Woman-run cafe shakes off stigma that operating a coffeeshop is a man’s job


Pro at work: Qurrata (right) making coffee at her cafe in Banda Aceh. — AFP

In what claims to be the only woman-run cafe in the capital of Indonesia’s most conservative province, owner Qurrata Ayuni says she and her baristas provide an alternative to rowdy, smoke-filled male haunts.

The 28-year-old opened Morning Mama last year to create a space that caters to women in Banda Aceh, known as the city of 1,001 coffeeshops.

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