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SBY: RI in Position to
Deal with Recession
Y
udhoyono told reporters after a cabinet meeting in
Bogor, south of Jakarta, last month
that the government might have to take what he
called “unpopular policies”. But
he assured that “whatever we do
we would continue to give priority to the protecting the interest of
low income people."
He did not specify what he
meant by unpopular policies,
but in his State of the Nation address to mark the commemoration of the state independence on
August 17, Yudhoyono indicated that the government would
not raise the prices of oil fuels,
a decision that always met with
strong public protest.
Yudhoyono noted that the
global economic condition is getting worse with the recession in
Europe, which recorded a contraction of 3%. “The US economy
has not shown much improvement”, he said, adding that “China and India are slowing down”.
He said that as prices of oil
fluctuate and tend to rise in the
world market, so have food prices as demand grows while production is hampered by unfavorable climate change. But he said
the government would ensure
the economy would continue to
grow by over 6%.
Indonesia has a $850 billion economy and the IMF fore-
"Whatever we do we
would continue to
give priority to the
protecting the interest
of low income people."
"Many still see
Indonesia as
a prospective
country for
investment."
President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono
Dr. Aviliani
Secretary of National
Economic Comittee
casts the economy expanding
6.1% this year, before growing
6.6% in 2013. The ADB is targeting growth to pick up to 6.7%
in 2013 from 6.4% this year.
Growth is being boosted by consumer spending, which accounts
for about 60% of the nation’s economic activity.
The government last year
launched a master plan for economic development (MP3EI), a
Rp 4,000 trillion ($420 billion)
project that encompasses six
geographic corridors that focuses on infrastructure development such as the construction
of roads, airports and seaports.
The plan is aimed at making Indonesia’s economy among the 10
largest in the world by 2025.
Dr Aviliani, an Independent Commissioner of PT Bank
Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), told TPP
that to ensure that MP3EI is a
success, “it must be a state mission and covered by a legislation
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JAKARTA (TPP)
– President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono
has assured
Indonesians that the
government is ready
to face a possible
global recession.
IDR 20,000
"Even in the
past when we
had very high
growth rates,
we always
experienced
budget deficits,
which were
balanced by
foreign aid."
"The country’s
low inflation
rate, strong
domestic
growth and low
fiscal deficit
were the main
indicators of a
good economic
balance."
Chatib Basri
Chairman of BKPM
Darmin Nasution
BI Governor
so that successive governments
will continue to implement it”. “I
recommend the government to
work together with PT Jababeka
as its performance is proven. The
Jababeka model should be replicated in all six economic corridors”, she said.
PT Jababeka owns and operates Southeast Asia’s largest industrial estate, which is located
at the southern part of Jakarta.
Owing to its strong domestic
demand and high import-content of its exports, Indonesia is
much less sensitive to the global growth slowdown than many
of its Asian peers. But exports —
which account for about 25% of
the economy — have been slipping, as demand for coal, nickel
and palm oil weaken in Europe.
A drop in demand and lower coal
prices — down about a third
from a year ago — have threatened to curb jobs at mining companies in Kalimantan.
Bank Indonesia governor
Darmin Nasution said the
country’s low inflation rate,
strong domestic growth and low
fiscal deficit were the main indicators of “a good economic balance.” Meanwhile, Chatib Basri, chairman of the Investment
Coordinating Board (BKPM), is
not worried about Indonesia’s
triple deficits — budget, trade,
and current account — because
“even in the past when we had
very high growth rates, we always experienced budget deficits, which were balanced by
foreign aid.”
Aviliani, who is Secretary of
the National Economic Committee (Komite Ekonomi Nasional
or KEN), a body that is accountable to the President, noted that
credit for investments has risen
to unprecedented heights.
“Many still see Indonesia as a
prospective country for investment,” she says.
Tanjung Lesung
With more than 17,000 islands and having the fourth
longest coastal line in the
world, Indonesia is blessed
with beautiful beaches covered by white sand buffering turquoise waters. Nevertheless, as Jakartans it is
quite hard to find a charming beach not really far from
the city and at the same time
a great place for weekend
getaway.
Located in Pandeglang,
Banten, the Tanjung Lesung
tourism area offers delightful beaches only three hours'
drive from Jakarta. This
tourism destination may not
be as popular as Carita and
Anyer beaches, yet it features
a memorable atmosphere for
those who seek exclusive vacation of natural beauty. It
offers breathtaking sunsets,
white sandy beaches, playful
fish and colorful corals underneath, all of which make
Tanjung Lesung a vibrant
wonderland, full of adventures and unrivaled beauty.
It seems unbelievable
that after passing through
the busy toll road, escaping Jakarta’s usual hustle
and bustle we can witness
a stretch of beautiful landscape that embellishes the
western beachfront of Banten province.
Tanjung Lesung is about
170kms southwest of Jakarta and approximately
120kms from the SoekarnoHatta International Airport.
The tourism area provides
a variety of luxurious hotels. Each offers a different
uniqueness, among them
one the Bay Villas Hotel &
Resort, Kalicaa Villa Estate,
Bluefish, Sailing Club and
Resort, and Green Coral.
All are characterized by
unique traditional Banten
architecture blendied with
their rich natural environment overlooking the famous
Krakatau volcano. It offers a
comfortable and memorable
holiday for all family mem-
bers as well as a perfect destination for romance-seekers, honeymooners, and special occasion
guests who yearn for tranquility
and privacy in a stunning natural surroundings.
ues are the main souvenir
item at the market, along
with all sorts of bizarre and
wonderful seashell objects.
Tanjung Lesung was announced as Special Economic Zone (KEK) by the Indonesian government to bolster
tourism development in this
area. It will have its own international airport and better road infrastructure. KEK
Tanjung Lesung is one of the
regions defined in the Master
Plan for the Acceleration and
Expansion of Indonesia Economic Development (MP3EI)
in the Sumatra Economic
Corridor.
Tanjung Lesung tourism
area is developed by PT Banten West Java Tourism Development, which was acquired by PT Jababeka in
2011. As a successful city developer, PT Jababeka plans
to develop Tanjung Lesung
to become an integrated exclusive tourism destination
with a wide range of investment opportunities.
Tanjung Lesung Beach actually stretches north to south for
about 15kms and is especially good for water sports. Fishing is also a favorite pastime at
Tanjung Lesung, along with boat
trips out to Krakatau, 50kms
offshore. In addition, the underwater scenery of Tanjung Lesung
makes it popular with snorkelers
and divers. It has coral reef conservation to preserve the sea life
enchantment.
Other attractions are spas, a
golf driving range, eco-tourism
sites, and boat rides to Peucang
Island, the Ujung Kulon resort,
Liwangan and Badui village. All
of this complements the charm
of this international tourism destination.
The beach is just up from Tanjung Jaya Village where a market has hawkers selling all kinds
of local wares. Rhinoceros stat-
TANJUNG
LESUNG
Rencana
Jalan Tol
Bandara
Cilegon
Soekarno-Hatta
Serang
Jakarta
Tangerang
Pandeglang
Labuan
Bogor
Ujung Kulon
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Government to Build
Infrastructure at Tanjung Lesung
The Banten provincial government has made
plans to build transportation facilities from
Serang-Pandeglang-Labuan and South Banten
airport to support KEK Tanjung Lesung.
President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono visited the booth of
Tanjung Lesung Special Economic Zones (KEK) at the Indonesia International Infrastructure Conference & Exhibition
(IIICE 2012).
Tanjung Lesung has been established as KEK as part of the
MP3EI program. The construction of Tanjung Lesung as the
belle of international class tourism destinations like Phuket,
Langkawi, Kosamui and Bali is
designed to alleviate the people
of South Banten from poverty.
President SBY and Coordinating Minister of The Economy, Hatta Rajasa visited booth of KEK Tanjung Lesung at Indonesia International Infrastructure Conference & Exhibition 2012. Tanjung Lesung is one of the regions
defined in the MP3EI in the Sumatra economic region.
Tjahjadi Rahardja, President
Director of PT Banten West Java
Tourism Development as the developer of the Tanjung Lesung,
said: "Investors of marina, golf
course, hotel, zoo, theme park,
malls are expected to flock to invest in this area, which has very
promising potential as a worldclass tourist destination."
Investors of marina, golf
course, hotel, zoo, theme
park, malls are expected to
flock to invest in this area,
which has very promising
potential as a world-class
tourist destination."
Tjahjadi Rahardja
President Director of
PT. Banten West Java
Tourism Development
To support KEK Tanjung Lesung, the road to and from the
area needs to be widened. The
Banten provincial government
has made plans to build transportation facilities from SerangPandeglang-Labuan and South
Banten airport to support KEK
Tanjung Lesung.
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September 2012
Opinion
The Role and Contribution of Education
in Strengthening Nationalism
The Indonesian
history has recorded
three golden
contributions from
education and
student movements
to establish and
maintain Indonesia
as a country with
diversity. We can see
how Budi Utomo and
a student movement
had led to the Youth
Pledge. The question
now is, how to make
education to maintain
a strategic role in
strengthening the
country’s unity amid
the globalization era.
www.indonesiaberprestasi.web.id
The first two intelligence aims
at creating a democratic mindset, respect for human rights,
diverse community and awareness about the nation and understand the rights and obligation as an Indonesian citizen.
By Prof. Anak Agung Banyu Perwita, Ph.D
I
n the context of a unitary state, nationalism
is seen not only as a person’s stance to sacrifice
oneself to uphold the
dignity and sovereignty
of a country, but also his or her
positive contribution in every aspect of the national development
agenda. In other words, nationalism requires wisdom in looking
at our shortfalls as a community, citizen, country and the willingness to introspect so that we
can achieve the nation’s goals to
become a country as envisioned
by our Founding Fathers.
This is expected to build a
national awareness on how to
achieve the vision and mission
as laid out by the National Education Ministry so that education in Indonesia can play a
strategic and constructive role
to bolster the national perspective in strengthening the country’s unity.
It’s at this point that bolstering a new nationalism spirit as
part of the national security system is important. A solid understanding of a security concept
regarding what the nation really means becomes the top priority in maintaining the country’s existence comprehensively.
This is especially necessary in
light of emerging ethno-nationalism sentiments, which based
its foundation on primordial relations (ethnicity, religion, race
and intergroup relations) that
could endanger Indonesia’s integrity as a country and nation.
not only plays a significant role
but also has a strategic position
and value in maintaining unity. The Indonesian history has
recorded three golden contributions from education and student movements to establish and
maintain Indonesia as a country with diversity. We can see
how Budi Utomo and a student
movement had led to the Youth
Pledge. The question now is, how
to make education to maintain
a strategic role in strengthening
the country’s unity amid the globalization era.
In this context, high education
If we refer to Indonesia’s edu-
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The National Education
Ministry in 2005
underlined a vision
(2025), “Smart and
Competitive Indonesian”.
This vision was
translated into a mission
“Creating education
that can produce smart,
competitive, fair, qualified
Indonesian people
relevant to local and global
community needs”.
cation quality aspirations, the
National Education Ministry in
2005 underlined a vision (2025),
“Smart and Competitive Indonesian”. This vision was translated into a mission “Creating education that can produce smart,
competitive, fair, qualified Indonesian people relevant to local
and global community needs”. In
its efforts to translate the vision
and mission, the National Education Ministry divided it into
several aspects. In this context,
“smart individual” is made up of
spiritual intelligence, emotional and social intelligence, intellectual and kinetic intelligence.
