Seriously, this is so cool. World’s largest mobile phone makers, Nokia, and its main competitor, Samsung is getting themselves ready to built plants here in Indonesia. It means two things : - Fresh money is coming in - More jobs will be created - Cheaper Nokia and Samsung handsets. Indonesia Investment Agency (BKPM) said that both are dead serious [...]
The AF-447 Airbus A330-200 disappears with 12 crew members and 216 passengers from 32 nations on board, including 61 people from France. There were no survivors in the air crash. Jopi Pelealu, an Indonesian national working for an oil company in Brazil, who would have been among the passengers of the ill-fated plane but he had [...]
It’s been quite often I posted entries about GDP growth. I had one good question from one reader in New Zealand, on how to make Indonesia grow at 7% to 8% pace per year? There’s one Indonesian presidential candidate who shared with us that ”Indonesia should become an economically independent” to achieve that growth. Sounds [...]
Indonesia’s economic growth may accelerate to 7 percent from 2011, providing a case for its inclusion in the so-called BRIC economies along with Brazil, Russia, India and China, Morgan Stanley said. A win for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the July 8 elections as projected by polls may help attract investors. Political stability and buoyant domestic [...]
Oh, I am not a tourist agent promoting Vietnam, particularly its largest city, Ho Chi Minh City. This was used to be known as Saigon, the capital city of South Vietnam before eventually taken over by the north and changed its name to be Ho Chi Minh City. It is now one of the most [...]
Amazing! Robot DU-114-V8 from the Computer University of Indonesia, Bandung, won a gold medal in the International Robo Games held in San Francisco, California. DU-114-V8, which is made by Rudy Hartono, was the fastest robot to put out a fire in the competition. “For this (open fire fighting autonomous robot) category, 11 teams from various countries competed [...]
Hello, readers. It’s been a tough weekend, sorry for not writing new entry. I got this from this blog. It’s really good to see Garuda’s new simplified and modernized livery on Airbus A330-200. Can you spot the difference from the old livery? And can you spot Lion Air, too?
Thank God, GNFI has so extensive network now. It was promoted worldwide by Radio PPI Dunia from Maryland few days ago (thank to Mr Ian) and the visitors jump is inevitable. If you managed to record the number of visitors, GNFI got nearly 3,300 visits within the last 48 hours, or slightly more than 1 visit per [...]
Indonesia’s 1st quarter GDP data is rather weak. Nevertheless, it appears that the economy will not deteriorate further. In fact, there are early indications that it will soon start to pick up its pace again. In the first quarter of 2009, the economy grew by 4.4 percent year-on-year (yoy) or slightly slower than the 5.2 [...]
Discussing about chess, so far we’ve been repeatedly informed about the great players from Russia and East Europe (ex-communist states). I am not sure why, that region creates so many famous and triumphant players. Maybe because they tend to spend most of their times to laze around and play chess to kill time. Well, maybe [...]