Qurrata Ayuni owns what she claims is the only woman-run cafe in the capital of Indonesia’s most conservative province.
The 28-year-old opened Morning Mama in 2023 to create a space that caters to women in Banda Aceh, known as the city of 1,001 coffee shops.
She and her baristas provide an alternative to rowdy, smoke-filled male haunts. “I thought why not open a place that is comfortable for women?” she said.
While the province has long been known as the site of the world’s deadliest tsunami and a decades-long separatist insurgency, Aceh’s draw for visitors is often the coffee.
The traditional sanger latte, mixed with condensed milk, is a popular staple.