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To make it easier for people
to understand, these noble missions have to be translated into
various policies and integrated education curriculum. Article 4 in the National Education
Standards (SNP) stated “The National Education Standards are
aimed at ensuring the national
education quality to produce intelligent individuals and a dignified country”. And thus, education institutions must have the
will and ability to provide education materials in accordance
with the vision and mission to
create a fair and democratic life
in Indonesia.
Operational-wise, things that
are considered normative should
be channeled into various forms
and education materials. It can
be reflected in various subjects that emphasize on promoting culture of peace. One of the
main aspects in the culture of
peace is tolerance (monolog and
dialog) towards the cultural diversity, religions and social values in Indonesia. The culture of
peace will also pave the way for
culture of dialogs, sensitivity towards justice, human rights and
solidarity that are much needed
by Indonesia nowadays. In other
words, the culture of peace can
be expected to eradicate the culture of violence/war that is rampant in Indonesia’s social lives.
According to UNESCO, many
developing countries are facing internal problems that stem
from their cohesiveness that is
derived from the culture of violence and which are common in
those countries. Furthermore,
the culture of peace also requires
a multidiscipline education paradigm which involves environment, sustainable economic development awareness that is
blended in the social community
life of the Indonesia people.
The writer is a professor of
International Relations and
Chairman of International
Relations Study at President
University.
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Opinion
Beyond Green Economy
The Concept of “Economy+”, an Approach Toward Sustainable and Equitable Growth
www.greenups.net
Many experts found
the Green Economy
concept is inadequate
to secure the
achievement of green
prosperity which
should not only
benefit the high and
uppermiddle class
up stakeholders but
the benefits should
be shared by “all”, in
an equitable manner.
So, Green Economy
has been critisized for
being inadequately
addressing social
inequitability
problems. Therefore
the concept must be
further improved
to overcome these
weaknesses.
By Luluk Sumiarso*
A
n Economic Order
or the application
of certain principles
and
development
philosopy that a nation follows and implements in its economic system
is normally based on a specific value that the nation believes
is worthy for its progress toward prosperity. Some experts
say that Economic Philosophy is
part of the 7 elements of a civilization which are recognized universally (Kuntjaringrat et al).
Together with the Social
Philosopy, commonly called the
Socio-Economic System, they
form a “setting” or “premise” of
the societal or national order;
Science, Technology and Language are the “tools” in the context of a civilization, and the
Art element, identifiable within the society, are depicting the
aestethical aspects of the Nation’s Civilization.
An Economic Development is
aimed at bringing positive growth
to the economy toward achieving prosperity of a nation, but
in conventional terms, economic “growth” is also bringing some
serious drawbacks to the quality
of the civilization, which manifest in the deterioration of the environment. Over- exploiting natural resources at global scale in
the name of progress and development have left bad footprints
to the environtment. Not to say
the negative social impacts. In
the energy sector, for example,
the global economic growth have
been relying overwhelmingly on
fossil energy, which the use of
it excessively have lead to great
GHG emissions into the planet’s
atmosphere and have triggered
the global climate change which
we are beginning to experience
today. Excessive and uncontrolled deforestations, unproper
land utilizations, and bad practices in waste management have
aggravated the degree of environmental damage on this planet. We all realize that it will take
a lot of efforts and huge amounts
of money to restore or mitigate
the negative impacts of economic growth on the environment
and the complex social problems
resulting from inequalities and
injustices. Much of the environmental damages are not or difficult to be expressed in monetary terms, yet they really form
the “externality costs” or “negative externalities” of the conventional economic growth that
we have known today. We label
such a conventional growth pattern as “brown growth”, or “unsustainable growth”.
Facing such negative impacts
to the environmental devastation and the excessive use of fossil energy resulting from the con-
ventional growth pattern, world
experts and leaders introduce
the concept of “Green Economy”.
This concept addresses the issues of excessive exploitation of
the natural resources, the inefficient use of energy, and reducing the global dependance
on fossil energy by developing
and exploiting clean and renewable energy. The operating vehicle for achieving the objectives of
the Green Economy is generally
referred to as Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).
This strategy is geared toward achieving proper and more
efficient exploitation of natural resources on both sides of
the consumption and production equation toward achieving
“green prosperity”. The way to
achieve such goals is adopting
‘Green Technology’ and using
‘Green Engineering’ as its operating vehicle. The business sector will strive to practice ‘Green
Business’,
inspired by spirit called “ Green Entrepreunership”. However, many experts
found the Green Economy concept is inadequate to secure the
achievement of green prosperity which should not only benefit
the high and uppermiddle class
up stakeholders but the benefits should be shared by “all”, in
an equitable manner. So, Green
Economy has been critisized for
being inadequately addressing
social inequitability problems.
Therefore the concept must be
further improved to overcome
these weaknesses.
ward achieving social equitibility will be called “for all”, and for
both of them will be called “+”.
This “plus (+) spirit” is derived
from the aspirations contained
in the ESM.
We believe that this spirit or
aspiration should be internalized in all endeavours toward
green and equitable prosperity.
In other words we believe that
“green prosperity for all” will be
achieved if, and only if, every
sector of the economy will apply this +spirit to all its productive activities. So, we hope to see
the concepts adopted in sectors
as the Energy+, Mining+, Industry+, Forestry+, Tourism+ and so
on. When we speak of sustainable development at regional or
provincial level in Indonesia, we
also hope stakeholders at that
levels will adopt the + spirit, so
we can say a province or region
which adopt sustainable development concept would call their
respective entities Province+ and
Kabupaten or Kota +, village +,
etc, so it will form a national system of “National Economy+” or
even “Regional Economy+” .
Sound idealistic? May be yes,
but we believe it is achievable.
What about Indonesia?
It was Josef Riegler, an Austrian politician who in the 80’s for
the first time introduced the concept of “Eco-Social Market Economy” (ESM) which he proposed
as the new direction for the economic growth. This concept is
meant to address the issues of
growth which will not only environmentally sustainable, but the
results of the economic growth
will also be equitibly shared by
all. To understand more easily about ESM concept, we introduce the terminology of “Economic +”which is “Beyond Green
Economy” and it’s expected to be
able to achieve not merely green
prosperity but green prosperity
for all, or a sustainable wellbeing
for everyone. For sure, the needed ‘instruments’ to achieve the
goals of “Economy+” must be alligned with its objectives.
Our National Development
Goal, as it is clearly mandated
by our Constution, is not only to
achieve a prosperity for the people, but the prosperity must be
equitably shared by the whole
nation. Looking at this premise, this country has basically
already adopted the principle of
the plus (+) spirit as we referred
to above. Until late 70’s of the last
century, we had not paid serious
attention to the environmental
impacts of the economic development. By then, the concept of
“environmental sustainability”
was not invented as yet. A Ministry of Development Supervision and Environment was only
established almost a decade later, in 1978, which clearly recognized the inter-relation between
economic development and the
quality of environment. The
Ministry was established to anticipate and overcome environmental issues that may occur
or have occurred in the National Development process, and our
concerns and awareness of environmental problems have grown
stronger ever since.
New instruments or operating components of the “Economy +” will include the “Technology +” which should not only be
producing green and clean products and services but these items
must also be appropriately useful in line with the objectives of
the “Economy+”. In this issue we
could say that everything that
are “environmentally sustainable” will be called “green”, and
suggest that all endeavours to-
In fact, back in 2004, in the
context of the national energy
policy, the government, through
the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources had paid attention to this strategic component
of ‘ the green economy’, by issuing a policy statement which
then was called “Green Energy Initiative”. This initiative addresses the development of New,
Renewable Energy, and Energy
Conservation for the country de-
velopment. But apparently this
“initiative” did not come to a realization accross the government
bureaucracy, so it went quitely
into the land of the forgotten.
But in 2006 when the oil price
hit a record high in the world
market, (the highest in history since it reached around USD
130 per barrel), the government
got a wake-up call to reduce the
country’s overly dependence on
oils, which eventually lead to the
government issuing a Presidential Decree no.5/2006. This decree set a target contribution of
17% for clean and renewable energies to the total national energy mix by 2025. Later in 2010,
the MEMR even saw a more optimistic vew of this target by unofficially increase it to 25% by the
same year through what it was
popularly called the “Clean Energy Initiative 25/25”. In fact the
initiative was made in a truely
green spirit, then. But again, it
was lacking adequate response
accross the mire of policy makers and regulators in other sectors.
Meanwhile, in late 2010 the
MEMR took another initiative to
support its newest policy statement on green energy. Using
similar principles and in analogy
with Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) initiative, which
has gained positive response
world-wide, MEMR introduced
the concept of the energy sector’s
Reducing Emissions from Fossil Fuels Burning (REFF-Burn).
This concept follows fossils fuels
burnings in three stages which
are the Pre-combustion, During Combustion and Post Combustion processes. Each stage of
these processes will need specific strategy and measures in controlling and reducing the CO2
emissions, each with its technology specific measure, suitable
policies and financing scheme.
The MEMR has also endeavoured to prepare these measures, but again, this concept
would be meaningless if no actual and operational actions have
been established properly and
consistently by all stakeholders.
To make REFF-Burn initiative works it should be supported by dedicated technology, policy, and regulatory frameworks,
business models and financing
mechanism required for the development of clean energy. The
financing mechanism then included the clean development
mechanism and CO2 emission
trading under the Kyoto Protocol. But in the wake of the Protocol’s expected demise by end
2012, it can eventually utilize
the protocol’s expanded frameworks which includes Bilateral Offset Mechanism(BOM) and
the National/Local Carbon Market (NCM or LCM) , which mech-
anism are still to be established.
Today, our development philosophy is not just Pro-Growth,
Pro-Job, and Pro-Poor, but also
Pro-Environment. Many people
may not have realized that we
are actually adopting this very
concept of “Economy +”. But unfortunately, perhaps obliviously,
our development is not moving
toward that end, at least as yet.
It’s like our national philosophy
the Pancasila, when it was formulated for the first time by one
of our Founding Fathers, Soekarno, back in 1945. The nation’s
plus (+) Spirit was there for ages,
but we took it for granted and did
not comprehend it as a system. It
needs a clear formulation of the
concepts or philosophy, if you
like, to enable everybody consciously aware about it and then
properly and consistently act toward achieving what we as a nation wish to accomplish .
Meanwhile our concerns
on the issues of maintaining
our environment quality have
been clearer expressed in political terms. We sincerely believe
that President Soesilo Bambang
Yudhoyono (SBY) was genuinely aware of the strategic importance of the above issue when
he made a pledge to the world in
September 2010 to reduce Indonesia’s contribution to the global greenhouse gas (GHG) by 2641% by 2020. Subsequently, in a
retreat with his ministers, governors and high officials at Tampak Siring (Bali) in the same
year, SBY had expressed his intention to build “green economy”.
SBY has even made it clearer in
his speech at the United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development - the Rio +20, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, in June, 2012,
that Indonesia wanted to build its
economy on the basis of sustainable and equitable development.
So once again, Indonesia has actually recognized the strategic
concept which we now call the
“Economy +”. Therefore, we need
a clear and consitent strategy toward the implementation of the
concept in the actual operation
of the development. It is rather
sad to see the painstakingly prepared Master plan for the Acceleration of Indonesian Economic
Development (MP3EI) is anything but “green”. Therefore, the
concept must be elaborated correctly and comprehensively covering the holistic perspectives of
the national development, or in
other word, the Master Plan is
supposed to be adjusted to adopt
the plus (+) spirit .
