People · Writer
Aika Mentari
Content Writer at PT Hibrkraft Kreasi Indonesia, Bogor. She writes about journaling, the habit of writing by hand, and why people keep books.
In her own words
Collecting what goes unsaid
I collect silences. Between pages, between thoughts, between people. I believe the world can be written — not just described, but felt through ink and memory. By trade, I write. By heart, I listen.
Aika Mentari
She wrote that herself, on her own profile, and it explains well enough how she approaches the work here: a notebook is not an object whose specifications need explaining first, but a place where something is kept.
What she writes
Why people write, not how a book is sewn
Most of the writing in the Hibrkraft journal is hers: journaling habits and what they are good for, writing to order your thoughts, choosing a gift that means something, and notebook culture in Indonesia.
The glossary section she looks after is Journaling — terms about the practice, not about the making.
Editorial note
The line we keep
- What she writes
- Journaling, writing habits, wellbeing, gifts and notebook culture.
- What she does not
- Binding technique, leather, book repair and conservation. Those pages are written and checked by Ibrahim Anwar, who has done the work himself in the workshop since 2011.
- Why they are kept apart
- Firsthand experience cannot be borrowed. A claim about how a book is sewn, or a binding saved, has to be signed by the person who did the work.
Next
- Ibrahim Anwar — founder, bookbinder and conservator
- Glossary: Journaling — terms from the practice of keeping a journal
- Everything we write
- About Hibrkraft — the workshop, and how it works
