This document covers: world background, protagonist, supporting cast, zone lore (all 37 zones), main quest (all arcs & chapters), and side quest catalog. For game mechanics, see GDD.md.
The archipelago is called Nusantara — thousands of islands stretching from the western tip of Sumatera to the eastern shores of Papua. Each island is its own world: distinct language, food, tradition, and political power. They are loosely bound by a federal body called the Majelis Nusantara, but in practice, regional lords, merchant guilds, and harbor masters hold the real power.
The era is early modern — kerosene lamps, becak, radio, and steam ships, but no telephones or automobiles in most places. Old sultanate and kerajaan legacies still define city politics. A Bugis harbor master carries as much authority as any appointed official. A Minangkabau clan elder's word overrides the written contract. Tradition and modernity pull against each other, and people are caught between.
Travel between islands is common for merchants but dangerous for ordinary people. The sea is unpredictable, and Kongsi Hitam — a secretive merchant syndicate — controls most of the major trade routes, setting prices, extorting port officials, and making rivals disappear.
Kongsi Hitam (Black Syndicate) has existed for over a century. What began as a trading collective between a few powerful Tionghoa-Indonesian merchant families became something darker — a network of corruption, smuggling, and cultural theft. They traffic heirloom artifacts (benda pusaka) out of the archipelago to foreign buyers, suppress local craftsmen who compete with their imports, and bribe government officials from Sabang to Merauke.
Their symbol: a black ship with no flag. Their motto, whispered in port taverns: "Laut milik kami." (The sea is ours.)
Bapak Arjuna, a traveling merchant from Jawa Tengah, spent years mapping Kongsi Hitam's trade routes and accumulating evidence. When he got close enough to expose them, he vanished. His last known letter arrived at his desa, addressed to his son. It contained only a map of Suroboyo's old port district — and a key.
The player is the protagonist. There is no fixed named main character. Every player who enters the game inhabits the role of a pemuda — a young person from Jawa who inherits a shared backstory and sets out across Nusantara. This is a multiplayer open world; all players coexist in the same zones simultaneously.
Shared backstory (canon for all players): You are a young person from a small desa in Jawa Tengah. Your father, Arjuna — a traveling merchant — has been missing for six months. He left behind a debt owed to a Suroboyo moneylender named Pak Toha, and a sealed letter containing a crude map of Suroboyo's old port district and a brass key with no known lock. You leave the desa to find him, repay the debt, and discover what he was chasing.
What varies per player:
- Roblox avatar appearance (clothing, accessories)
- Morality score — shaped by choices made during quests and world interactions
- Quest progress — each player runs their own chapter timeline
- Inventory, Rupiah, Gold, relationships, achievements, Galeri
NPC dialog style:
- Second-person throughout: "Kamu pasti anaknya Pak Arjuna..."
- Player is never called by a fixed name in scripted dialog
- Players can set a Nama Panggilan (nickname) in their profile — used only in multiplayer social UI (nameplate, relationship badge, leaderboard), never in NPC dialog
Starting stats: Morality 50, Rupiah 500, no weapon (default punch/silat stance), empty inventory.
| Character | Location | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Mbok Sari | KotaJogja | Player's first safe haven in Jogja; old friend of Arjuna who kept his letters; gives early quest leads |
| Parmin | KotaJogja | Old warung owner; comic relief; longtime friend of Arjuna |
| Laila | Palembang | Journalist; investigating Kongsi Hitam from the Sumatera side; eventual ally |
| Pak Daeng | Makassar | Retired Bugis sea captain; knows every port in Nusantara |
| Rina | Jayapura | Young Sentani woman; guide in Papua; keeper of a clue Arjuna left behind |
| Tuan Besar | Ternate | The face of Kongsi Hitam — elegant, generous in public, ruthless in private |
| Arjuna | (found late game) | Pemuda's father; alive but imprisoned; the moral compass of the story |
Each entry: game-world fiction that draws from real regional history and culture.
Suroboyo (Jawa Timur) Suroboyo is the gateway of the east — a massive port city where merchant ships from every island converge. The harbor smells of fish, salt, and money. The old Dutch-era warehouses along Jembatan Merah now store goods for half a dozen competing guilds, and Kongsi Hitam controls three of them. Betawi and Javanese cultures mix here freely, and the famous rujak cingur is said to have been invented by a harbor cook who mixed whatever was leftover from four different ships' stores. The city has teeth — street gangs, corrupt port officials, and desperate sailors make it as dangerous as it is alive.
KotaJogja (DIY Yogyakarta) Jogja considers itself the soul of Jawa — the last keeper of the Kraton's cultural flame. The Sultan's authority here is still very real, and the Abdi Dalem servants patrol Malioboro in their traditional dress. Batik workshops line the back alleys; every pattern tells a story, and older weavers will tell you that the motif parang was worn by warriors and should not be worn by the faint-hearted. The city's famous gudeg is slow-cooked overnight in clay pots — some warungs have been using the same clay pots for forty years. Arjuna passed through Jogja regularly; Mbok Sari kept his letters.
Semarang (Jawa Tengah) Semarang is a city of layers — Javanese, Tionghoa-Indonesian, and Dutch colonial architecture stacked on the same streets. The iconic Lawang Sewu ("Thousand Doors") looms at the city center, rumored to be haunted, though the locals say the real ghosts are the ones doing business inside. The pecinan (Chinatown) quarter runs a parallel economy to the official one, and Kongsi Hitam has deep roots here — this is where the Syndicate first organized a century ago. The local lumpia is the best in Nusantara, and street food vendors are the best source of city gossip.
Bandung (Jawa Barat) Bandung sits high in the hills, cooler than the coastal cities and proud of it. Sundanese culture runs deep here — the angklung bamboo orchestras that rehearse in the parks, the kujang blade that every proper Sunda family keeps on the wall, the way people greet with "sampurasun" before anything else. The city's markets sell mountain vegetables, woven textiles, and the best mie kocok you will ever taste. Bandung has largely resisted Kongsi Hitam's influence — the local weavers' cooperative has kept outside merchants at arm's length for decades.
Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) Jakarta is the Majelis Nusantara's seat of power, and therefore the most corrupt city in the archipelago. Every official worth bribing lives here. The area around Monas (Monumen Nasional) is pristine and policed; three streets away, everything is for sale. Betawi culture survives in pockets — ondel-ondel puppets at the festival squares, kerak telor sellers at Kota Tua, the old fortress walls. Kongsi Hitam has a legitimate trading company registered here. The company's director, Tuan Besar, appears at Majelis galas. Nobody asks where the money comes from.
