I still remember in the early 2000’s, I visited often the forum Kafegaul more often than Kaskus. The reason is simple. The community there was more exciting to talk about the things that interest me, for example Warung Bola (WarBol) and Film discussions. Exciting here is more into a more serious and contained discussion and communication. There were many anonymous experts (of course because at the forum we all were using nicknames) who would gladly share information. This is different from the crowd on Kaskus (especially outside of FJB), which for me tend to be “younger”.

It’s been a long time (more than five years) I have not visit the forum again and recently Indonesia’s Internet universe shocked by Kafegaul and Astaga! (which is its sister company) sites which are not accessible. The same thing happened with its parent company site, PT Indonesia Media Technology (IMT). We wondered what was happened because suddenly both sites were terminated. Finally we got an explanation from Aan Afdi (with the nickname Invain) as the admin of Kafegaul and Astaga.

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