A daily assembly · 05:30 — 22:00

Coffee is the
pretext. The table —
that is the room.

Majelis — an assembly, a council, a sitting together. A community-table coffee bar in Cigadung, Bandung. Long bench, slow brew, warm gathering.

—6.8993 S · 107.6266 E
7 days/wk
1 long table
2019 — now
03 · Gathering

We did not ask. They answered.

Voices from the long table, collected over a Sunday in April. The room holds about forty — but the regulars hold the room.

Seven years now. I have never ordered anything. They already know.

Omah · 68 · retired teacher

At home there are children. Here there is silence.

Rahman · 44 · carpenter

We are not customers. We are residents.

Salma · 31 · architect

First time I came I was alone. Two weeks later I knew eleven people. I never asked for that to happen.

Dimas · 27 · freelance writer

The day, in six small acts

  • 05:30
    Doors openNo bell, no fanfare. The first regular brings the paper.
  • 06:00
    First tubrukFor Pak Adhi, just off night shift. He never orders. We never ask.
  • 10:40
    A silence fallsWe never play music at ten-forty. They would notice if we broke it.
  • 13:02
    Ibu Lin's callHer granddaughter. Every day. We lower the espresso machine until it ends.
  • 18:30
    Long-table fillsStrangers, regulars, kids on homework. One bench, all of it.
  • 22:00
    Last cupWhoever is still here finishes the conversation. Not the cup.
04 · Story

Why we never advertise.

Written April 2026, after seven years, by the owner asking why we are still here.

The first year, we almost closed twice. Rent rose, guests fell, I was angry at everyone including myself. But there was one bench — the long one — that was never empty. Every morning, the same three people, the same seats. They did not know we were almost closing. They just came.

I understood then: we are not selling coffee. We are holding chairs for people who do not want to sit at home.— April 2021, on a napkin

Advertising has never been in the budget since. Not from principle — from sufficiency. The seats fill with people who have sat before. And they, in their own way, bring new ones.

Seven years later, I still ask: what did we build? Sometimes I think we are not a cafe. We are a waiting room. Not for a train, not for a plane — for the part of life that is not happening at home.

05 · Find Us

The bench is waiting.

Cigadung, Bandung — north end of the kampung, behind the warung with the blue door. Walk past the mango tree, you’ll see us.

Address

Jl. Cigadung Raya Timur No. 22
Cigadung · Cibeunying Kaler
Bandung 40191 · Jawa Barat

Tel(022) 421 8877ParkingMotor only — pondok at the backWi-FiYes — password printed on the cupKidsWelcome at the long tableInstagram@majeliskopi
Mon — Thu   05:30 — 22:00
Fri   05:30 — 23:00
Sat   06:00 — 23:00
Sun   06:00 — 21:00
Public holidays   Closed — family is not coffee.