Serang (Banten) Serang is two cities in one: the busy commercial capital of Banten province, and the edge of the Baduy enclave — an indigenous Sundanese community that has refused outside technology for generations. The Baduy do not trade with Kongsi Hitam and never will. Some Baduy elders carry knowledge of old forest routes that Arjuna used to move safely. The province's debus tradition — fire and blade performances of Banten's old warrior culture — is still practiced at weekly markets. The golok Banten made here is said to be the sharpest in Jawa.
Banda Aceh (Aceh) Banda Aceh is the westernmost significant city in the archipelago, and it has always faced outward — toward the Arabian Sea trade, toward Mecca, toward history. The city is deeply Islamic, and its architecture shows centuries of that identity in carved mosque doorways and ornate minarets. The tari saman dance is performed here on major occasions — forty dancers moving as one, impossibly synchronized. The rencong blade is not just a weapon here; it is a symbol of Aceh's history of resistance against every outside power that tried to subdue it. Arjuna's trail starts here: a name written in his journal — a shipping clerk at Banda Aceh's old harbor.
Medan (Sumatera Utara) Medan is Sumatera's biggest city, and it wears its diversity openly. Batak, Melayu, Tionghoa-Indonesian, Tamil — they all have neighborhoods here, all have their warungs, all argue over whose food is best (bika ambon versus saksang). The Batak ulos textile is woven in workshops near the market; each pattern carries meaning — some are for weddings, some for funerals, some only for elders. Danau Toba is visible from the highlands to the south, a vast lake inside a caldera that feels like another world. Kongsi Hitam uses Medan's multi-ethnic complexity as cover — too many factions to watch them all.
Padang (Sumatera Barat) Padang is the home of Minangkabau civilization, and the rumah gadang — the sweeping buffalo-horn roofed clan house — dominates every village outside the city. Minangkabau society is matrilineal: property passes through the mother's line, and the women of the clan council hold real political power. The food is famous across Nusantara: rendang that has been cooked for hours until the coconut milk caramelizes and the beef nearly crumbles. Randai performance — a circular theater-dance that tells old Minang stories — runs in the village square on festival nights. Arjuna had a Minang business partner here; she knows what happened to him.
Pekanbaru (Riau) Pekanbaru is the capital of Riau, a Melayu province rich in oil beneath the ground that most of its people will never see. The city's official culture is proud Melayu — the lancang kuning (golden galley) symbol on every government building, the tepak sirih betel set as ceremonial hospitality, the Melayu dialect spoken in the markets. But Pekanbaru is also a city of migrants chasing the oil economy, and the tension between old Melayu identity and the new money is palpable. Kongsi Hitam has a lumber operation in the forests outside the city; the logs leave on barges heading for Palembang.
Palembang (Sumatera Selatan) Palembang sits on the banks of Sungai Musi, wide and brown and full of traffic. The Ampera Bridge — two towers, one long span — is the city's heartbeat. Palembang was once the center of the Sriwijaya maritime empire, and locals will remind you of this often. The pempek fish cake is the city's gift to the world, sold from carts along every riverbank. Rumah panggung houses perch on stilts over the water, and children fish from their front porches. Laila, the journalist, operates out of a shophouse near the old harbor. She has been building a case against Kongsi Hitam for two years.
Bandar Lampung (Lampung) Bandar Lampung guards the southern tip of Sumatera, across the Sunda Strait from Jawa — close enough that on clear nights you can see lights across the water. The tapis cloth woven here is silver-threaded and formal, worn at ceremonies. The province is also home to the last significant wild elephant population in western Indonesia; the Way Kambas refuge exists because enough people fought for it. Kongsi Hitam has been trying to route a new logging road through the buffer zone. The local ranger who has been blocking their permit applications just received a threatening letter.
Pangkal Pinang (Bangka Belitung) The islands of Bangka and Belitung were once defined entirely by tin — Dutch colonial tin mines that left the landscape pocked with lakes when the ore ran out. Now those lakes are filled with water and lined with white sand beaches, and the islands are quietly beautiful. Mie Belitung is the local dish — yellow noodles in a rich shrimp broth with tofu and hard-boiled egg. The people here are resilient and entrepreneurial, but Kongsi Hitam has been buying up old mine land at suspiciously low prices.
Jambi (Jambi) Jambi is one of the quieter Sumatera capitals, split by the Batanghari river and surrounded by the ruins of the Melayu kingdom and the great Buddhist complex of Muaro Jambi. The ruins stretch for kilometers through the jungle — more than a thousand years old, largely unexcavated, still full of secrets. Batik Jambi uses bold motifs from the Melayu tradition. The river is the city's highway, and perahu (wooden boats) carry goods between villages where roads don't reach. Several Muaro Jambi artifacts have disappeared recently; Arjuna's journal mentions a broker who moves "old stones" through this city.
Bengkulu (Bengkulu) Bengkulu is known for two things: the Rafflesia arnoldii — the world's largest flower, which blooms in the forests and smells like rotting meat — and Benteng Marlborough, the British fort that stands on the coast as a reminder that this city has always been a pawn in larger games. The local kain besurek fabric carries Arabic calligraphic patterns worked into its design, a blend of Islamic art and Sumatera textile tradition. The city is small, proud, and has never trusted outsiders much — which is why it took Arjuna three visits before anyone told him anything.
Tanjung Pinang (Kepulauan Riau) Tanjung Pinang is the old royal capital of the Melayu world — the island of Penyengat, just offshore, holds the ruins of a palace built partly with egg-white mortar. The city is close to Singapore in geography but far from it in pace — quiet fishing harbors, Chinese shophouses, Melayu palaces. The maritime trade routes that pass through here are ancient, and Kongsi Hitam has used them for just as long. The last clue on the Sumatera arc leads to a harbor master on Penyengat island who served Arjuna's ship a decade ago.
Pontianak (Kalimantan Barat) Pontianak sits directly on the equator — there is a monument to mark the exact point, and on the equinox, objects cast no shadow at noon. The city is a Melayu-Tionghoa-Dayak blend; the riverfront is lined with Chinese merchant houses, the markets sell Dayak beadwork alongside Melayu songket. The equator marker is a popular meeting spot, and more than one covert exchange has happened in its shadow. Kongsi Hitam's western Kalimantan operation uses Pontianak as its administrative center.