Perhaps the energy sector
could be inspired by what Telecommunication sector has accomplished in the so called Universal Service Obligation (USO)
concept. The government policy under this concept obliged
telecommunication services us-
Josef Riegler, an
Austrian politician
who in the 80’s
for the first time
introduced the
concept of “EcoSocial Market
Economy” (ESM)
which he proposed
as the new direction
for the economic
growth. This
concept is meant
to address the
issues of growth
which will not only
environmentally
sustainable, but
the results of the
economic growth
will also be equitibly
shared by all.
ers in urban areas to pay an extra charge or premium, which
the government and the operators could use to provide services to the people living in remote
areas. Under this concept, telecommunication services could
be shared by all, and succesfully enabled the rural people to
enjoy this this 21st century modernity. The success of USO
concept in the telecommunication sector could be replicated in
other economic sectors like energy and transportation. Surprisingly, some administrations at
the provinces and city level have
declared themselves green, but
it is unknown if such declaration was based on and following
the right concept in their development plan and implemention
stages.
I hope that after the Rio+20 ,
all stakeholders , which consist
of the government and lawmakers, businesses and the civil society, the academics and researchers (the so called “triple helix”)
together will make the concept of
the “Economy +” works toward
achieving green, sustainable,
and equitable growth and prosperity in this beloved country.
*Founder and Chairman of
the International Institute for
Clean Energy and Climate
Change (IICECC) and former
Director General of New,
Renewable Energy and Energy
Conservation with the MEMR.
September 2012
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Focus
As the Global Economy Weakens,
Indonesia Needs to Make Adjustments
By Atmono Suryo
WEAKENING GLOBAL
ECONOMY
R
ecent trends in the
global economy have
not been encouraging. On the contrary,
it is quite worrying
to observe that the global economic crisis of 2008 is now in its
fourth year. Yet dark clouds remain in the air with no silver linings in sight, at least not for the
immediate years ahead.
The global economy continues to show its weakening trend
during the first half of the current year. It is expected that the
weakening will continue during the year 2012 and 2013. As
stated by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, there is
a weakening trend in the areas
of investment, jobs and manufacturing, notably in such key
countries as Europe, the US,
Brazil, India and China.
The Eurozone debt crisis continues to be the most crucial
problem. A number of new solutions are now being considered,
such as the possibility to establish a banking union and the
move towards a fiscal union. It
is not clear yet where the United States and Japan will eventually be heading. It is rather disappointing that the recent G20
meeting in Los Cabos (Mexico) did not give us some positive
clues on how the global economy
can turn up in a more encouraging direction.
EMERGING COUNTRIES
Figure 2. East Asia and Pacific Annual GDP
Figur 1. Real GDP Growth 2010-2011
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
2010
2010
2011
2012 F
2013 F
East Asia
9.3
7.0
6.3
7.0
Developing East Asia
9.7
8.2
7.6
8.0
2011e
China
East Asia
& Pacific
South
Asia
Europe &
Central Asia
Sub-Saharan Latin America Middle East
Africa
& Caribbean & North Africa
OECD
Source World Bank, January 2012
A rather new trend to observe,
however, is that key emerging
countries of BRIC, Brazil, China and India, are also showing
signs of a slowdown. These three
countries together with Russia
represent some 20% of the world
economy.
In this present interdependent
world it is quite worrying for the
world community to see the global economy facing an increasing
risk of a possible severe downturn, as it will no doubt have an
impact on the global economy for
many years to come.
East Asia
With the largest part of the
global economy in a weakening
position, the key question for us
in Asia is, how would Asia fare
in such a risky global environment? Apparently, Asia seems
to be better off. World Bank assessment is that Developing East
Asia and Pacific countries are
slowing but are still strong.
According to the World Bank’s
statistics, in 2011 the region’s
growth declined from nearly 10%
in 2010 to 8.2% in 2011 (4.3%
excluding China). But this overall percentage is still higher than
the other developing regions, especially when compared to the
more advanced OECD countries
(Figure 1).
Developing countries and
economies in transition are expected to continue to be a driving force of the world economy.
The question may arise whether these countries should not be
better organized and coordinated (as in the past) to become a
more effective economic power
house in the global economy. To
that end perhaps the East Asian
countries (including in particular Indonesia with its past experience) should take the lead,
namely to promote South-South
trade.
As to the East Asia and Pacific region, it is suggested (among
others by the World Bank) that
it should reduce its reliance on
exports and find new sources of
growth. The suggestion to reduce
10.4
9.2
8.2
8.6
Indonesia
6.2
6.5
6.1
6.4
Malaysia
7.2
5.1
4.6
5.1
Philippines
7.6
3.7
4.2
5.0
Thailand
7.8
0.1
4.5
5.0
Vietnam
6.8
5.9
5.7
6.3
Cambodia
6.0
6.9
6.6
6.7
Fiji
-0.2
2.0
1.5
1.7
Lao PDR
8.5
8.0
8.3
7.5
Mongolia
6.4
17.3
17.2
11.8
Papua New Guinea
7.5
9.0
7.0
5.0
Solomon Islands
7.0
9.0
6.0
4.0
Timor-Leste
9.5
10.6
10.0
10.0
7.0
4.3
5.2
5.6
World
4.2
2.8
2.6
3.0
High-income countries
3.1
1.6
1.5
1.9
Developing countries
7.3
6.2
5.5
5.7
Developing EAP excl. China
Assumptions about external environment
Source: World Bank
its reliance on exports will not
be attractive and not workable
for countries like Indonesia and
many other East Asian countries, especially now that their
trade tends to face the problem
of trade deficits. What should be
done instead is to reduce its reliance on exports to advanced
countries with its slackening demand, in particular for manufactured consumer goods.
INDONESIA
Indonesia is in a better posi-
tion than many other developing
countries because of its relative
abundance in natural resources
and its enormous large domestic markets. It will not be difficult for Indonesia not to rely too
much on the global market and
expand its domestic market.
In fact the expanding market in Indonesia has become
so attractive for other countries
with the risk that Indonesia becomes a “consumer’s state” and
not a “producers state”. Indonesia should not fall in that trap!
More attention should be given
to the slogan of capacity building rather than consumption
building (which is much easier
to achieve).
In Developing East Asia, Indonesia is among the achievers of
high growth for the period 20102013 (Figure 2)
With its high growth profile
it will be most appropriate and
even urgent for Indonesia to aim
among others at the following
objectives:
a.To increase its capacity-building power to improve its exports and avoid the problem
of trade-gaps as many developing countries are facing
(such as India). The growth of
imports for development goods
(machinery etc) is still important.
b.To improve its domestic real
sectors, including the so-called
micro-sectors (compared to
the macro-sector which is already in good shape). Especially to improve areas affecting the poor and unemployed
sectors of the population.
c.To urgently improve its infrastructure which is desperately needed to take the country
to higher rates of growth in its
economy. With its poor infrastructure the situation of the
country is in chaotic state situation
Global GDP
In terms of GDP Indonesia is
presently in its 16th place. Only
6 emerging countries are rated
in the top 20 large countries in
the world, namely China, Bra-
Indonesia is in a
better position than
many other developing
countries because of
its relative abundance
in natural resources
and its enormous large
domestic markets.
zil, India, Mexico, Korea and Indonesia.
There are predictions among
international observers that Indonesia has the capability to
improve its position in the global economy and to be rated in
the Top 10 large countries in the
world.
At the same time it is also recognized that Indonesia has its
many shortcomings. Recently
the country is even being mentioned in the list of Failed States
Index to be in the “warning
state“. This is an unexpected signal coming from one of the international think tanks, Fund for
Peace, and Foreign Policy magazine.
In any case the time has come
for Indonesia to give closer attention to the weak aspects of the
country which are already wellknown. Particularly in the domestic area of the country which
is weakening Indonesia’s position in the international world.
The writer is former ambassador
to the EU.
September 2012
A5
Law & Regulation
Gratification: Be Careful in
Giving or Accepting Gifts
Education on anti
corruption must be
taught early to the
young Indonesian
generation so that
they can have a anti
corruption attitude
and mentality when
they mature.
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E
ntrepreneurs are
often embroiled
in a gratification
culture once they
receive help from
their
partners
that help to sustain their business. The gratitude shown by
the entrepreneurs to partners
come in various shapes and
forms. In fact, the social ties are
seen not only in the business
context. For instance, an entrepreneur would give his partner,
who happens to be a government official, gifts on his birthday. This is actually a common
practice and has become part of
the dynamics of the social life.
But one must be careful because sometimes gifts and gratitude could lead to a legal consequence for those who gave or
received the gifts. In the legal
context, the practice is called
bribery and gratification for the
recipients
Until today, gratification is still a common practice among businesspeople to smoothen their businesses. Gratification has become some kind of a culture among both entrepreneurs
and state apparatus when business brushes with the state. The gift is given in the events of small things such as when applying for permit to large things such as to win a project
tender.
What is bribery? What is
gratification?
Who should we be cautious
about when giving?
Law No.31/1999 which has
been revised to Law No.20/2001
about anti corruption stated
that bribery included actions as
follow:
Article5clause(1):“Punishable
by a minimum of 1 (one) year
jail sentence and a maximum
of 5 (five) years and or fine of
at least Rp50,000,000.00 (fifty million rupiah) and a maximum of Rp250,000,000.00 (two
hundred and fifty million rupiah) for every individual that:
• Gave or promised something
to a civil servant or state apparatus with the intention
to make the civil servant or
state apparatus commit an
action that goes against his/
her duty or not to carry out
his/her duties; or
• Gave something to a civil servant or state apparatus because of/or related to something that goes against his/
her duties that he/she should
or shouldn’t have done based
on his/her obligation.”
The anti graft law contained
the phrase “state apparatus”,
and “civil servants”. So, who are
state apparatus?
The definition of state apparatus refers to Article 2 of Law
No.28/1999, which stated that
state apparatus should be clean
and free from corruption, collusion and nepotism practices and
they include:
• State officials in the state’s
highest institution;
• State official in the state’s high
institutions;
• Ministers;
• Governors;
• Judges;
• Other state officials as stated
by the existing laws and regulations (Ambassadors, Deputy Governors, District Heads/
Mayors, and
• Other officials who hold strategic functions in running the
state according to point a. and
the existing regulations and
laws.
a.Commissioners, Directors,
Executives in the structural organizations of stateowned enterprises and regional-owned enterprises
b.BI’s leaders and leaders of
the National Bank Restructuring Agency
c.Heads of State-owned Universities
d.Echelon I officials and other
officials of equal ranks both
in the military and police
force
e.Prosecutors
f. Investigators
g.Clerks at courts
h.Project leaders and treasurers
Article 5 clause (2)
“Civil servants or state apparatus who received gifts or
promises as stated in clause (1)
alphabet a or alphabet b, will be
punished in accordance with
clause (1).”
Article 11
“Punishable by a minimum of
1 (one) year jail sentence and a
maximum of 5 (five) years and or
fine of at least Rp50,000,000.00
(fifty million rupiah) and a maximum of Rp250,000,000.00
(two hundred and fifty million
rupiah) for civil servants or state
apparatus who received gifts or
promises when they knew or
they should’ve suspected that
the gifts or promises were given because of his/her power or
authority related to his/her position, or other people think that
the gifts or promises were related to his/her position.”
The government
has made various
efforts to solve the
gratification problem.
Various regulations
have been issued
but they have yet
to become effective
in preventing
gratification practice
by entrepreneurs to
state apparatus. The
main problem lies
in law enforcement.
