Knowledge Sharing Over Coffee: A History-Based Community in Urban Jakarta

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Coffee, knowledge sharing, history, Jakarta, urban

Abstract

This study discusses coffee culture as a media for knowledge sharing for urban community. While “Ngopi” is identical to hanging out or just to have an easy talk with friends, it also relates to certain rituals and knowledge dissemination as well. Coffeehouses and other informal venues thus emerge as open spaces for disseminating tacit knowledge to the explicit ones through different kinds of storytelling. Kopi Koe and Ngopijakarta are two communities which has unique active activities regarding their passions in sharing knowledge. Kopi Koe members discuss about coffee culture and its history, while Ngopijakarta invites everybody to visit historical sites continued with informal meeting. Both communities have coffee meetings on regular basis to share their tacit knowledge. This study was aimed at exploring how these communities manage the culture of drinking coffee to share knowledge among their members? What issues they discussed which were related to their core business? This study was carried out using a qualitative study with experience approach used by Scott. The founders and some members of the communities were interviewed to get data stated in research questions. The result of this study revealed the significance of coffee culture among the members of communities to create creativity and innovation for the benefit of the individual and communities.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Awalia Rahma
AU  - Ida Farida
AU  - Alfida Marifatullah
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Knowledge Sharing Over Coffee: A History-Based Community in Urban Jakarta
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 109
EP  - 113
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icclas-18.2019.29
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