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Hello all, I am Irwan Joe from Indonesia. I am in 50s now. Love writing with fountain pen since child.

Hello Jakartans... I'll be in to your country from 26th April to 5th May - mostly in Jakarta. It'll be great to meet you folks. I am from Mumbai and we have a very active community here. It'll super to share stories and do some pen talk. Do let me know if you'd like to catch up. Cheers, Tarun Favourite Pens (currently): Sailor 1911 Black Lustre, Diplomat Aero and an Indian made Airmail 71 JT with a custom nib unit.

Hi! I'm a student from Jakarta, Indonesia I love pens and any kind of stationary, for that matter. I like fountain pens, and do own and use many of them, but what I'm really into are drafting stationaries (pencils, technicals pens, and such) and other stuff of a technical nature. I just love admiring the technical looks and straight lines of the pens and pecils like the Rotring 600. Aside from pens and pencils, I like cutters too, I wonder if there is a site like this too for that? Unfortunately, Indonesia is not really a good country for this hobby. Available brands of fountain pens are very limited and it gets worse when it comes to drafting pencils... And the stuff that's available in the general stationary stores are mostly quite expensive ones, which I can't really afford. I'm grateful, though, that now, starting this year, I can see the Rotring 600s and 800s with my own eyes in the bookstores. I looks like there's hope for me after all! It's worth noting that here the fountain pen is a rather unusual thing to write with. You see a few them in bookstores, but to see someone actually writing with it is very rare. We're not taught to use them is schools, like some other countries, from what I've read.

Hello folks! After being a silent reader for a while, I will try to post something here.. (english is not my daily language, so hang on.. ) I just recently fascinated by fountain pen few months ago. It's all started when me and my father went to meet his old friend in a meeting who has a S.T Dupont Elysee. Then I remembered that I have had a fountain pen back when I was 10 yrs old. I can't remember the brand but it was printed with colorful jungle and animals picture on its plastic body. The first thing I did to it was try to figure out how it is worked, try to take everything apart, ink all over places, thankfully I was able to put those back together. I brought the pen to school (got many "ooh" and "aah" from friends) and use it everyday until it broke (I dropped it and destroy the nib). I shared this memory with my father and he gave me a MB Starwalker next week (thanks dad!). And that begins my FP journey. Now I have a Sheaffer 100 M, Lamy Al Star (+spare nibs), Parker Urban and the Starwalker and bottles of inks, and I hope my collection will start growing, despite low availability in my local market. My next target maybe a FaberCastell. I see a good community here and tons of knowledge. You rocks guys!!