Banjarmasin (Kalimantan Selatan) Banjarmasin is the city of a thousand rivers — or at least it feels that way, criss-crossed with canals where the pasar terapung (floating market) opens before sunrise each morning. Sellers in wooden jukung boats sell produce, fish, and ketupat directly from the river; the whole market disappears by 8am. Banjar culture is Muslim and deeply traditional; the sasirangan cloth is a sacred textile once used in healing ceremonies, now also sold in tourist markets. The floating market is also where a contact of Laila's passes information — a fish seller who watches the cargo barges.
Palangka Raya (Kalimantan Tengah) Palangka Raya is a planned city in the middle of Borneo — wide, straight boulevards through the jungle, built as a would-be capital that never quite became one. The Dayak Ngaju people of this region live along the great Kahayan river in betang longhouses that can hold multiple families under one roof. Their beadwork, hornbill feather headdresses, and carved sapundu memorial poles are among the most striking art in the archipelago. The mandau blade carried by Dayak men is not decorative — Kongsi Hitam's logging crews learned this after crossing into protected adat land.
Samarinda (Kalimantan Timur) Samarinda is Kalimantan Timur's capital, straddling the Mahakam river. The Kutai Kartanegara kingdom — the oldest Hindu kingdom in the archipelago — was born in this region, and its legacy lives in the royal ceremonies still performed on the riverbank. Sarung Samarinda, the handwoven plaid fabric from this city, is a mark of identity for Kutai Melayu people. The river is crucial: everything moves by water here. Kongsi Hitam moves illegal timber on barges down the Mahakam — the logs are mixed with legal wood, making them nearly impossible to trace.
Tanjung Selor (Kalimantan Utara) Tanjung Selor is as far north in Kalimantan as the road goes, and then the jungle takes over. It is a small, quiet capital — more forest outpost than city. The Tidung people of the north are known as skilled river navigators, and the forests here are among the last primary rainforest in Borneo. There are things in these forests that Kongsi Hitam wants: rare timber species, protected wildlife, and a particular mineral deposit that no official survey has been permitted to assess. Reaching this zone is difficult; staying is harder. But there is something here Arjuna hid on his last trip north.
Makassar (Sulawesi Selatan) Makassar is the capital of the Bugis world, and the Bugis do not forget who they are. Fort Rotterdam — Dutch-built, now a Bugis cultural center — stands at the harbor where the Bugis once launched fleets across the whole Indonesian sea. The pinisi boats, the double-masted Bugis sailing vessels, are still built by hand in the village of Tanaberu; a good pinisi master is as respected as any official. Coto Makassar, beef offal soup served with burasa rice cakes, is eaten for breakfast. The Bugis nobility — the andi — maintain old alliances and rivalries. Pak Daeng, the retired sea captain, knows which Bugis families Kongsi Hitam has bought, and which ones still stand.
Tanah Toraja (Sulawesi Selatan) Tanah Toraja is sacred country — high in the mountains, cool and green, where the tongkonan houses with their soaring boat-shaped roofs face north toward the ancestors. The Toraja relationship with death is unlike anywhere else in the archipelago: the Rambu Solo' funeral ceremony can last days, with buffalo sacrifices, elaborate processions, and the body buried in a cliff face alongside carved tau-tau effigies that watch over the valley. Kopi Toraja — grown on these slopes — is among the finest coffee in the world. Outsiders are welcome, but they are watched. Kongsi Hitam has been trying to buy land here for a road — the elders have refused twice, and a third refusal may not be safe.
Manado (Sulawesi Utara) Manado is the northernmost major city on Sulawesi, a Christian-majority city in a predominantly Muslim country — a distinction the Minahasa people are quietly proud of. The food here is extraordinary and startling: woku (herb-smothered grilled fish), tinutuan (vegetable porridge eaten for breakfast), and things that cannot be found elsewhere. Bunaken, just offshore, is one of the great coral reef systems in the world. The sea here is clear and deep. Kongsi Hitam uses Manado's relative isolation and different cultural alignment to run operations that wouldn't be tolerated in more connected cities.
Gorontalo (Gorontalo) Gorontalo is the smallest of Sulawesi's provincial capitals, occupying the narrow neck of the northern peninsula. Karawo embroidery — laboriously cut and stitched thread-by-thread into geometric patterns — is the city's pride and the region's most recognized art form. The local binde biluhuta corn soup with fish is eaten at every gathering. Gorontalo people have a reputation for being direct and stubborn, which is why they have resisted Kongsi Hitam's intermediaries longer than expected. But something changed recently; the old craft market where Arjuna's contact worked is now under new management.
Palu (Sulawesi Tengah) Palu sits in a narrow bay, surrounded by mountains — a geography that makes it beautiful and, in the past, vulnerable. The Kaili people of this region are known for their bawang goreng (fried shallots) — a Palu export that reaches every kitchen in Nusantara — and for the ikan kaledo soup made from beef shank and tamarind. The city's position at the center of Sulawesi makes it a crossroads; information travels through here. A former Kongsi Hitam ledger keeper fled to Palu after a falling-out with the Syndicate; he is now running a small food stall and hoping no one finds him.
Kendari (Sulawesi Tenggara) Kendari is the capital of southeast Sulawesi, a city built around a bay so protected it barely has waves. The Tolaki people's mosehe ceremony — a ritual cleansing of conflict between families — is still practiced here. Kendari's silver filigree craftsmen are among the finest in the archipelago; the tetobo technique produces lacelike jewelry of extraordinary delicacy. Pemuda will find a Kendari silversmith who once made a piece commissioned by Arjuna — a pendant with a specific pattern that, when decoded, is a set of coordinates.
Mamuju (Sulawesi Barat) Mamuju is the youngest of Sulawesi's provincial capitals, carved out of South Sulawesi province and still finding its identity. The Mandar people — seafarers, fishermen, silk weavers — have lived on this coast for centuries. Perahu Mandar wooden boats are built in the fishing villages, and Mandar woven silk (sutera Mandar) is prized for its iridescence. Mamuju feels remote: it is. But that remoteness has made it useful to people who do not want to be found. A Kongsi Hitam safe house operates out of a fish processing facility on the coast road.
