Nongkrong

Nongkrong Festival proudly celebrates the rich tapestry of Indonesian and diaspora culture.

05/10/2026

missing our sydney soda gembira party !! take us back plssss 🍧💕🧊🥵

Photos by Jules Sarantis

02/10/2026

WYD BESOK?!
Nongkrong is taking part in RMIT’s Frugal Canteen, a
MASS FUNDRAISER for Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre Just Food Collective and Bro I’m Baking. You pay what you can, with suggested prices being a couple of dollars. IF YOU CAN’T PAY THAT’S COOL STILL COME EAT!

With Hooyo’s House Cuisine and Fenno’s greens on the tools you know there’s going to be delicious food coming at ya!

Look out for Nongkrong’s marquee where we’ll be serving bubur with tumeric chicken broth or scrappy vegetable broth and all the toppings 🤤

Other yum things on the menu:
Democracy Sausage Banh Mi. An elevated sausage sizzle with kangaroo sausage, banh mi pickles, coriander and cucumber in a crusty roll.

Chilli lips wings with hyper-hyper-hyper local regenerative greens

Red beans’n’rice, red beans’n’rice. It’s so nice you can eat a plate twice! By Just Food Collective

Future Fries. Climate resilient potatoes from Spud Sisters with saltbush sprinkles.

Murnong Collaborative Boil Up. Brothy, smoky, porky, streeetttched with vegetables, cooked with patience, seasoned with luuuurve.

Drinks and desserts from RMIT’s Student Life Ambassadors RMIT Unlocked

We’ve got super cheap icecream from Billy van Creamy | Ice Cream and super cheap toasties from Cheer Cheese Aus

And amazing sponsors! Cookers KERRI & CATHERINE | FARM FRESH SEASONAL POTATO SUPPLIERS STREAT Melbourne Queen Victoria Market

And none of this happens without RMIT University of course 💛

Brave the rain and makan yuuuuuk!

No bookings so just rock up early.
3 October 11-4
Corner Cardigan and Victoria Streets Carlton!!

01/10/2026

Parramatta Lanes we hear you like it loud!!

Nongkrong is taking over for one night of getarrr music and good company 💙 Follow the noise to the Erby Stage.

Naarm’s KILAT is here to tour their new album ‘Tirai Niskala’, flying in with raw, noise-soaked black metal drawing on Nusantara and Javanese traditions.

Then Western Sydney darlings xiao xiao bring a collision of punk, rap, club music and trip-hop home to Parra.

Plus special guests joining the party 👀

Bring your crew, find a spot up front !

🗓 WEDNESDAY, 21 OCTOBER ⏰ 5pm–10pm 📍 Erby Stage, Parramatta Lanes 🎟 FREE ENTRY

See you there 🤘🏾

Illustration by fandy achmad
Graphic design by Tiny Studio

24/09/2026

SYDNEY // EORA!! Our very first Nongkrong party in your city was a BLESSING! Thank you for welcoming us with open arms. The energy and love from our DJs, performers, and audience were felt across the dance floor, all night long. We are still pinching ourselves!!!!

Thank you to everyone involved, we can’t wait to be back 🎀💎🧚‍♀️

Sayang selalu, team Nongkrong 💕

23/09/2026

Our Dome acts from Nongkrong presents: Gerhana 22-8-26.

Photos by ꦲꦺꦩꦶꦭꦿꦗꦶ

10/09/2026

A little look back at our shadow puppet making workshop at GERHANA 🎭

We spent a good arvo getting crafty, making, playing and getting hands-on with wayang. Everyone got to make their own puppets while learning more about the stories, characters and symbolism behind the tradition.

Big thanks to Addin S Sugarda and Aisyah Kirana for sharing their practice with us, and to everyone who popped by! 🖤

07/09/2026

GERHANA

An event of myth and metaphor, Gerhana urged us to remember against the devouring forces of forgetting.

Thank you to the wonderful talent, team & collaborators who brought this event to life. We saw an array of deep, heartfelt, and visceral performance.

We are continuously in awe of the creativity, talent, and love this community chooses to share, and are also deeply grateful to be practicing and sharing our culture on Wurundjeri land. We recognise sovereignty of these lands have never been ceded, and we shall continue to collectively fight for justice and truth on these lands.

Shot and edited by Bill Zairofi
Music by sundialll

30/08/2026

GOTONG ROYONG IS NOW LIVE!!!

Get on down to Season and makan some bubur in the sunshine. We are here until we sell out!

See you there?

29/08/2026

I hope you’re excited to try some amazing rice porridge tomorrow.

We’ve got four amazing chefs cooking for us:

First up, Nina (aka Teddie): an award-winning cook and caterer who blends her Vietnamese heritage with sustainable, plant-based creativity - shaped through time at some of Sydney’s best restaurants including Yellow, Monopole and Bentley. She’ll be making her New Century congee, a silky Viet-inspired vegan bowl.

Cheyenne is a Filipino home cook, artist, producer, writer and photographer. From pop-up kitchens to food and film festivals, everything she does is rooted in a deep love for food, community and culture. Chey will making Champorado, a Filipino chocolate (!!) rice porridge with anchovy.

Adesti Prabowo is a cultural food practitioner and creative based in Sydney whose work sits at the intersection of community culinary arts and ancestral Indonesian history. She’ll be making a bubur ayam kuah kuning topped with an onsen egg or sate usus/ati/ampela for the real ones.

We also want to welcome a special auntie, Tante Mariany Hidajat (a.k.a. Wok Mum), who’ll be locking it down with a Chindo bubur ikan, a fish rice porridge with lots of ginger. Nongkrong has hosted wok.boi many times - we’re all very keen to taste from who taught him everything he knows ;)

To pair we’ll also have some artisanal Viet rice wines from SÔNG CÁI DISTILLERY and yuzushu sodas 平和酒造株式会社 from Mai and Ang from Oi Oi will also be serving up SEA goodness alongside their viet iced coffee, chae and matcha.

For a little sweet treat, Margey from Bottomfeeder is bringing hot takes like adobo cookies, bagoong caramels and a modern polvoron. Margey is a cook, food writer and fervent fermenter who cooks zero-waste recipes that use every last bit of every last bite.

This is the last nongkrong event for our tour season - hope to see you there !!

🗓️ SUNDAY 30.08.26
🕰️ 12pm until SOLD OUT
📍Season ARI, Zetland (a short walk from Green Square station)
🙏🏾ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO MUTUAL AID

Illustrations by fandy achmad Jeed Chu

Supported by The Australian-Indonesian Institute and funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund.

21/02/2026

Can you believe it has already been a week since Pasar Senja? 🌅🥳 We had such an incredible and heartwarming day filled with performances, food, markets, energy and vibes. Can’t wait for the year ahead! 💞💫 Terima kasih kepada semuanya yang sudah datang ke Pasar Senja 2026!

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