At a quaint cafe in Indonesia's most conservative Muslim province, owner Qurrata Ayuni and her female baristas pour fresh coffee as mostly hijabi customers sip away at Morning Mama, which also sells children's books and period pads. The young entrepreneur says she opened the outlet because it is the only one of its kind in Banda Aceh, where female customers can gather among the majority of establishments which primarily cater to men.
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00:00The process to accept yourself again, that you don't have to be insecure about yourself,
00:25especially in Bandar Aceh, there are a lot of negative stigmas that make women unable to go anywhere.
00:34So Bandar Aceh people think that women are just at home, a woman being a housewife.
00:41So they are not allowed to work, they are not allowed to work.
00:45So I try to share more with my friends.
00:559 PM, women are not allowed to leave the house at night.
01:22So if there is a woman who goes out at night, it is said that she is not a good woman.
01:28For example, now, because the morning mama closes at 11 PM,
01:33so until 11 PM, the woman is still in the coffee shop.
01:40That's it, it's very different.
01:42I don't know how it relates, but I just think that I feel more connection if I ask something with the women barista,
02:01or I don't feel any nervousness if I ask, what about this menu?
02:07What does this consist of? It's more like talking with your sister.
02:12It's a comfy community.