Jayapura (Papua) Jayapura hugs the shore of Sentani lake's outlet to the sea, a city that arrived fast and unevenly among a landscape that has been home to the Sentani people for millennia. Sentani art is among the most distinctive in the world — tifa drums with stretched lizard-skin heads, carved canoe prows, bark paintings of spiraling fish and geometric ancestors. The noken bag, woven from tree bark or orchid fiber and carried by Papuan women on their heads, has been recognized as UNESCO intangible heritage. Rina, the young Sentani woman who will guide Pemuda in Papua, knows where Arjuna went when he came here — and why he never came back.
Sorong (Papua Barat Daya) Sorong is the gateway to Raja Ampat, an island group that contains more species of fish, coral, and marine life than anywhere else on Earth. The city itself is a busy transit port — ferries, fishing boats, dive operators, and cargo ships cycle through constantly. The cenderawasih (bird of paradise) plume was once a major trade commodity; it is now illegal, but Kongsi Hitam still moves them. A feather trader in Sorong's night market is a link in the chain. The sea around here is so clear you can see the bottom in ten meters of water.
Manokwari (Papua Barat) Manokwari is the oldest colonial-era settlement in Papua, at the base of the Arfak mountains where the forest starts and does not stop for hundreds of kilometers. The Arfak people are known as extraordinary naturalists; they have named and categorized birds that scientists documented centuries later. The cenderawasih displays its plumage in the highland forest at dawn, and to see it is to understand why people have coveted it for centuries. A missionary archive in Manokwari contains a letter Arjuna wrote under a false name — the last record of where he was headed.
Merauke (Papua Selatan) Merauke is the easternmost city in Indonesia — the final edge of the map, where the savanna rolls flat toward the sea and kangguru (tree kangaroos) move through the grasslands at dusk. The Marind-Anim people here have one of the most complex ceremonial traditions in the archipelago; their sago cultivation techniques have sustained communities in this difficult landscape for generations. The city feels like an endpoint — because it is. This is where the final arc of the main quest converges. What Pemuda finds here determines the ending.
Denpasar (Bali) Denpasar is the beating heart of a world unto itself. Bali's Hindu culture — the only remaining Hindu-majority region in Indonesia — manifests in everything: the pura temples at every village crossroads, the daily canang sari flower offerings placed on every threshold, the kecak fire-dance performed at sunset at the cliff temples. The gamelan orchestra sounds different here from Javanese gamelan — faster, more intricate, metallic and shimmering. Lawar (minced meat with spiced coconut) and babi guling (roasted suckling pig) are eaten at ceremonies. Kongsi Hitam has tried to establish operations here twice; both times, the local pecalang security forces and the banjar community system made it untenable. Bali watches its own.
Mataram (NTB — Lombok) Mataram is the capital of Lombok, an island that is geographically close to Bali but culturally distinct — predominantly Sasak Muslim, with a tradition of gendang beleq (giant drum music) and peresean (rattan-stick fighting) that has nothing gentle about it. The tenun Lombok handwoven fabric uses natural dyes from forest plants. Ayam taliwang — grilled chicken with ferocious chili sauce — is the Sasak contribution to the national food canon. Gunung Rinjani, the active volcano at the island's center, is considered sacred; pilgrims climb it. There is a Kongsi Hitam courier route through Lombok — Mataram to Denpasar by boat, then to Jakarta. Finding that route is part of the arc.
Kupang (NTT — Timor) Kupang is the capital of East Nusa Tenggara, on the island of Timor, where the landscape turns dry and golden — savanna, not jungle. The Timorese tenun ikat fabric is made by a resist-dyeing process that takes months; the patterns encode clan identity, cosmology, and history. Se'i babi — thinly sliced smoked pork — is eaten at celebrations. Kupang has a frontier feeling: isolated, self-reliant, skeptical of anyone from outside the province. Arjuna came here once, not for business, but to meet someone. The person he met has not spoken to anyone since.
Ambon (Maluku) Ambon is the spice island capital, the place that Europe once wanted badly enough to go to war for — cloves and nutmeg, cengkeh and pala, that once made this tiny island the most valuable piece of land in the world. The Portuguese came, then the Dutch, then independence. What remains is a fierce local pride, the tari cakalele warrior dance still performed at ceremonies, and the freshest fish in the archipelago cooked in kuah pala (nutmeg broth). Ambon is also the origin point of Kongsi Hitam — the Syndicate's founders began as spice traders here two generations ago. Tuan Besar is from an Ambon family.
Ternate (Maluku Utara) Ternate is a volcano-island with a sultanate older than the Netherlands, a city where the walls of Benteng Oranje still stand and the sultan's palace still receives formal visitors. The Kie Raha — the Four Mountains, four sultanates of North Maluku — defined regional politics for centuries, and their descendants still do. Cengkeh and pala grow on the volcanic slopes. The harbor here is where Kongsi Hitam was formally established — there is a charter document, if it still exists. Finding it, or what remains of it, is the key to exposing the Syndicate at the Majelis Nusantara level. Tuan Besar keeps something in the old sultan's archive room. He calls it a "family heirloom."
Each chapter: Scene setup, Objectives, Key moral choice, Outcome, and next chapter hook.
Location: KotaJogja → Suroboyo Scene: Pemuda receives his father's final letter. Mbok Sari confirms Arjuna has been missing for six months. The moneylender Pak Toha arrives: Arjuna owed him Rp 50.000 and now Pemuda must pay it or lose the family home. The letter contains a crude map of Suroboyo's old port district, and a brass key with no lock.
Objectives:
- Talk to Mbok Sari in KotaJogja
- Retrieve Arjuna's locked strongbox from the desa storage
- Travel to Suroboyo (pelabuhan or bandara)
- Find Parmin's contact in Suroboyo's old harbor district
Key choice: Pak Toha offers to forgive the debt if Pemuda delivers a package to Suroboyo for him — contents unknown. Accept = Rp debt cleared, morality −15, early Kongsi Hitam entanglement. Refuse = debt remains, morality +5, arrives in Suroboyo clean.
Outcome: Pemuda arrives in Suroboyo. The harbor contact is a woman named Wulan who worked with Arjuna. She is cautious and will only talk after Pemuda proves himself.
