value passed down from her grandfather that she’s now translating into her own work.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 328 Saykoji TALKS ABOUT HEAVIER FLOW BUT LIGHTER LIFE 01.05.2026 1ч 12мин

  Saykoji has always been heavy on the mic, but he decided he didn’t want to be heavy in life. Witnessing an Indonesian hip-hop legend conquer morbid obesity is the kind of bars we love to see. He didn’t just change for the scale, he did it to be there for his family and to have the energy to enjoy the world he’s spent decades building. In this episode, we sit down to talk about not just his view and the way he writes his hits but also the discipline it took to rewrite his own story and what it feels like to finally enjoy the rhythm of the life he’s built.---------------Ronald McDonald House Charities helps keep families close to their children during critical medical journeys—because healing is stronger when no one feels alone.Want to be part of that support system?Click the link below to learn more and make a difference today.https://rmhc.or.id/home/ ---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Pod. 327 Laras Faizati TALKS ABOUT LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND CONSENT 24.04.2026 1ч 1мин

  After a long hiatus, we are back for a brand new season! Starting with a conversation that reflects exactly why we do what we do.Laras Faizati joins us for a dialogue that goes far beyond the headlines. We unpack her personal journey, the immense weight of speaking up, and the raw realities she has navigated along the way. But as the conversation unfolds, it becomes clear that this isn’t just one person’s story. It is a window into a larger, overdue discussion on the systemic challenges women in Indonesia still face today.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Semua Ngomong Selatan, Tapi Lifestyle Hub Muncul di Utara | Makna Talks x GAFOY 26.01.2026 1ч 13мин

  Most spaces are built for transactions, GAFOY was built for transitions. We’re moving past the "mall" era and into the age of the lifestyle ecosystem. From immersive workshops to vibrant pop-ups, they're creating a space for the urbanites of Jakarta to gather, exchange ideas, and find inspiration. In this episode, we sit down with the minds behind Nika, Mamitoko, and Kirin Bar to discuss their journey within the GAFOY ecosystem which shows how GAFOY serves as a medium for urban conversation, proving that the most valuable thing a space can offer is a new idea.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Adakah Yang Bisa Menggantikan Sosok Anton Ismael? | Makna Talks Specials Dengan Anton Ismael 16.11.2025 47мин

  Being 50 isn’t a bonus chapter, for Anton Ismael, it’s a whole new canvas. From capturing spontaneous frames to founding Kelas Pagi and building his creative compound Third Eye Space, Anton has always treated art not as a result, but as a record of life itself. In this special episode, we sit down with Anton to talk about what it means to create after decades of doing it. How does perspective shift when you’ve seen the world through both film grain and digital pixels? And of course, as Anton continues exploring new ways to express himself, the line between art and technology converges beautifully. Even a lifelong analog soul can find a new rhythm in the digital, this time, with a little help from the Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.---------------Thank you for watching, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications on these videos to be the first to know our next episodes. Also, if you're reading until this section, comment down below your favorite part from this podcast!Makna Talks is available on Spotify and Youtube. Twitter: @maknatalksInstagram: @maknatalksBusiness: [email protected]
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  Cara Baru Kerja di Era Digital | Makna Talks Specials Dengan Tanya Gromenko 02.11.2025 57мин

  Meet Tanya Gromenko, the woman behind SGB VA (Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Virtual Assistant), a platform that’s helping thousands take control of their careers and work from anywhere. More than just a course, SGB VA is a gateway to freedom, where anyone with a laptop and WiFi can learn to earn up to 18 million rupiah a month, connect with global clients, and redefine what a career looks like.We also met Shanez, an SGB VA alumni who found the program at just the right time in her life. Through SGB VA, she gained new skills, found her first clients, and now thrives in a full-time remote role, working from home with confidence and stability.To know more about SGB VA, here's a link to their free online webinar:https://link.sgbva.com/free-webinar-maknatalks
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  Pod. 326 Raditya Dika TALKS ABOUT PIONEERING VIRALITY 31.10.2025 1ч 21мин

  Long before social media turned everyone into a storyteller, one man made millions laugh with nothing but a keyboard and his truth. not through a video or a meme, but through his words. His book Kambing Jantan, born from a humble blog, became a phenomenon that redefined how Indonesians saw storytelling.Raditya Dika, writer, comedian, and filmmaker became a household name not because he chased fame, but because he told stories people secretly saw in themselves.-----------------If you've watched the video until the end you probably notice there's a quick plug for our perfume collaboration with Avalanche. Here's the link to purchase the perfume, Thankyou!The Host: https://www.tokopedia.com/avalanchefr...Interview Room:https://www.tokopedia.com/avalanchefr...If you want to see other collections from Avalanche you can head over to: avalanchefragrance.com/links
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  Pod. 325 Kristian Hansen TALKS ABOUT FINDING SOMETHING IN INDONESIA WE ALL MISSED 24.10.2025 54мин

  What makes someone leave the comfort of home, travel thousands of kilometers, and discover a new life in a land he never expected to love so deeply?In this episode, we sit down with Kristian Hansen, a Danish traveler who has spent years exploring Indonesia, not as a tourist, but as someone who wants to understand its heart. Through his journey, Kristian has captured raw stories of people, culture, and everyday kindness that the world rarely sees. From riding through remote islands to helping rebuild a bridge in Wakatobi, he shares how Indonesia has changed him in ways he never imagined.He opens up about the beauty and chaos of the road, the small gestures that made him feel like family, the loneliness behind the adventure, and the moment he realized… maybe Indonesia isn’t just a destination, it’s home.