The regulations
issued should have
been implemented
but in reality there
were so many weak
implementation of
the law.
actually very subjective and relative. There is no absolute limit
on whether or not the gift is appropriate.
Until today, gratification is still
a common practice among businesspeople to smoothen their
businesses. Gratification has
become some kind of a culture
among both entrepreneurs and
state apparatus when business
brushes with the state. The gift
is given in the events of small
things such as when applying for
permit to large things such as to
win a project tender.
By Paulus Khierawan
Article 12 B Clause (1)
“Every gratification given to
a civil servant or state apparatus is considered bribery, if it’s
related to his/her position and
if it contradicted his/her obligations or duties …..”
Based on the article mentioned above, gratification is
part of bribery. Bribery in everyday language is a gift from a
person whose intention is to get
the recipient to commit or not
commit something, while gratification carries a wider scope.
Gratification is defined as a gift
in general term. Article 12 B
stated that gratification is a gift
in a wider scope which includes
giving money, gifts, rebates,
commission, non-interest loan,
traveling tickets, accommodation, holiday trips, free medical
service, and other facilities that
were received either at home or
overseas and transmitted via
electronics means or non electronics means.
The definition has a wide
scope in that it raised public debates calling for a limit to the
action and form of gifts in concrete that can be categorized as
gratification and the perpetrators that could be processed by
the law.
Who can be classified as civil
servants?
Article 1 clause (2) of Law No.
31/1999 which has been revised
to Law No. 20/ 2001, covered:
• Employees working at: the Supreme Court, Constitutional
Court
• Employees working at Ministries /Departments & Non
Department Government Institutions
• Employees working at the Attorney General’s Office
• Employees working at Bank
Indonesia
• Leaders and employees working at the secretariats of the
People’s Consultative Assembly/House of Representatives/
Regional
Representatives
Council/Provincial Representatives /Districts
• Employees and universities
• Employees in commissions
or agencies that were set up
based on the law, presidential
decree or government decrees
• Leaders and employees at the
President’s Secretariat, Vice
President’s Secretariat, Cabinet Secretariat and Military
Secretariat
• Employees working at Stateowned Enterprises and Regional-owned Enterprises
• Employees working at Courts
• Military and Police officers
and civil employees working
in the military and police
• Leaders and employees working at regional administrations
There are several restrictions
that can differentiate on whether
a gift can be indicated as a bribery or gratification, which include:
If the gift was given based on
the recipient’s position. If the gift
was given based on a good personal relationship regardless of
each other’s position, then there
is no criminal element in the action.
If the gift was meant to get the
recipient to do something that
goes against his/her duties and/
or responsibilities. In this case,
a further study needs to be con-
ducted to establish whether or
not the action carried a conflict
of interest. A book titled “A Pocket Book to Understand Gratification” published by the Corruption Eradication Commission
defined conflict of interest as a
situation in which a state apparatus who has power and authority under the law has or is
suspected to have vested interest in the authority he/she carried that it affected his/her quality and performance.
Based on the explanation
above, it can be concluded that
an assessment on whether or
not a gift can be categorized as
an act of bribery or gratification
that can be legally processed lies
on the motive or in the perpetrators’ mental attitude. An action which was based on ill intention can be categorized as a
crime. Law enforcers will look at
not only the intention but also at
the value of the gift and determine whether or not it was appropriate. Another problem that
emerged to the surface is that
whether or not the nominal value
of the gift is appropriate, which is
The government has made
various efforts to solve the gratification problem. Various regulations have been issued but
they have yet to become effective
in preventing gratification practice by entrepreneurs to state apparatus. The main problem lies
in law enforcement. The regulations issued should have been
implemented but in reality there
were so many weak implementation of the law. This occurred
because the public didn’t experience any legal culture changes. Regulations which tend to be
harsh failed to change the people’s awareness. As a result, the
regulation loses its existence
when a lack of good monitoring system is absent. Therefore,
a change of legal culture/legal
awareness is absolutely necessary to improve law enforcement
in Indonesia. Education on anti
corruption must be taught early
to the young Indonesian generation so that they can have a anti
corruption attitude and mentality when they mature.
A6
September 2012
International
Indonesian Companies Booked
Contracts at Cebu Food Expo 2012
Indonesian pavilion at the Cebu Food Expo 2012 was able to book contracts
amounting to $280,248 from different buyers and local distributors.
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he presence of the Indonesian pavilion at
the Cebu Food Expo
2012 resulted in business contracts for
participating companies.
The pavilion was able to
book contracts amounting to
$280,248 from different buyers
and local distributors.
Through the exhibition, PT
Danora Agro Prima gained
$145,248 worth of agreements
and PT Maesindo Indonesia
$110,000. Impending contracts of
PT Dua Kelinci reached $20,000
while Asian Pulp & Paper (APP)
Philippines, Inc. took in $5,000
worth of projected deals.
Meanwhile, two other companies achieved sales through direct selling of their products during the expo, namely PT Sinar
Mas amounting to Php11,030
and PT Mayora Indah Tbk Php
20,000.
Indonesian companies that
took part in the expo attracted
promising buyers and local distributors. PT Danora Agro Prima, a company engaged in the
production of cocoa powder,
managed to capture the attention and interest of consumers.
Local cake manufacturers that
also took part in the trade exhibition would like to acquire cocoa products from Indonesia.
This is primarily because Indonesia’s cocoa-based products are
relatively cheaper and are of better quality. As for PT Dua Kelinci, initial business arrangements
were set for potential distributors
Indonesia’s
participation in the
Cebu Food Expo
2012 is aimed at
achieving various
objectives that
will further boost
bilateral trade
relations between
the Philippines and
Indonesia, focusing
in the food sector."
Vivianto Tampubolon
Indonesian Trade Attache in Manila
The Cebu Food Expo 2012 was organized by GlobalLink MP Events International Inc and was held on 19-21 July 2012 at the
Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino, Lahug, Cebu City.
in Cebu City and Davao City.
According to Indonesian Trade
Attaché in Manila Vivianto Tampubolon, Indonesia’s participation in the Cebu Food Expo 2012
is aimed at achieving various objectives that will further boost
bilateral trade relations between
the Philippines and Indonesia,
focusing in the food sector.
The Indonesian pavilion, one
of the major exhibitors in the
Cebu Food Expo 2012, was set
up by the Trade Office–Embas-
sy of the Republic of Indonesia in
Manila. Through the facilitation
of the Trade Attaché assigned to
Manila and with coordination by
the National Agency for Export
Development (NAFED) under the
Ministry of Trade, three Indonesian companies and three Indonesian companies based in the
Philippines joined the Indonesian Pavilion in this trade expo
under the concept “Trade with
Remarkable Indonesia”.
These companies were PT
Dua Kelinci (peanuts, flour-
based snacks, cereal products),
PT Maesindo Indonesia Ltd (food
service disposable products)
and PT Danora Agro Prima (cocoa and cocoa-based products).
On other hand, participating Indonesian companies having offices in the Philippines were PT
SMART Tbk. (Palm Cooking Oil);
PT Mayora Indah Tbk. (Coffee
mixes) and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Philippines Inc. (paperbased products).
The Cebu Food Expo 2012 was
organized by GlobalLink MP
Events International Inc and
was held on 19-21 July 2012
at the Waterfront Cebu City
Hotel and Casino, Lahug,
Cebu City. The expo, which
is under the branding of the
16th Manufacturing Technology Cebu, now on its sixteenth year, amalgamated new supplements to the
brand that include Agritech,
Cebu Food Expo, Cebu Travel Expo, Metal, Hardware
and Woodmach, Plastics
and Packaging, Print & Label and the T.O.P.S Show
Cebu, plus a special feature
entitled Furniture & Furnishing Festival.
Indonesia Took 3rd Place on
World Cosplay Summit 2012
The Indonesian team represented by Rizky Karismana and
Isaiah Marito took third place at
the World Cosplay Summit 2012
held in Japan, August 4.
Japan took the first place followed by Singapore at second
place. It was the first time for
Indonesia to participate in the
event.
Rizky Karismana and Isaiah
Marito are the champions of the
Indonesia Cosplay Grand Prix
(ICGP) at Jakarta Little Tokyo
Ennichisai Festival 2012 held at
Blok M, Jakarta last June.
As winners, they represent
Indonesia at the World Cosplay
Summit and, surprisingly, were
able to take 3rd Place in the
most prestigious event of Cosplay Worldwide. Rizky and Isaiah played as Ingram and Griffon from the Patlabor series.
They were competing with
other participants from 20 other
countries, among others Australia, China, USA, Russia, Singapore, Germany and others.
The World Cosplay Summit
was held first in 2003 with only
four participating countries.
Australian Writer Launches
Book for Indonesian Children
A young Australian writer has
realized a long-held dream with
the launch of his book of fantasy and adventure stories written
for Indonesian children, entitled
Petualangan Anak Indonesia or
The Indoventurers. The book is
written entirely in Bahasa Indonesia.
All three stories are set in Indonesia – Bali, Sumatra and Yogyakarta – and feature monsters,
magical golden eggs, mythical
birds, a witch, fairies, secret tunnels, ancient secrets and exploding volcanoes. But the heroes
of the stories are young Indonesian adventurers: Wayan, Mutia,
Nanda and Dani.
For the past two years, Mark
has been working closely with
renowned Indonesian illustrator
Bambang Shakuntala to bring
the stories to life, communicating via email and text messages as well as working together on
and off in Yogyakarta.
Mark has shared his tales of
adventure with students at SD
Santa Ursula in Jakarta.
“It is such a wonderful experience to read my stories in front of
these children for the first time
and to see their reactions. I hope
these stories will inspire children
everywhere to use their imaginations and to cherish Indonesia’s
myths and legends,” said Mark.
Nicholas Mark, from Sydney,
began studying Bahasa Indonesia in high school. He wrote the
first story in 2007 as a university
assignment for his first year Indonesian language class as part
of his arts/law degree at the University of Sydney.
Encouraged by his lecturer
and inspired by his time spent
living and travelling in Indonesia, Mark secured the interest
of an Indonesian publisher, Galangpress Groups, and wrote
two more stories.
Nicholas has created three
fantasy/adventure stories by
mixing elements of Indonesian
and Western mythology together with his personal experiences traveling and living in Indonesia.
Nicholas is also a co-coordinator of the NSW chapter of the
recently established Australia-Indonesia Youth Association
(AIYA), which aims to connect,
inform and inspire youth networks between Australia and Indonesia.
September 2012
A7
Education
Three Ministers Give Encouragement
To the Young Generation
at UPH Festival 19
Universitas
Pelita Harapan
(UPH) invited
three ministers
as distinguished
speakers at the
annual event of
welcoming new
students called UPH
Festival 19.
T
PHOTOS: UPH
hey are SOEs Dahlan Iskan, Minister
of Trade Gita Wirjawan, and Minister of Tourism and
Creative Economy
Mari Elka Pangestu. Also present at the seminar as speakers
were Chairman of DPD-RI (Senate) Irman Gusman and prominent brain surgeon Prof Eka Julianta Wahjoepramono.
In his speech, Gita Wirjawan
said that the future of Indonesia
is in the hands of the Justin Bieber generation.
“You are members of the ‘Justin Bieber’ generation who will
define the future of Indonesia,”
he said.
The minister predicted that in
2020 Indonesia's economy could
be in the world's top five. Gross
domestic product (GDP) per capita could reach $30,000, a significant increase from $3,500
last year.