Location: Suroboyo Scene: Wulan reveals that Arjuna had been documenting cargo discrepancies — goods that left the official ledger but still arrived at private warehouses. She gives Pemuda a hidden ledger page and warns him: someone already searched her warehouse once.
Objectives:
- Gain Wulan's trust (help with two of her side tasks first)
- Retrieve the ledger page from Wulan
- Investigate the three warehouses marked on Arjuna's map
- Escape or confront the Kongsi Hitam enforcer who arrives at Warehouse 2
Key choice: The enforcer, Bram, offers to let Pemuda walk away and forget everything. Accept = leave with nothing, morality +0, Bram remains active antagonist later. Fight/resist = risky combat, morality +0, Bram is defeated or escapes, evidence secured.
Outcome: Pemuda has partial evidence and a name: "Tuan Besar, Ternate." Wulan is shaken. Suroboyo is no longer safe for Pemuda.
Location: KotaJogja Scene: Pemuda returns to Jogja to regroup with Mbok Sari. She reveals that Arjuna's family once owned a heirloom keris that was supposedly sold — but was actually taken as collateral by a debt collector connected to Kongsi Hitam. The keris, if recovered, would prove the family's noble lineage and grant Pemuda access to Abdi Dalem records that list licensed merchants.
Objectives:
- Speak with the Abdi Dalem gatekeeper NPC
- Find the debt collector in Malioboro's back alleys
- Recover the keris (buy it back with Rupiah, steal it, or convince the collector to hand it over via morality check)
- Present the keris at the Kraton archive to access the merchant records
Key choice: The debt collector is also a victim of Kongsi Hitam — they own his debt too. Expose this and help him = morality +10, gain an ally. Use leverage against him to just take the keris = morality −10, faster resolution.
Outcome: Pemuda recovers the keris (Arjuna's Keris — unique weapon item with special morality bonus). The merchant records show that Arjuna was last registered as traveling to Palembang, Sumatera.
Location: Semarang Scene: A lead from the records points to a Semarang notary who witnessed a contract signed by Arjuna — and another party. Pemuda travels to Semarang. The notary is frightened, working out of a back office in the pecinan quarter. He confirms: Arjuna signed over his trading license to a third party as insurance before heading to Sumatera. The third party was fronting for Kongsi Hitam.
Objectives:
- Find the notary office in Semarang's pecinan
- Protect the notary from Kongsi Hitam agents who arrive mid-conversation
- Retrieve the signed contract duplicate
- Decide what to do with the notary (help him flee = morality +10, leave him = morality 0, use him as bait = morality −15)
Outcome: Pemuda has the contract. He now knows Arjuna was headed to Banda Aceh, Sumatera, on someone else's trail. Arc I complete. New destination unlocked: Sumatera.
Location: Banda Aceh Scene: Arjuna's journal mentions a shipping clerk — Ali — who saw something at the harbor a year ago. Pemuda finds Ali, but Ali has been coerced into silence by a Kongsi Hitam harbor agent. The city's Islamic community guards its own, but Pemuda is an outsider.
Objectives:
- Build trust with a local community figure (complete 1 side quest from Banda Aceh NPC pool)
- Locate Ali through the harbor workers' network
- Protect Ali during a meeting at the old sea wall
- Obtain Ali's testimony about the ship registry falsification
Key choice: A local teungku (Islamic scholar) offers to vouch for Pemuda to Ali — but asks for help resolving a community dispute first (morality +10 path). Alternatively, Pemuda can bribe the harbor master for Ali's address directly (morality −10, faster).
Outcome: Ali confirms a specific ship name — KM Fajar Hitam (Black Dawn) — that carries falsified manifests between Sumatera ports. The trail leads to Palembang and a journalist named Laila.
Location: Palembang Scene: Laila has been investigating KM Fajar Hitam for months. She and Pemuda's paths converge. She has financial records; Pemuda has testimony. Together they have almost enough — but "almost" is not enough. Laila wants to publish. Pemuda wants to know where his father is. These goals may not be compatible.
Objectives:
- Meet Laila at the Ampera Bridge at dusk
- Cross-reference Pemuda's documents with Laila's records at her safehouse
- Identify the three missing cargo entries that could expose the route
- Recover the missing entries from Kongsi Hitam's Palembang warehouse office (stealth or combat)
Key choice: Laila wants to publish immediately with what they have. Pemuda wants to wait until he finds his father — publishing now might warn Kongsi Hitam. Support Laila's publication = morality +5, Kongsi Hitam goes on alert early, story branches; wait = morality 0, father safer for now, investigation continues quietly.
Outcome: The missing entries name a warehouse in Medan as a collection point for trafficked benda pusaka (heirloom artifacts). Arjuna's name appears in the records — as a courier who refused to deliver a shipment and then disappeared.
Location: Medan → Padang Scene: In Medan, Pemuda finds the warehouse — gutted, cleaned, and abandoned. The artifacts are gone. A Batak community elder tells him that a young man matching Arjuna's description was seen at the market six months ago, buying ulos cloth and asking about ships to Padang. In Padang, a Minangkabau businesswoman named Rahimah — Arjuna's old partner — finally answers Pemuda's questions. She knows exactly what happened.
Objectives:
- Search the Medan warehouse for remaining evidence
- Interview the elder; complete a trust-building task for the Batak community
- Travel to Padang
- Meet Rahimah; protect her from a Kongsi Hitam operative who follows Pemuda
Key choice: Rahimah asks Pemuda to promise he will not pursue Kongsi Hitam if finding his father means letting the Syndicate walk free. Promise = morality −5 (a lie you may or may not keep), she gives more information. Refuse to promise = morality +10, she respects his honesty but gives less detail.
Outcome: Rahimah confirms Arjuna was taken alive. He is being held somewhere in the eastern archipelago — Sulawesi or further. Arc II complete. Kalimantan and Sulawesi unlock.
Location: Palangka Raya Scene: A Dayak Ngaju village elder contacted Arjuna a year ago because Kongsi Hitam's logging crews were crossing into protected adat (customary) land. Arjuna came to help document the violations. Then the logging company burned three forest markers and the documentation disappeared with him.
Objectives:
- Reach Palangka Raya by river (ferry from Banjarmasin)
- Find the village elder's representative in the city
- Travel upriver to the affected village
- Gather evidence of illegal logging (document 4 cut stumps, photograph company markings)
Key choice: The logging crew foreman offers Pemuda money to leave. Accept = morality −20, Rp 5.000, story continues but Dayak ally is lost. Refuse and expose = morality +15, evidence secured, foreman becomes antagonist.
