Agung Bezharie Hadinegoro was in the midst of setting up a spanking new co-working space for East Ventures when a rather worried “warung” vendor approached the new office occupants to ask if they would be kicking him out. The VC's new co-working hub, Jakarta Smart City (JSC) Hive, was located in a busy urban area popular with street vendors, or warung.Faced with the threat of urban regeneration and new high-rise buildings, many family-run warung businesses have been relocated or closed down as city streets and five-foot ways are being “cleaned up” for upmarket offices and shopping malls since...
Warung Pintar transforms an old Indonesian tradition into an economic force © Warung Pintar