To achieve the 2020 goal, Gita
said Indonesia should increase
added-value commodities with
variety of innovations. He is optimistic that one day Indonesia
will have innovators like Steve
Jobs, and perhaps they will
come coming from UPH.
Gita warned the young generation to stay hungry (of information) and that it’s okay to be foolish or think out of the ordinary.
He also said that education is
a factor that determines the fate
of the nation, because there will
be many challenges or risks that
must be overcome to really make
Indonesia better in the next few
years.
"The more educated we are,
the better we manage risks,”
Gita concluded.
The chairman of DPD-RI Irman Gusman also gave advice
to new students. He urged the
young generation to be ready to
develop the country to become a
better Indonesia, because there
are many pessimists who say
that Indonesia is categorized as
a failed country.
“Let’s make those critical voices as vitamins and this is the job
for all of you to develop our country in the future”, he said.
“I hope one day someone in
this room will become president
or minister, and the most important thing is don’t forget to serve
or dedicate ourselves to Indonesia”, he said at the end of his
speech.
Meanwhile, Mari Pangestu
said that the young generation
has huge opportunities to boost
the creative industry, since 30%
of the Indonesian people are under 29 years old and that they
are actors as well as consumers
of the creative industry market.
She said that the creativity process of a child needs to be
nurtured and supported as early as possible.
“We have to support the ideas
of young people though sometimes it sounds crazy and weird,”
said Mari.
She gave an example of distro
(distribution store) from Bandung, which produces T-shirts
Minister of Trade Gita Wirjawan
SOEs Minister Dahlan Iskan
There are more than
130 million people
in Indonesia who are
not poor. It is a source
of proud to us but at
the same time also
become a problem for
the government.”
Dahlan Iskan
SOEs Minister
with unique design and limited
edition of only about 50 pieces.
Initially, Distro was associated
with specific communities like
skateboard players. “It changed
simple T-shirts into something of
high-value creativity,” Mari explained.
Mari concluded, “The creative industry comes from ideas,
and we’ll never run out of them
as long as we have good education.”
On the same occasion, Dahlan Iskan stated that the biggest
fear of all parents is that their
children are not smart.
Indonesia is a developing
country with 130 million middle
class people.
“There are more than 130 million people in Indonesia who are
not poor. It is a source of proud to
us but at the same time also become a problem for the government,” said Dahlan.
“The characteristics of a middle class are desiring everything
instantly, spoiled, and outspoken. They become a problem
for the government because the
bureaucracy of the Indonesian
government is tied to rules that
make them work slow. Thus, the
government needs to spend more
money to fulfill the needs of middle class, i.e. better infrastructure, faster public services, etc.”
At the same time, Dahlan said
that Indonesia also has 30 million poor people, and poverty today is very different from the old
days.
In his speech, Gita Wirjawan said that the future of Indonesia is in the hands of the Justin Bieber generation. To achieve the
2020 goal, Gita said Indonesia should increase added-value commodities with variety of innovations. He is optimistic that one day
Indonesia will have innovators like Steve Jobs, and perhaps they will come coming from UPH.
"Poverty today is seeing luxury through television or other
media, so it contains elements of
injustice," he explained.
“These are our nation’s problems till the next five years. Yet,
if the government is able to solve
these problems, the economic
condition of Indonesia will improve. At least in the next five
years Indonesia’s GDP will be at
$9,000, which is a huge number. By that situation, no wonder parents are really afraid if
their children are stupid,” Dahlan concluded.
The seminar at the UPH Festival is always interesting since
it presents distinguished guest
speakers who are willing to
share their vision and ideas to
give encouragement to new students.
Mari said, “I always support
campus activities, because we
need to hear ideas from young
people as well as we need to
share our vision with them.”
Mari Pangestu said that the young generation has huge opportunities to boost the
creative industry, since 30% of the Indonesian people are under 29 years old and that
they are actors as well as consumers of the creative industry market.
The President Post
BUSINESS
SECTION B
September 2012
No. 36
PTDI to Supply 20 Planes to Merpati
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Otopart’s Profit Rises by 9.3%
Publicly traded automotive part maker PT Astra Otoparts Tbk (AUTO) reported a 9.3% increase on-year in net profit to Rp574.18 billion in
the first half of the year.
Company
president
director
Siswanto
Prawiroatmodjo attributed the increase in net
profit to a 16.8% rise in net income to Rp4.16 trillion.
Siswanto Prawiroatmodjo
By June the company had assets valued at
Rp7.92 trillion up from Rp6.96 trillion by the end
of last year, according to its financial statement issued today. The company has decided to increases its capital spending to Rp1.6 trillion to
support its growing performance this year from Rp1.5 trillion set earlier.
The subsidiary of the country`s largest automotive company PT Astra International will use the fund to finance production of new products
and expand its production capacity, Siswanto said.
State-owned aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI)
will supply as many as 20 CN-type planes, worth Rp6-7 million each, to
the state-run PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines (MNA).
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by PTDI president director Budi Santoso and PT Merpati president director Rudi Setyoputro, in the presence of State Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Dahlan
Iskan, at the BUMN office here on Thursday. “Four or five of the ordered
20 planes will be delivered this year, while the rest will be handed over
in the coming years,” Budi stated.
Speaking about the purchase of planes from PTDI, Rudi explained
that Merpati did not have to spend too much, because a funding company did most of the financing. Besides, he pointed out, the planes would
be hired by local governments.
“At least 10 districts in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua and East Nusa
Tenggara (NTT) have expressed interest to use Merpati`s planes,” Rudi
said, adding that the Sampit and Merauke district administrations had
already signed agreements to use the planes.
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Meanwhile, Rudi said the plane purchase deal was expected to “improve the operational capacity” of PT Merpati. With the addition of 20
planes, he noted, PT Merpati`s total aircraft count will reach 50.
“We hope that the 20 planes will help the company raise its total annual earnings by at least 20%,” Rudi said.
Appointed as the chief of PT Merpati in May 2012, Rudi did not provide details about his company`s earnings this year. “For sure, PT Merpati will no longer have a deficit next year. Merpati now suffers from a
deficit of about Rp3 billion per day,” he said, expressing hope that the
improvement of the company`s management can turn around its fortunes.
The plane purchase deal was expected to “improve the operational capacity” of PT
Merpati. With the addition of 20 planes, PT Merpati`s total aircraft count will reach 50.
Citilink Targets Four Million
Passengers in 2012
Citilink Indonesia has set a
target of four million passengers for this year with total ticket
sales reaching Rp2 trillion and
focusing on a low-cost service.
“Right now out of 66 million
airline passengers 60% are passengers of low-cost carriers making the chance to operate in the
segment is bright,” Citilink Indonesia CEO Arif Wibowo said on
the sidelines of the signing of a
cooperation agreement between
Citilink and Bank Mandiri here
on Tuesday.
Citilink is targeting to own 50 Airbus A320 planes by the end of 2015. The aircraft would be ordered through PT Garuda Indonesia as its principal company through a leasing scheme. Citilink Indonesia right now serves eight
routes namely Jakarta, Surabaya, Batam, Banjarmasin, Denpasar, Balikpapan, Medan and Ujungpandang.
Indonesian Companies Book
$343,000 Sales in Taipei
Indonesia in its initial transaction in Taipei Food Expo 2012 was able to book a
value of $343,967 for food products, chocolates, jelly, layer cakes, process chili,
ginger juice, tea and herbal medicines.
I
ndonesia was able to
book a sales turnout of
$343,000 in Taipei Food
Expo 2012, a biggest
food industry exposition in the Asian region,
a trade official said.
“Indonesia`s participation in
the exhibition is intended to give
a chance to Indonesian companies to promote their products
and expand their international markets and increase their
exports, particularly to Taiwan,” Pradnyawati, the director of product promotion of the
trade ministry, said here in press
statement on Sunday.
Indonesia in its initial transaction from June 27 to 30,
2012 was able to book a value
of $343,967 for food products,
chocolates, jelly, layer cakes,
process chili, ginger juice, tea
and herbal medicines.
According to the trade official,
the average international buyers showed their keen interest
to conclude a business-to-business cooperation with Indonesian partners.
Food Taipei 2012 is an annual which has been organized for
22 times by the Taiwan External
Trade Development by displaying various food products, catering equipment, hotel cooking
utensils and packing products.
The Taipei 2012 was attended by about 1,530 participants coming from 30 countries, among others, the United
States, Japan, South Korea, India, Greece, Guatemala, Macau
and Indonesia.
In the meantime, the Ministry
of Trade has presented a number
of Indonesian ethnic and traditional arts performances in Floriade Expo 2012 in the Netherlands. “Initially, Floriade expo,
which is held in Venlo city, only
exhibited horticultural products but now products it has displayed have now been diversified,” Dody Edward, the director
of export product development
and creative economy of the
Ministry of Trade, said in a press
statement here on Sunday.
Packed in a program called
“The Wonderful Rhythm of In-
The Taipei 2012
was attended
by about 1,530
participants
coming from 30
countries, among
others, the United
States, Japan,
South Korea,
India, Greece,
Guatemala, Macau
and Indonesia.
donesia” the Indonesian pavilion exhibited the richness of
Indonesian`s tropical flora, regional culture and other arts in
an effort to holistically promote
Indonesia from the aspects of its
tourism, trade and investment.
In its program called: “Wonderful Rhythm of Indonesia” on
July 12-15, 2012, the Indonesian
pavilion presented world class
jazz music performances collaborated with Indonesian traditional ones.
During the peak program on
July 14, 2012, Indonesia staged
a collaboration of jazz music
with Harry Anggoman`s band
and Indonesian traditional music such as `Sasando,` `Angklung` Gamelan of Bali. Singers were Trie Utami and Ivan
Nestorman. The most interesting
exhibits featured at the event are
traditional houses from different
provinces in Indonesia including
those from East Java, North Sulawesi, Bali, Aceh, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East
Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, Papua and West Papua.
Arif said although Citilink`s
focus is on low-cost service it
does not mean it neglects security and quality. He said the business unit of flag carrier Garuda
Indonesia would always refer to
Garuda with regard to service
and aircraft standards.
“Aircraft quality and security will remain our focus of attention. But facilities certainly will
not equal those of expensive carriers,” he said.
He admitted competition is increasing in the low-cost segment
but he was optimistic Citilink
would be able to meet its ticket sales target by among others
cooperating with Bank Mandiri.
“Mandiri has had a travel center
for booking tickets using Mandiri credit card, which will certainly help us increase our passengers in the future,” he said.
Arif said Citilink is targeting
to own 50 Airbus A320 planes by
the end of 2015. He said the aircraft would be ordered through
PT Garuda Indonesia as its principal company through a leasing
scheme.
“Right now we have had 15
commercial planes and in November we will add six more to
make the total to 21. Next year
we will add 10 more and by the
end of 2015 we are targeting to
have 50 planes and all of them
will be Airbus A320,” he said.
He said Citilink next month
will also use flight number to
QG to replace its present number GA which belongs to Garuda Indonesia.
Arif said Citilink Indonesia
right now serves eight routes
namely Jakarta, Surabaya,
Batam, Banjarmasin, Denpasar, Balikpapan, Medan and
Ujungpandang. “Ahead we will
add Bandung-Surabaya, Bandung-Bali,
Lombok-Surabaya
routes and later a flight service
to Sorong in Papua in the fourth
quarter,” he said.
After receiving an Air Operator Certificate on July 5, 2012
Citilink is allowed to serve flight
service in 70 domestic and 16 regional routes. Arif however said
that Citilink`s focus this year is
still on increasing the number of
regional routes.