Outcome: Evidence recovered. The logging company is a Kongsi Hitam subsidiary. Its parent company is registered in Samarinda. A Dayak tracker named Juhang agrees to guide Pemuda further east.
Location: Samarinda Scene: In Samarinda, Juhang has contacts among the river transport workers who recognize the company name from the evidence. The timber barges move at night; the forged manifests are filed at a specific port office by a specific clerk — who is also the Kongsi Hitam regional contact.
Objectives:
- Surveil the port office for two in-game days (complete 1 task while waiting)
- Identify the clerk and the filing pattern
- Intercept or copy the false manifest before it reaches the archive
- Confront or avoid the Samarinda enforcer sent by the regional contact
Key choice: The clerk is a young man under economic pressure — he is not ideologically aligned with Kongsi Hitam, just in debt to them. Help him escape the debt (costs Rp 8.000) = morality +15, he becomes an informant. Report him to local authorities instead = morality +5, faster but he is jailed and cannot help further.
Outcome: The manifests contain a shipping address in Makassar. Arc III complete. Sulawesi fully unlocks.
Location: Makassar Scene: Pak Daeng, the retired Bugis captain, agrees to meet Pemuda at a coto makassar warung. Over breakfast, he is direct: he knows about Kongsi Hitam, he has refused their contracts twice, and he knows where the KM Fajar Hitam goes after Makassar. But information is not free — Daeng needs something from Pemuda first.
Objectives:
- Eat breakfast with Pak Daeng (dialog scene)
- Complete Daeng's task: recover a Bugis ancestral document (lontaraq manuscript) stolen from his family by a rival merchant
- Return the manuscript to Daeng
- Receive the shipping route information
Key choice: The rival merchant who has the lontaraq is willing to return it if Pemuda intimidates his business competition for him (morality −15). Alternatively, help the merchant's competition fairly and the merchant will return the lontaraq out of shame (morality +10, longer path).
Outcome: Daeng reveals: the KM Fajar Hitam makes a stop in Kendari before heading to Maluku. Someone is being kept below deck on its Maluku run. It departs Makassar in three days.
Location: Kendari Scene: In Kendari, Pemuda meets the silversmith who made a pendant for Arjuna — a compass rose with a hidden coordinate encoded in the filigree pattern. The silversmith still has the template. The coordinates point to an island in Maluku. But the KM Fajar Hitam has already docked and left; Pemuda missed it.
Objectives:
- Find the silversmith's workshop
- Have the pendant decoded (requires crafting a copy using the template + silver ingredients)
- Book passage on the next available ship to Maluku (via Kendari pelabuhan)
- Survive an ambush at the harbor — Kongsi Hitam knows Pemuda is getting close
Outcome: Pemuda has the coordinates. Arc IV complete. Maluku fully unlocks. The ambush confirms: Tuan Besar knows who Pemuda is.
This arc can be completed before or after Arc IV — it is parallel, not gated by Sulawesi.
Location: Denpasar Scene: A Balinese pedanda (high priest) contacted Arjuna about a series of stolen pratima (sacred deity statues) from remote pura temples. The thefts were quiet, professional, and stopped when one temple's pecalang security guard was killed defending a statue. Arjuna investigated; his last Bali note mentions a storage facility near Denpasar's port.
Objectives:
- Meet the pedanda's representative at a morning ceremony (witness, don't interrupt)
- Investigate the storage facility (stealth approach recommended)
- Document the stolen artifacts inside
- Report to the pedanda — or report to the Majelis Nusantara contact in Jakarta (if unlocked)
Key choice: Inside the facility, Pemuda finds one artifact being packed for immediate shipment. Take it and return it to the temple = morality +20, the artifact is saved, Kongsi Hitam loses a valuable piece. Leave it to maintain cover and document everything = morality +5, better long-term evidence, artifact is lost.
Outcome: List of stolen artifacts recovered. One Ternate destination address confirmed — it matches Daeng's shipping route information.
Location: Ambon Scene: Ambon is where Kongsi Hitam was founded. Tuan Besar's family tree is public record in the colonial-era church archive — his great-grandfather founded the original spice collective that became the Syndicate. Pemuda needs access to the archive, which requires permission from the city archivist, who owes nothing to anyone from Jawa.
Objectives:
- Earn the archivist's trust (two side tasks from Ambon NPC pool)
- Access the colonial church archive
- Copy the relevant founding documents
- Escape the Kongsi Hitam agent monitoring the archive
Outcome: The founding documents name the original charter location: Ternate, at the Kesultanan palace. The charter, if obtained, is enough to take Kongsi Hitam apart legally. But Tuan Besar has it — and he is in Ternate.
Location: Ternate Scene: Pemuda arrives in Ternate. Tuan Besar is hosting a trade gathering at the old Benteng Oranje — in plain sight, publicly, because the law cannot touch him here. He has money, influence, and the Sultan's ear. He also has Arjuna in a private cell beneath the old fort's storage level. Pemuda must find his father and the charter — without getting killed.
Objectives:
- Infiltrate Tuan Besar's trade gathering (use disguise/morality path or stealth)
- Find the entrance to the fort's lower level
- Free Arjuna from the cell
- Retrieve the charter from Tuan Besar's private archive room
- Escape the fort — combat likely
Key choice:
- High morality path: Alert the Sultan's officials with the evidence in hand; they arrest Tuan Besar publicly. Morality +20. Tuan Besar is taken alive and faces justice.
- Neutral path: Escape with father and charter; send documents to Laila for publication. Morality +5. Tuan Besar disappears before authorities arrive.
- Low morality path: Confront Tuan Besar directly, violently. Morality −10. Tuan Besar is defeated; his organization collapses without leadership; some members escape.
Outcome: Arjuna is free. The charter is recovered. Arc VI complete.
Epilogue arc — available after Arc VI, optional but canonical.
Location: Jayapura Scene: Arjuna, now recovered, reveals one last thing: he left critical financial evidence with Rina in Jayapura — evidence that names every Majelis official on Kongsi Hitam's payroll. This evidence, combined with the charter and Laila's reporting, is enough to dismantle the Syndicate from the inside out.
