Indy Barends
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Early life
Mendya Barends was born on 15 January 1972 in Bogor to Hiras Paimatua Sidabutar and Betty Khusen.[1][2] She studied in Bogor, completing high school at the Regina Pacis School in Bogor.[3]
Career
Barends began to work at Jakarta's Hard Rock FM station as a marketing staff, where she was offered a job as a radio DJ by then-senior announcer Meuthia Kasim.[4] In 2001, during her time at the station, she co-hosted continuously with Muhammad Farhan for 32 hours, breaking Indonesian national records, and they went on to hold the record until 2019.[5] Barends and Farhan were later hired by TV station Trans TV to co-host the Good Morning on the Weekend show there. Barends later became famous after she co-hosted the talkshow Ceriwis with Template:Ill starting in 2004, and became a judge in the third season of the Indonesian Idol talent show.[4]
Due to changes in Ceriwis's format, Barends left the show in 2010 and moved to tvOne where she again co-hosted with Farhan.[4] She also became a judge at Indonesia's Got Talent in its 2014 iteration.[6] By 2017, she rarely featured in television presenting, and was largely a radio host.[7] In 2019, she announced her retirement from radio presenting.[6]
Aside from being a presenter, Barends has taken on roles in several movies, namely Template:Ill (2005), The Photograph (2007), Template:Ill (2008), Red Cobex (2010), and Glorious Days (2019).[6] In 2012, she along with several partners opened an Italian restaurant.[8]
Personal life
She married Benyamin Sarmanella in 2001, and the couple has two children.[6]
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