Pertamina EP Posts Rp9.8t in Profit
PT Pertamina EP posted
a profit of Rp9.8 trillion in
the first semester of 2012 in
light of the increase in prices
as well as in oil and gas production which reached 131
thousand barrels per day,
according to the Pertamina
EP president director.
“The after-tax profit gain
in the first half of this year is
higher than the profit in the
same period in 2011 which
was Rp8.2 trillion,” Saymsu
Alam, the president director,
said here on Thursday.
The profit booked by PT
Pertamina EP, a subsidiary
of state oil and gas firm Pertamina, account for about
63% of its net profit target in
2012, which is set at Rp15.5
trillion. The increase in the
profit is boosted by the average increase of the Indonesian crude price (ICP).
In the first semester of this
year the average Indonesian
crude price reached $118.8 per
barrel. The company has set a
price target for 2012 at $90 per
barrel. The average price of its
gas was set at $4.56 per million metric British thermal units
(mmbtu), but in reality it rose to
$5.02 per mmbtu.
The increase in the oil and gas
has also boosted Pertamina EP`s
income to reach Rp25 trillion, or
an increase by 57% from the target at Rp43 trillion in the first semester of the year.
It was earlier reported that PT
Pertamina EP has succeeded in
significantly boosting its oil and
gas production in the first half
of the year compared with production in the same period last
year. Its oil production rose to
127,800 barrels from 123,400
barrels per day and its gas production increased to 1,050 million from 1,047.7 million cubic
feet per day.
Syamsu Alam said oil production began to rise in March this
year. He added its oil production
reached 128,100 barrels per day
(BOPD) in March and peaked at
131,500 BOPD in May, but still
fell short of the target of 135,000
BOPD set in the 2012 state budget. He said the company is set to
pump out more oil in the second
half of the year through optimization of existing oil wells , development of new oil fields and redevelopment of old wells.
Pertamina EP has succeeded
in slowing down natural decline
in productivity from normally
18% to 3% per year. In the first
six months of the year, Pertamina EP finished drilling of 53 development wells leaving 18 more
wells to be drilled, this year, he
said.
Syamsu said the company
posted an increase in profit after
tax to Rp9.8 trillion in the January-June period this year from
Rp8.2 trillion in the same period last year.
Mazda Indonesia Aims to Sell 12,000 Cars in 2012
Car maker PT Mazda Motor Indonesia (MMI) has targeted to sell 12 thousand
cars in the domestic market this year, its marketing
manager said.
Mazda sold a total of
4,836 cars in the first semester of 2012, with the variant
Mazda 2 contributing nearly
60% of the overall sales, Astrid Ariani said here on Friday. The other contributions
to the first-semester sales
came from variants BT-50 and
CX-5.
Astrid said Mazda recorded
the highest sales of 1,074 units
in June 2012 since it started operating in Indonesia. She said
Mazda would try to achieve the
2012 sales target through three
similar variants, namely Mazda
2, Mazda CX-5 and BT-50.
Asked to comment on Bank
Indonesia`s new rules requiring
minimum down payment of 30%
for mortgages and four-wheeled
vehicle loans, she said the regulation did not have an impact
on Mazda sales in June and
July 2012. “Until now the regulation that became effective on
June 15, 2012 has had no significant impact on Mazda sales,”
she said.
Yet the management of Mazda auto maker was still monitoring the extent to which the regulation had had an impact on
sales in the past few months, she
said.
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Business
Samsung to Double Sales This Year
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Samsung’s sales were pinned on cellphones, household
appliances, computer monitors and printers.
S
amsung Electronics
Indonesia has set the
target of its sales in
Indonesia this year at
$1.5 billion, or Rp 14.1
trillion, a 100% rise over last
year’s figure, a company executive said.
Samsung consumer electronics business director Iffan Suryanto said that sales were pinned
on cellphones, household appliances, computer monitors and
printers. “We expect household
appliances to contribute some
35-40% to the target, cellphones
55-60% and the rest from IT
products such as computer monitors and printers,” Iffan said.
He said the sales target constituted 1% of the total global sales
of Samsung and will be the second largest contributor in Southeast Asia. In 2011, Samsung Indonesia only contribute 0.5%
of the company’s $145.2 billion
global sales.
“We are raising our invest-
We expect household
appliances to contribute
some 35-40% to the
target, cellphones 5560% and the rest from
IT products such as
computer monitors and
printers.”
BEL) estimate that the total sales
for television sets, refrigerators,
washing machines, air conditioning units, and DVD and Audio players would reach Rp 29.8
trillion this year, an increase of
12% from last year. But the EMC
data does not include cellphones,
smartphones, computers and related equipment.
ment every year so that our sales
can improve,” Iffan said.
In the first five months of the
year, electronics sales were already at more than Rp 11 trillion, or about 22% up from the
same period last year. As from
January to May 2012 electronic
consumption could rise by more
than 20%, in the first semester
the performance would also rise
by 20%.
In 2011, 10 electronics giants
in Indonesia, including Samsung, vied for an Rp 83 trillion
rupiah market.
The Electronic Marketers Club
(EMC) and the Indonesian Electronic Industry Association (GA-
The company says that in the
second semester, sales were expected to be better, especially because of the traditional rise
in the sale of refrigerators and
washing machines ahead of Ramadan.
Iffan Suryanto
Samsung Consumer Electronics
Business Director
din in Kupang on Monday.
He said that the move was in
line with the company`s plan
to exploit business opportunities in the South Pacific, at places like Timor Leste and Darwin
in Northern Australia. Currently, the flight routes across South
East Asia are dominated by the
airlines from Malaysia. So far,
the local airlines in Indonesia
have got only a few customers
from this market.
Karsidin further explained
that the company has filed for
a permit to open international
routes from Kupang to Dili and
Darwin. “But in order to realize this plan, we need better coordination and preparation to
walk through different regulations between the countries,” he
claimed.
The company is also carefully calculating the cost, demand
purchasing power of the people
United Tractors, a distributor of heavy machinery and
a unit of Astra International, reported a 22% increase
in orders for construction vehicles in the first half, highlighting the country’s push
to develop much-needed infrastructure projects and
growing investment in the
sector.
The government last year
embarked on a plan for economic development called
the Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion
of Economic Development
(MP3EI), which includes the
construction of airports, seaports and toll roads.
The ambitious plan also
calls for the government to
invite private companies to
spend on infrastructure in
order to achieve the government’s goal to become a top
10 global economic powerhouse.
Spending on heavy equipment and machinery like
backhoes, tractors and
dump trucks is needed,
Samsung Electronics Indonesia has set the target of its sales in Indonesia this year
at $1.5 billion, or Rp 14.1 trillion, a 100% rise over last year’s figure
Transnusa Opens Kupang-Dili-Darwin Route
PT
TransNusa
Aviation
Mandiri, the only airline company based out of Kupang, East
Nusa Tenggara, plans to open
up international routes to Dili
in Timor Leste and Darwin in
Northern Australia.
“The
international
flight
routes will be realized during
the first and second quarters of
2013,” said Business Development Manager of PT TransNusa
Aviation Mandiri Budhy Karsi-
United Tractors Reports
22% Increase in Sales
among many things.
He added that the company
has focused on developing domestic routes in regional areas of Nusa Tenggara, Bali and
Makassar this year. The domestic routes will be feeder routes to
the international routes and will
cater to the tourist and business
destinations.
“We also need hard work, promotion and support from the
stakeholders of these areas so
as to promote them as tourist
and business destinations,” said
Budhy Karsidin.
Currently, Trans Air is operating three Fokker 50 aircrafts
out of Kupang, Bali and Lombok. This aviation fleet serves
more than 30 flights daily between Nusa Tenggara and Bali.
Moreover, TransNusa also serves
special flight to exclusive resorts
such as Wakatobi and Nihiwatu
every week.
which in turn benefits companies like United Tractors. Sales
of Komatsu vehicles — one of the
brands sold by United Tractors
— rose to 537 units in the first
half from 439 in the same period
a year earlier, according to the
company’s financial report.
Indonesia remains an attractive destination for foreign investors, with foreign direct investment hitting $11.3 billion in the
first half, up 30% from the same
January-June period in 2011,
according to data from the Investment Coordinating Board
(BKPM).
FDI last year rose 18% to
$18.6 billion, led by the transportation, storage and communication sectors.
Capital goods, which includes
machinery used to make other goods, accounted for 19% of
$47.4 billion of imports during
the first quarter, according to
central bank data.
The value of industrial transportation equipment increased
76% to $2.48 billion in the first
quarter from the same period
last year.
Unilever Indonesia Net
Income Rises to $247m
in First Semester
Unilever Indonesia, the
biggest producer of consumer products, said on Monday
that its net income rose to Rp
2.33 trillion ($247 million) in
the first half this year, up
13% from the same period
last year.
Revenue grew 17% to Rp
11.36 trillion in the first half
this year, the company said
in a filing to the Indonesia
Stock Exchange (IDX).
The company sells 27
brands of home and person-
al care products — which constituted 73% of sales in 2011 — and
16 brands of food and beverages, contributing the remainder
of sales.
Cost of goods sold rose by 19%,
putting Unilever’s gross margin
at 50.5% in the first half, lower than 51.5% in the same period last year. Shares in Unilever
closed unchanged at Rp 24,100
on the first week of the month.
Shares in companies in the consumer goods sector rose 0.3% in
the local market.
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INVESTMENT BRIEFS
State Firms Set to Take Over Inalum
State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said
on Thursday state firms have adequate funds to
take over PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) from Japan`s Nippon Asahan Aluminum.
“It is likely for us to take it over. We have a
large amount of funds. It could be state banks or
joint businesses to do so,” he said at his office.
He threw his weight behind the plan by state minDahlan Iskan
ing company PT Aneka Tambang Tbk and state
electricity company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to buy Inalum shares from the Japanese company.
Yet the takeover still depended on the auction of the central
government`s stake in the company through its investment arm Pusat
Investasi Pemerintah (PIP), he said. “If we are to take it over, we will look
at the terms and conditions of the auction first. In case of domestic support, we will go ahead,” he said.
In the 2012 state budget, the government has allocated Rp2 trillion for
PIP to acquire a 58.88% stake in the aluminum smelter in North Sumatra. The government currently holds a 41.12% stake in Inalum. Dahlan
said proceeds from the auction of Inalum shares would go to the state
which would acquire the Inalum stake in 2013.
“Several Japanese electronic, machinery and automotive companies
have expressed their desire to expand by setting up factories in Karawang, West Java. The government is seeking to acquire 5,000 hectares
of land with adequate infrastructure,” Industry Minister MS Hidayat said
at the opening of a batik exhibition here on Tuesday.
Nippon Asahan Aluminum must sell its entire stake in Inalum in October 2013 to comply with Indonesian rules. “After the shares have been
owned by the state they will be put to auction. It is likely priority will be
given to domestic companies or the shares will be sold through an open
auction. What is clear the government funds used to take over the Inalum shares will be returned after the auction,” he said.
Inalum produces 230,000 tons of aluminum a year. Nearly 40% of the
output is sold in the domestic market and 60% to the Japanese market.
He said thorough preparations must be made for the project as investors would not like to use Tanjung Priok port as an access point of incoming and outgoing goods.
“The government is still preparing the development infrastructure
such as roads, electricity and gas supply as well as telecommunications network. Apart from that the government also plans to build a port
in Karawang,” he said. With regard to electricity supply in the West Java
Industrial Zone he said it was not a problem and it had so far supported production process.