Objectives:
- Travel to Jayapura with (or without) Arjuna
- Find Rina at Danau Sentani
- Receive the evidence packet
- Choose what to do with it
Final choice (determines ending):
- Hand it to Laila for publication: Ends with public exposure, maximum impact, Kongsi Hitam dismantled publicly. Morality: any. "Pahlawan" ending.
- Hand it to a trusted Majelis official: Quieter legal process, slower justice, not all members implicated. Morality 60+. "Bijaksana" ending.
- Destroy the evidence to protect specific officials you befriended: Kongsi Hitam weakened but not destroyed. Morality 40−. "Pragmatis" ending.
- Use it as personal leverage: Pemuda becomes a shadow power. Morality 0−20. "Penjahat" ending — full villain arc.
Final scene: Pemuda stands at the edge of Danau Sentani. The lake reflects the mountains. Arjuna sits nearby. Whatever the player chose — the music plays, the ending narration runs, and the world continues. The open world remains fully playable post-story.
Representative side quests per zone. Each NPC can offer 1–3 quests. These are examples, not an exhaustive list.
Suroboyo
- Muatan Hilang — Wulan's cargo shipment went missing from the dock. Find the docker who moved it without authorization. (Gather type; reward: Rupiah + intro to Suroboyo's dock network)
- Preman Pasar — A street gang is extorting market vendors. Help the vendors organize to resist — or pay the gang off. (Protect/choice; morality consequences)
- Rujak Spesial — An old street vendor needs rare ingredients from the harbor district to make the original rujak cingur recipe before her daughter's wedding. (Gather; reward: food items + lore card about rujak history)
KotaJogja
- Batik Hilang — A batik workshop's prized hand-stamped cloth was stolen the night before a royal exhibition. Find the thief. (Investigate; reward: batik cosmetic item)
- Abdi Dalem — An Abdi Dalem palace servant needs someone to discreetly deliver a message to a person outside the Kraton he is forbidden to contact. (Deliver; introduces Kraton lore)
- Kopi Malam — Parmin needs kopi Toraja beans for a special customer but the supplier hasn't arrived. Travel to the supplier's stall in the market district and find out why. (Travel/investigate; reward: Rupiah + kopi item)
Semarang
- Lumpia Asli — An elderly lumpia maker's secret recipe has been copied and sold commercially by a Tionghoa-Indonesian businessman. Help prove the recipe belongs to the elder's family. (Investigate; morality choice; reward: lumpia ingredient item + lore)
- Lawang Sewu Malam — A group of young people dared each other to enter Lawang Sewu at night; one has not come back. (Rescue; medium difficulty; reward: collectible — old building key)
Bandung
- Angklung Rusak — A community angklung set was damaged; the replacement bamboo must be sourced from a specific highland grove. (Gather; reward: collectible angklung mini)
- Kujang dan Pencuri — A family heirloom kujang blade was taken by someone claiming to be a collector. (Investigate/combat; reward: kujang weapon item)
Jakarta
- Ondel-Ondel — Festival puppets for the Betawi celebration need to be repaired and delivered across the city before the event starts. (Deliver, time-limited; reward: ondel-ondel collectible, festival cosmetic)
- Surat Tak Terkirim — An old Betawi woman wants a letter delivered to her estranged son in the port district. He is involved with a minor criminal gang. (Deliver; morality choice at delivery)
Serang
- Tamu Baduy — A Baduy elder visiting the city needs help navigating bureaucracy to file a land protection claim. (Multi-step; teaches Baduy lore; reward: Rupiah + rare forest ingredient)
- Debus Terakhir — The last debus performer in the city needs an ingredient for his fireproof oil ritual — only available in the Banten forest. (Gather; reward: special combat potion item)
Banda Aceh
- Rencong Palsu — Fake rencong blades are being sold at the market as authentic heirlooms. Help a craftsman expose the counterfeiter. (Investigate; reward: authentic rencong weapon)
- Saman Terlambat — A tari saman troupe is missing two dancers for tonight's performance — help find them before the ceremony. (Investigate; reward: saman lore collectible)
Medan
- Ulos Pemakaman — A Batak family cannot afford the correct ulos cloth for a funeral ceremony. Help them source it at fair price. (Trade/gather; morality: pay from your pocket = +10; reward: Rupiah return when family recovers)
- Bika Ambon Asli — The famous bika ambon bakery is being pressured to sell by a corporate buyer. Support the owner with documentation or money. (Choice quest; reward: bika ambon food item stack)
Padang
- Randai di Desa — A village randai troupe needs their costumes repaired before a clan ceremony. (Craft; reward: Minangkabau cosmetic item)
- Rendang Tiga Hari — Help an old cook gather the final spice ingredients for a three-day rendang. (Gather; reward: rendang food item — highest stamina recovery in game)
Palembang
- Pempek Pak Udin — Pak Udin's pempek cart was destroyed by men working for a rival. He needs ingredients and a new cart wheel. (Gather + craft; reward: pempek food items + Rupiah)
- Songket Ibu — Laila's mother weaves songket; a shipment of her best pieces was seized at the port under a false customs claim. Recover or prove the claim is false. (Investigate; reward: songket cosmetic item)
Bandar Lampung
- Gajah di Jalan — A young elephant separated from the Way Kambas herd has wandered near the city. Help the ranger guide it back safely without harming it. (Escort; morality: attacking elephant = −30; reward: ranger item reward + rare tapis collectible)
Bengkulu
- Rafflesia Langka — A botanist wants to document a rare Rafflesia bloom deep in the forest before it closes. Guide and protect her. (Escort; reward: Rafflesia collectible item)
Jambi
- Batu Kuno — Ancient stones from Muaro Jambi ruins are disappearing — a broker is selling them to outside collectors. Document the theft and report it or confront the broker. (Investigate; morality consequence)
Pontianak
- Nol Derajat — A young Tionghoa-Melayu artist wants to paint the equator monument at sunrise but is being harassed. Accompany her. (Escort; reward: collectible equator painting)
- Soto Terlewat — A soto banjar vendor's special broth pot was stolen. Track the thief through the riverside market. (Investigate; reward: soto banjar food item)
Banjarmasin
