At The Cooler Lumpur Festival, they believe that discussion and dialogue is the hallmark of any great society. Hear, hear!

They trust in “the irresistible and contagious power of a great idea and the latent potential it holds to inspire awareness, change and transformation” – and they try extremely hard to prove that’s actually true. 

This year’s festival, their 7th edition, centers around the topics of climate change, populism, right wing (‘white’) supremacists, #metoo et al. Title: #SUPERCANGGIH. We asked them what it means. Here’s their answer: “Canggih is Malay, it means ‘sophisticated’ – in literal translation. But it is also a colloquial term for something really cool or out of this world – something like … well, in America they would maybe say: amazeballzz!”

Here’s our translation: We need heroes – super sophisticated people that are willing to take a stand, like Kirsten Han from ‘We Believe in Second Chances’ (https://secondchances.asia/), Isaac Cheng (vice-chairman of Demosistō), Devi Asmarani (co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Jakarta-based feminist webmagazine Magdalene.co) or Juana Jaafar (who did some great research on online gender-based violence titled ‘Voice, Visibility & A Variety Of Viciousness’, and is also a co-author of ‘Revolusis: Pencetusan’, a beautiful Malay language graphic novel for teens about self-determination, power and diversity) – all of them speakers at this year’s CL Festival. 

Here’s the complete list: https://coolerlumpur.com/supercanggih/speaker/

Here’s some general info (also shows their history): https://coolerlumpur.com/supercanggih/about/

Here’s the sessions: https://coolerlumpur.com/supercanggih/session/

If you’re a student of journalism, you may be interested in their Journalism Campus program. They told Mediastudies.asia: “We very much would love to have more students in the audience as our aim with the campus is to spearhead the though leadership of young journalists.” Take a look at what they have to offer: https://coolerlumpur.com/supercanggih/session/c/journalism-campus/