The minister said that “until now Java remains an investors` choice
but the government is also offering land outside Java and alluring them
to invest there with incentives.”
Govt Sets Aside 5,000ha For
Japanese Investors
Hidayat hoped with the Japanese investment that would come could
provide jobs for thousands of workers. “The development of an industrial zone will improve the welfare of the local people and provide more
job opportunities,” he said.
The ministry of industries is preparing 3,000 to 5,000 hectares of land
in Karawang, West Java, for the development of a Japanese industrial zone in Indonesia.
Envoy: RI Firms Ready to Build
Instant Noodle Factory in Russia
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The Russian offer
to build an instant
noodle firm to
the Indonesian
businesses
is proof of its
seriousness
towards making
Indonesia a
business partner.
port wheat directly to Indonesia
while Indonesia would increase
its crude palm oil export volumes to the country and make
an investment in the construction of a noodle factory.
“This is a big chance for Indonesian noodle firms because
Russia has a big population.
When I return to Indonesia, I will
meet noodle businessmen and
ask them to consider Russia as
a potential market,” the ambassador asserted.
ndonesian
Ambassador to Russia Djauhari
Oratmangun said that
Indonesia was ready to
invest and construct
an instant noodle factory in Russia because Russians
had taken a shine to this special
Asian food.
“The request to build a noodle factory in Russia was put forward by Russian Deputy Minister Dmitry Rogozin when we had
a meeting. It turns out that Russians like eating instant noodles,” the ambassador said here
on Saturday.
Russia is the world`s biggest
country whose areas stretch
from Eastern Europe to the
Northern Asian region, covering
an area of over 17 million sq km,
which is twice the size of China.
It has the seventh largest population after that of China, India,
the United States, Indonesia,
Brazil and Pakistan.
Russia was the largest part
of the former Soviet Union and
shared 50% of the former Soviet`s
population, assets and weapons.
Its population figures are about
half of Indonesia`s population of
237.6 million.
Djauhari said that Indonesia and Russia have agreed on a
trade cooperation deal at a meeting recently. Russia offered to ex-
“The market for instant noodle
is quite big here. We should take
this opportunity. If there is one
Indonesian businessman who is
I
interested in building an instant
noodle in Russia, he could contact the Indonesian embassy in
Moscow,” he said.
The embassy`s spokesman M
Aji Surya said that instant noodles were a popular food product
in Russia. “Many shops sell instant noodles,” he said.
Indonesian delegates to the
World Media Summit, held in the
World Trade Center, for example
found that supermarkets sell different trademarked instant noodles and were having good sales.
Many brands on sale were those
having the Rolton and Dosirak
trademarks. They did not found
any noodles of the Indonesian
trade mark. The price of a pack
of noodles is about 30 rubles or
about $1.
According to Aji Surya, the
Russian offer to build an instant
noodle firm to the Indonesian
businesses is proof of its seriousness towards making Indonesia a business partner. He said
that the volume of the two countries trade was set to increase to
$5 billion in 2014. In 2011, the
value of the two-way trade of the
two nations stood at $2.51 billion, which increased from $1.68
billion in 2010.
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Indonesia was ready to invest and construct an instant noodle factory in Russia because Russians had taken a shine to this special
Asian food.
PIP Invests Rp1.8t
in Geothermal Sector
Government investment agency Pusat Investasi Pemerintah
(PIP) has allocated around $192
million for investment in the geothermal sector in the second semester this year, PIP chief Soritaon Siregar said.
“A total of $132 million of the
funds will be for exploitation activities and $60 million for two
projects now still under exploration,” he said in Banten on Saturday.
He said the investment for geothermal projects is indeed huge
because the government is striving to increase electricity supply
from renewable sources. On the
other hand, he said, the geothermal investment is also risky as
only three out of ten explorations
could be continued to a exploitation stage.
In view of that it is difficult to
expect private parties to develop the business by themselves,
he said. “To reduce risks PIP is
now setting up a team of the best
consultants in the world hailing
from Japan, Norway, Australia
and the U.S.,” he said.
They will be assigned to appoint technical, legal and financial consultants and supervisors
to analyze the investment risks
seen from various fields.
Regarding mini hydro-power
projects (PLTMH) PIP meanwhile
has allocated around Rp649 bil-
lion distributed to 29 applicants
for investment loans, he said. “All
the applicants for the PLTMH
projects are private because the
value of the project is too small
to be carried out a state-owned
enterprise,” he said.
He said the PLTMH projects
are located in Sumatra, Java
and Sulawesi.
Besides geothermal and PLTMH projects PIP also plans in the
second semestet to purchase securities worth Rp1.5 trillion and
carry out a public-private partnership project worth Rp100 billion. Total funds provided for investment in the same year is
Rp13.280 trillion.
The request to build
a noodle factory in
Russia was put forward
by Russian Deputy
Minister Dmitry
Rogozin when we had
a meeting. It turns
out that Russians like
eating instant noodles.”
Djauhari Oratmangun
Indonesian Ambassador to Russia
PTPN X Allocates Rp496b
For Investment This Year
State-owned plantation
increase the productivity of
company PT Perkebunan
its sugar plantation and its
Nusantara (PTPN) X said it
sugar production, Subiyono
will set aside
said here on
Rp496
bilTuesday.
lion for investment this year
He
said
or more than
the
compaWith the investment, ny would revidoubling its
investment of
talize its sugthe company
Rp237 billion
factories to
would increase the ar
last year.
optimize their
productivity of its
PTPN
X
milling capacPresident Disugar plantation and ity. He said
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fund
would
c omp a ny`s
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be used for
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routine
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increased to
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37,135 TCD at present.
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Breakfast Dialogue
Tanri Abeng Focuses on Education
That Makes Leaders
The President Post/Reza Ganesha
Tanri Abeng, a successful entrepreneur and
former Cabinet minister from South Sulawesi,
said that the main problem Indonesia faces
now is the lack of executives with leadership
skills due to low quality education
A
s such, Tanri decided to establish the
Tanri Abeng University (TAU), which enables many to obtain
excellent education. With high
academic standards and a combination of both national and international curriculums, TAU
reinvented the education system
designed to provide guidance for
next generations in facing global
challenges.
"The purpose of this university is to revolutionize education. I
guarantee that every graduate is
ready to work as a professional,”
said Tanri.
At TAU, ones’ character, skills
and talents are groomed and developed to be the next CareerReady Professionals and future
leaders.
In a breakfast dialogue organized by The President Post,
Tanri stated that the most needed sector to be supported at this
time is education.
“Nowadays many people are
talking about link-and-match.
But if we do not raise the educational level of our country, we
will not be able to compete with
other countries. If our government can’t do it, then the public sector must step in," he concluded.
Tanri recently launched the
book entitled "No Regrets". Tanri
Nowadays many
people are talking
about link-and-match.
But if we do not raise
the educational level
of our country, we
will not be able to
compete with other
countries. If our
government can’t do
it, then the public
sector must step in."
who was born at Selayar Island, South Sulawesi, on March
7, 1942, has occupied top executive positions in government,
multinationals and national corporations for over three decades
in Indonesia.
Tanri holds a degree from
the University of Hasanuddin,
Makassar in 1966, a master degree in Business Administration
from the State University of New
York, Buffalo in 1968, and has
completed the Advanced Management Program at Claremont
Graduate School of Management
in California.
Within one day of finishing his
MBA studies, Tanri was hired as
a management trainee by Union
Carbide Corporation, a large
multinational company. At that
time, Union Carbide had decided to open up operations in Indonesia and was looking for wellqualified Indonesians to set up
manufacturing and marketing
operations in that country. Once
Tanri had completes his training in early 1969, he became the
obvious choice for the company to send to Indonesia as chief
accountant for Indonesia Union
Carbide.
In September 1971, at the tender age of 29, he was promoted
to finance director and corporate secretary, making him the
youngest executive in the company. After five years in that po-
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Tanri Abeng
A successful entrepreneur and
former Cabinet minister
sition, he was transferred to Singapore to direct Union Carbide’s
marketing operations for the
Middle East, Asia and Africa.
A successful career with
Union Carbide, both in Indone-
sia and in Singapore, led to Tanri
Abeng spending 12 years as CEO
at Heineken Indonesia and a further six at the helm of Bakrie &
Brothers, one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates.
His career also encompasses a wealth of experience at nonexecutive positions throughout
this period such as, eight 8 years
as Director of Asia Pacific Brewery, Singapore, three years as
Chairman of B.A.T. Indonesia,
five years as Director of BATA Indonesia, seven years as Chairman of PT MBI and three years
as Commissioner of the Jakarta
Stock Exchange.
Tanri has also made extensive contributions to governmental and non-governmental civic
organizations throughout his illustrious career including, eight
years as Chairman of Tourism
Promotion Board, five years as
a member of the National Education Advisory Board as well as
spending nine years as an elected member of the People’s Consultative Assembly (the MPR, the
country’s most powerful body).
In March 1998, Tanri was appointed by President Soeharto
as the country’s first Minister for
State Owned Enterprises, overseeing 159 state-owned corporations. He was given the challenge not only of restructuring
the State sectors but also of undertaking the huge task of creating a new Ministry from scratch.
At that time, the State-Owned
Enterprises were in dire straits
as a result of years of poor management, political interference
and the severe economic recession brought about by the collapse of the rupiah in 1997–
1998.
To turn these enterprises
around, Tanri launched a reform program that took its guiding principle the need to enhance
overall value. In line with this
principle, he oversaw the introduction of a variety of company
specific restructuring measures;
pursued a range of regulatory reforms; privatized five leading state-owned enterprises; and
formulated a detailed and coherent plan for future state owned
enterprise reform.
On the dialogue, Tanri shared
his personal experience as a
minister in the Soeharto era. He
said "I often met President Soeharto, and I learned from him
how to lead subordinates not by
scolding or by being emotional,
but rather with wisdom."
Under President Habibie,
Tanri was reappointed in the
same ministerial position.
Now, Tanri’s long aspiration is
“to give back to the nation” by establishing the Tanri Abeng University, which will start accepting the first batch of students on
September 2012.
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Profile
Toyota First Quarter Profit Rises 59.9%
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), a member of Toyota Group, announced financial results
for the first quarter ended June 30, 2012. Toyota Group was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in
1937 as a spinoff from his father’s company Toyota Industries to create automobiles.
TOYOTA
SALES
WORLDWIDE
North America
663,000
Japan
577,000
Asia
418,000
Central & South America, Oceania, & Africa
402,000
Europe
209,000
N
ow there are 51
bases in 26 different countries and
regions. In addition, there are
design and R&D
bases in nine locations overseas,
showing that from development
and design to production, as well
as sales and service, Toyota has
now achieved consistent globalization and localization.
On a consolidated basis, net
revenues for the first quarter totaled 5,501.5 billion yen, an increase of 59.9% compared to the
same period last fiscal year. Operating income increased from a
loss of 108.0 billion yen to 353.1
billion yen, while income before income taxes was 415.2 billion yen. Net income increased
from 1.1 billion yen to 290.3 billion yen.
Operating income increased
by 461.1 billion yen. Major factors contributing to the increase
include the positive effects from
marketing activities of 440.0 billion yen and cost reduction efforts of 70.0 billion yen, and
negative effects from currency
fluctuations of 40.0 billion yen.
Consolidated vehicle sales for
the first quarter totaled 2,269
thousand units, an increase
of 1,048 thousand units compared to the same period last fiscal year.