- Pasar Pagi — A young pasar terapung seller is being forced off the river by an established family group. Help mediate or intervene. (Choice; morality consequence; reward: Rupiah + sasirangan cloth item)
- Sasirangan Warisan — An old weaver wants her granddaughter to learn the sacred sasirangan healing pattern before she passes. Gather the rare natural dye ingredients. (Gather; reward: sasirangan cosmetic item + lore card)
Palangka Raya
- Mandau Hilang — Juhang's ceremonial mandau was taken by a poacher as "evidence" during an illegal search. Recover it from the poacher camp. (Combat/retrieve; reward: mandau weapon unlock)
- Betang Roboh — Storm damage to a Dayak betang longhouse needs repair before the rainy season. Help gather kayu ulin timber. (Gather; reward: Dayak cosmetic item)
Samarinda
- Sarung Tenun — The last traditional sarung Samarinda loom in the city is about to be bought and shut down by a commercial fabric company. Help the weaver raise money to buy her own building. (Trade/economy; reward: sarung cosmetic item)
Makassar
- Pinisi di Pantai — A pinisi master builder needs a specific type of wood (kayu besi) from the forest for a boat commission. The forest road is blocked by a landslide. (Gather/clear; reward: pinisi miniature collectible)
- Coto dan Kehormatan — Two families are disputing over a coto warung business inheritance. Mediate or take sides. (Dialog/choice; morality consequence)
Tanah Toraja
- Tau-Tau Dicuri — Tau-tau effigies were stolen from a family's burial cliff. Track down the thieves (Kongsi Hitam-connected). (Investigate/combat; reward: tau-tau collectible + morality +10)
- Kopi Panen — A coffee farmer needs help harvesting before the rain. Simple gather quest but rich in Toraja lore. (Gather; reward: kopi Toraja food item + lore card)
Manado
- Tinutuan Pagi — A market cook needs rare highland vegetables for her tinutuan; the usual supplier hasn't arrived and she has customers waiting. (Gather; reward: tinutuan food item)
- Bunaken Dalam — A diver found something unusual near Bunaken reef — a package, waterproof wrapped, with a Kongsi Hitam seal. Retrieve it safely. (Special gather; reward: Langka collectible + evidence item used in main quest optional)
Kendari
- Filigree dan Waktu — A Kendari silver craftsman has a commission deadline but is missing silver wire. Help source it and deliver on time. (Gather/deliver; reward: silver jewelry cosmetic item)
Jayapura
- Noken Ibu — Rina's mother makes noken bags. Her last supply of bark fiber was stolen by traders. Recover or replace it. (Gather; reward: noken cosmetic item + lore on UNESCO heritage)
- Tifa Rusak — The community tifa drum broke before a ceremony. The drummer needs specific tree root material to repair the skin. (Gather; reward: tifa collectible + rare music SFX unlock)
Sorong
- Cenderawasih Terakhir — A wildlife ranger suspects a poacher is operating near the Raja Ampat approach. Track the poacher without harming the birds. (Investigate; morality: do not harm wildlife; reward: cenderawasih collectible + morality +15)
Denpasar
- Canang Sari — A pura temple needs a specific flower for the daily offering but the market is out. Find it in the hills outside the city. (Gather; reward: Bali cosmetic item + lore on canang sari tradition)
- Ogoh-Ogoh Rusak — A Nyepi parade ogoh-ogoh effigy was vandalized. Help repair it before the procession. (Craft; reward: ogoh-ogoh collectible)
Mataram
- Peresean — A peresean rattan-fighting master wants a sparring partner brave enough to face him (non-lethal combat). Win = weapon cosmetic upgrade. Lose = Rupiah lost but morality +5 for trying.
- Ayam Taliwang — An old cook's chili plant was destroyed in a storm. Source a replacement from the highland market. (Gather; reward: ayam taliwang food item — strong stamina + brief combat boost)
Kupang
- Tenun Ikat Selesai — A weaver has been working a tenun ikat piece for six months; she needs the final dye ingredient delivered before the dry season ends the dyeing window. (Deliver; time-sensitive; reward: tenun ikat cosmetic item)
Ambon
- Rempah Terakhir — An elderly spice grower's last cengkeh harvest is threatened by Kongsi Hitam's purchasing agent who wants to buy at below-market price. Help her find an alternative buyer. (Trade/negotiate; reward: cengkeh ingredient + morality +8)
- Cakalele Tari — A tari cakalele performance troupe needs a participant for a ceremony after one dancer fell ill. Join the performance (rhythm/timing minigame). (Mini-event; reward: cakalele cosmetic item)
Ternate
- Benteng Malam — A local historian is sneaking into Benteng Oranje at night to copy old records before restoration workers destroy them. Help him get in and out safely. (Stealth; reward: historical document collectible + early intel for Chapter 14)
- Pala dan Cengkeh — Two neighboring farms are in a land boundary dispute. Mediate using old survey records hidden in the sultanate archive. (Investigate; reward: Rupiah from both parties if resolved fairly)
| Flag ID | Set by | Affects |
|---|---|---|
CH1_DEBT_CLEARED |
Ch1 choice | Pak Toha appears as enemy later if debt not cleared |
CH1_PACKAGE_DELIVERED |
Ch1 choice | Kongsi Hitam aware of Pemuda from Ch2 onward |
CH6_LAILA_PUBLISHED |
Ch6 choice | Kongsi Hitam on high alert from Arc III onward |
CH10_LONTARAQ_PATH |
Ch10 choice | Pak Daeng's ship available as free transport in Sulawesi if good path |
CH11_CLERK_HELPED |
Ch9 choice | Clerk becomes informant NPC; extra dialog in Ch14 |
FINAL_EVIDENCE_DEST |
Ch15 final choice | Determines ending cutscene and post-game dialog |
MORALITY_FINAL |
Ongoing | Affects ending narration tone and NPC reactions in epilogue |
After the main quest ends, the world remains fully open. Changes based on choices:
- High morality ending: NPCs across all islands greet Pemuda with warmth. Kongsi Hitam NPCs replaced with neutral traders. Pak Toha's warehouse in Suroboyo is converted to a community market.
- Neutral ending: World mostly unchanged. Laila's articles appear as readable newspapers in warungs.
- Low morality ending: Certain NPCs refuse to interact. Some shop prices increase. Rival zone spawns more aggressive.
- All endings: Arjuna appears in KotaJogja as a permanent NPC with additional dialog. Rina sends occasional letters (collectible items). All side quests remain available. New post-game side quests unlock per island.