JAKARTA, Indonesia – Several nights a week, dozens of moms frequent the local 7-Eleven to learn HTML, Java script and other coding skills that can help them “grab a piece of Indonesia’s start-up boom,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

“I wanted to earn extra money,” a 43-year-old mom of three told the news source, noting that by learning code, she can conduct website maintenance remotely and work part-time from home. And she’s already putting her skills to work, having co-founded a web-based services provider.

Izak Jenie, a director at the Indonesian 7-Eleven franchisee who helped develop the program, asked a government agency to organize the “Coding Mum” program. He then hired instructors and chose several 7-Eleven stores in the Jakarta areas to serve as classrooms. “Some of them graduated from top universities; one of them went to Berkeley,” he told the news source, adding, “But often they end up sitting at home with their kids. That’s not a bad thing, but many of them might need more money, and we thought they could work from home.”

The Journal writes that learning to code at an Indonesian 7-Eleven isn’t as odd as it might seem. In Indonesia, many convenience stores serve as community hubs, where families often come to dine on instant noodles or hot dogs, and teens hang out to drink coffee and use the free Wi-Fi.

Supporters of the Coding Mum program want to expand it to more 7-Eleven locations, and hope it will help Indonesia catch up with the more established counties of programming talent found in India, Vietnam and the Philippines.