The Story Behind AnakBisa.com — Online Classes for Kids

The founders of AnakBisa have spent years working with children and teenagers. Philip Triatna and Julie Tane have created dozens of board games and card games, along with all kinds of creative games, comic strips, and animated cartoons. Mico Wendy and Angelique Handoko built anakbrillian.com and AnakDetak (an Android app), and developed BabyPlayLearn (early-childhood education), which won an international award in Barcelona.

During the pandemic, the founders often ran Zoom sessions to share what they knew with kids — and with anyone who wanted to learn. That sparked a question: what if those lessons were recorded and shared through a different medium altogether? Live streaming has real limitations — unreliable connections, the effort of preparing the right material on the spot, and the need for everyone to be free at the same time.

So we started with philipjulie.com, a set of online drawing classes delivered as video tutorials organized into teaching modules, alongside an e-comic titled Saat Kita di Rumah (“While We're at Home”). Within a month, the response from the people who joined was genuinely enthusiastic. That got us thinking bigger: why stop at drawing? Why not cooking, creative crafts, video-making, photography — the kinds of skills that help children discover and grow their talents? We landed on the name Anak Bisa, short for “Semua Anak Pasti Bisa” (“Every Child Can”). The domain was still free, too.

In February 2021, AnakBisa.com was born: a website-based online learning platform for Indonesian children, offering a growing library of fun, engaging video tutorials.

The AnakBisa founders (left to right): Angelique Handoko, Mico Wendy, Philip Julie, Julie Tane.

Here's hoping AnakBisa.com becomes something truly useful for the children of Indonesia.