{"id":18,"date":"2026-09-07T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:07:07","slug":"cerita-kami","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/cerita-kami\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where the wall opens.<\/h1>\n\n\n

The story of a word, a gap in a wall, and the quiet garden behind it.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Why \u201cSela\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Sela is the Indonesian word for a gap: the space between two stones, the opening in a wall you almost walk past.<\/p>\n\n\n

Every city has them. Small openings you pass a hundred times before you notice. We wanted to build one on purpose: a narrow door in the noise of Makassar that opens into something green and unhurried.<\/p>\n\n\n

Step through and the street falls away. What\u2019s left is moss, light, and tea made slowly. That is the whole idea.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Tangan<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Bubuk<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Our approach to tea<\/h2>\n\n\n
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We source carefully and prepare slowly. Our matcha is stone-ground and whisked to order; our teas come from growers we can name.<\/p>\n\n\n

We keep the menu small on purpose: a short list, chosen carefully, that changes with the seasons. We\u2019d rather make twelve things well than forty things adequately.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The space<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Stone, moss, plants, and soft light. The room is built around the gap: a wall you slip through, then a garden that holds you.<\/p>\n\n\n

It\u2019s the kind of place where an afternoon goes quietly. Come with a book, a friend, or nothing at all.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A note from us<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sela started as a walk home past a crack in a wall with moss growing in it. We kept thinking about that little pocket of green, hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n\n\n

This caf\u00e9 is our attempt to build it properly: somewhere Makassar can slow down over a cup of something carefully made.<\/p>\n\n\n

We can\u2019t wait to make you one.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u2014 The Sela team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Find the gap. Stay a while.<\/h2>\n\n\n

We open in a few months. Come and see what\u2019s behind the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Find us<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Di mana dinding itu terbuka. Kisah tentang sebuah kata, celah di dinding, dan taman sunyi di baliknya. Mengapa \u201cSela\u201d Sela berarti celah: ruang di antara dua batu, bukaan di dinding yang hampir Anda lewati begitu saja. Setiap kota memilikinya. Bukaan kecil yang Anda lewati ratusan kali sebelum menyadarinya. Kami ingin membangunnya dengan sengaja: sebuah pintu sempit di tengah riuh Makassar\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sela-id.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}