Toyota Motor Corporation
group companies are Toyota (including the Scion brand), Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors,
along with several “non-automo-
tive” companies
Commenting on the results,
TMC Senior Managing Officer
Takahiko Ijichi said: “In all regions, vehicle sales increased
significantly due to strong recovery of demand which had suffered last year from the lack of
supply caused by the Great East
Japan Earthquake. Despite the
Yen’s appreciation, operating income increased substantially thanks to increased vehicle
sales and cost reduction efforts
including our company-wide VA
activities.”
In Japan, vehicle sales totaled
577 thousand units, an increase
of 285 thousand units compared
to the same period last fiscal
year. The operating income from
Japanese operations increased
by 313.7 billion yen to 107.1 billion yen.
In North America, vehicle sales
totaled 663 thousand units, an
increase of 387 thousand units
compared to the same period last fiscal year. Operating
income increased by 88.6 billion yen to 117.6 billion yen, including 22.0 billion yen of valuation gains/losses on interest
rate swaps. Operating income,
excluding the impact of valuation gains/losses on interest rate
swaps, increased by 62.8 billion
yen to 95.6 billion yen.
In Europe, vehicle sales totaled
of 35 thousand units, while operating income increased by 10.9
billion yen to 3.4 billion yen.
In Asia, vehicle sales totaled
of 159 thousand units, while operating income increased by
41.4 billion yen to 101.5 billion
yen. In Indonesia, by the end of
first semester 2012, Toyota has
strengthen its position as market
leader in the national auto market with record sales of 202.519
units or 37.8% market share of
the total vehicle market in the
country.
In Central and South America, Oceania and Africa, vehicle sales totaled 402 thousand
units, an increase of 182 thousand units, while operating income increased by 6.1 billion yen
to 27.1 billion yen.
In the financial services segment, operating income decreased by 7.8 billion yen to
86.7 billion yen compared to the
same period last fiscal year, including 16.5 billion yen of valuation gains/losses on interest
rate swaps. Excluding valuation gains/losses, operating income decreased by 26.7 billion
yen to 70.1 billion yen. This was
mainly due to reduced reversal
of provisions for loan and residual losses in comparison to the
same period last year.
TMC estimates that consolidated vehicles sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013
will be 8.8 million units, an increase of 100 thousand units
from TMC’s forecasts announced
in May 2012, due to increased
sales volume such as in Japan
and North America.
TMC also forecasts consolidat-
ed net revenue of 22 trillion yen,
operating income of 1 trillion yen
and net income of 760.0 billion
yen for the fiscal year ending
March 31, 2013 which are same
as TMC’s forecasts announced
in May 2012, with the revision
of an exchange rate of 80 yen to
the U.S. dollar and 101 yen to the
euro.
Commenting on the forecasts
for FY2013, Ijichi said: “Although
we expect further marketing efforts and further cost reduction
efforts in collaboration with our
suppliers, we maintain our operating income forecast of 1 trillion
yen. This is because we assume
negative FOREX impact mainly
resulting from weakness of the
euro and a risk of deterioration
of market environments.”
Akio Toyoda Aims to Always Create Better Cars
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Akio Toyoda was born on
May 3, 1956 in Nagoya, Japan. He is the grandson of
the founder of Toyota, Kiichiro Toyota, and the eldest
son of Shoichiro Toyoda,
who steered the company to
prominence.
Yet in many ways Toyoda
is no different from any other Japanese CEO. He has
been a loyal, quietly diligent
servant of the company he
joined as a junior manager
in 1984.
As the CEO of one of the
largest automakers in the
world, Toyoda has a vision to always create better cars. In 2011, Toyoda in
his speech stated, “Creating ‘always better cars’ is our
chief focus as an automaker. And our success in earning smiles from our customers and from other people in
our host communities contributes to community vitality. As I have noted, it enables us to generate steady
employment and to engage
in mutually beneficial business with partners.”
“We also strive to contribute to communities through
our work on advanced infrastructure, such as intelligent transportation systems, smart grids and other
system solutions for mobility needs. Our goal in that
work is to support amenable
lifestyles for our friends and
neighbors in the communities that we serve,” Toyoda
added.
Creating ‘always better
cars’ is our chief focus
as an automaker.
And our success in
earning smiles from
our customers and
from other people in
our host communities
contributes to
community vitality.
As I have noted, it
enables us to generate
steady employment
and to engage in
mutually beneficial
business with
partners.”
Akio Toyoda
Toyota CEO
Under Toyoda’s leadership since 2009, Toyota is now the ninth largest company in the world by revenue. And as of July 2012, the company reported that it had manufactured its
200 millionth vehicle worldwide. Toyota has hit the 200 million sales mark in just 76 years and 11 months after producing its first vehicle, the Model G1 truck, in August 1935.
Under Toyoda’s leadership
since 2009, Toyota is now the
ninth largest company in the
world by revenue. And as of July
2012, the company reported that
it had manufactured its 200 millionth vehicle worldwide. Toyota has hit the 200 million sales
mark in just 76 years and 11
months after producing its first
vehicle, the Model G1 truck, in
August 1935.
The automaker reached 100
million in January of 1997, so
half of all the vehicles ever sold
by Toyota were made in the last
15 years or so.
“I have the most profound respect and gratitude for the efforts of all persons who were
involved in developing, manufacturing and marketing Toyota vehicles over the years,” TMC president Akio Toyoda said recently.
Toyoda graduated with a law
degree from Keio, a prestigious
private university, and gained a
master’s degree in business administration from Babson College in the U.S.
He is the first member of the
founding family to lead Japan’s
biggest carmaker since his uncle, Tatsuro, stepped down in
1995; Akio’s father, Shoichiro,
ran Toyota throughout most of
the 80s and into the early 90s.
Toyoda is the equivalent of
Henry Ford III in the U.S. – a
young man who works in the
family business, carrying the
legacy of generations by virtue
of his name and position. Akio
Toyoda is revered in Japan, as
Toyota Motor Corporation is
a major economic force in the
country.
Toyoda’s career has included
postings in every phase of automotive operations, including production, marketing and product
development, both in Japan and
internationally.
Outside Japan, he served as
an executive vice president and
board member at Toyota’s pro-
duction joint venture with
General Motors in California, New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI),
starting in April 1998.
In January 2000, he returned to Japan and was
named to TMC’s Board of Directors in June of that year.
In that capacity he took on
the creation and supervision
of gazoo.com, a website that
contains dozens of virtual
shops for consumer goods
and services and also provides information about new
and used vehicles. Also during this time, he supervised
domestic marketing operations, operations for the
Americas and production
management consulting.
In June 2001, Toyoda became the chief officer of the
Asia & China Operations
Center, and in June 2002,
he assumed the position of
managing director. In June
2003, Toyoda was made a senior managing director, and,
in January 2005, he became
chief officer of both the China Operations Group and
the Asia, Oceania & Middle
East Operations Group.
In June 2005, he became an executive vice president and a representative
director, in which capacity
he was responsible for IT &
ITS, quality, product management, purchasing, Japan and overseas sales, and
overseas operations. In June
2009, Toyoda became president of TMC.
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September 2012
Automotive
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Honda Launches
Brio in Indonesia
PT Honda Prospect Motor (HPM) has completed its line-up of hatchback
city car segment in the Indonesian automotive market by launching its new
product, the Honda Brio.
H
onda Brio comes
with a myriad of
advantages
and
is the leader in its
class.
Tomaki Uchida,
President Director of PT Honda
Prospect Motor, said Honda Brio
is offered to consumers who desire a competitive price for a car
dedicated to dynamic daily activities with good quality and luxurious features.
“Honda Brio is designed to be
the futuristic city car with a compact and sporty design, a fuel efficiency system and at affordable
prices,” he said at the launching
of Honda Brio in Jakarta.
According to him, Honda Brio
city car is designed to deliver
driving, safety assurance, safety
and comfort.
Honda Brio uses a SOHC iVTEC engine with a capacity of
1.3 liter with 4 cylinders. Brio’s
engine is capable of producing
100PS, the largest in its class.
Brio features Drive by Wire
(DBW) technology, Grande Logic
Control and Shift Hold Control.
Brio’s engine is combined with a
choice of manual transmission
and five-speed automatic (5AT).
The car has been launched in
Thailand and India with qualified safety features. Honda Brio
is equipped with dual SRS airbags, Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) and Electronic Brake
Honda Brio is designed
to be the futuristic city
car with a compact and
sporty design, a fuel
efficiency system and at
affordable prices.”
Tomaki Uchida
President Director of
PT Honda Prospect Motor
Force Distribution (EBD) and
pretensions with Seat Belt Load
Limiter, which serves to reduce
pressure on the seat belt when
the brakes are suddenly applied.
Honda Brio’s body frame
structure uses G-Force Control technology (G-Con) and
Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE). Brio has been
through a crash test facility in
the Real World Crash Test Honda in Tochigi, Japan.
As for theft safety features,
Honda Brio is equipped with an
Immobilizer and security alarm.
Honda Brio is designed to give
broad visibility from the cabin. Front pillar looks sleek, with
wide windows at front, side, and
rear. The design itself is able to
minimize the driver’s blind spot
while driving.
The position of steering
wheel is also adjustable with
tilt steering feature. The wheel
is equipped with Electric Power Steering System (EPS), which
makes the steering lighter at low
speeds but stable at high speeds.
Turning radius reaches 4.5 meters to make it easier to maneuver the car.
The design of Honda Brio is
not only based on survey results
regarding culture, road condition, and traffic but also on consumer’s tastes on automobiles
in Asia.
Jonfis Fandy, Marketing and
After Sales Service Director PT
Honda Prospect Motor, said
Honda Brio is capable of overcoming traffic jams, so it can
support the activities of the owner as well as give a higher performance.
“Honda Brio is suitable for
the dynamic needs of consumers so that we are targeting sales
of 6,000 units this year or 1,200
per month,” he said.
Honda Brio consists of two
types, Brio S and E, each of
which offers manual and automatic transmissions and sold at
Rp 149 million to Rp 170 million
per unit.
He said Honda Brio’s 1,300cc
powered
engine
runs
at
6,000rpm torque of 13.4rpm and
produces power up to 100hp.
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September 2012
B7
Technology
Microsoft Surface Ready to
Fight on Tablet Market
www.itproportal.com
It's been over two years since the iPad first arrived on the scene, during which time Apple has well
and truly dominated the growing tablet market. Finally, long-standing rival Microsoft is ready to try
its hand and has shown off the Microsoft Surface, a 10.6-inch Windows 8 tablet. The product was
announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a Los Angeles event on June 18, 2012.
T
www.limitlessmagazine.com
he Surface will be
available in two versions, Surface and
Surface Pro. Surface
will run the Windows RT operating
system, the tablet-centric version
of Microsoft's new operating system and use an ARM CPU. Surface Pro, running Windows 8 Pro
operating system will utilize an
"Ivy Bridge" Core i5 dual core (4
threads) chip, which is comparable to chips in current Windows
laptops and use an Intel CPU.
The display is a 10.6-inch, 16:9
widescreen HD Display (Surface), or Full HD Display (Surface Pro).
Microsoft has paid close attention to the details; this tablet is one of the few with a fullsized USB port. The Windows
RT version of Surface has USB
2.0, with USB 3.0 on the Windows 8 Professional version. The
Pro version can use USB 3.0 because the core logic chipset of Intel's Ivy Bridge chips support the
standard, according to a Microsoft spokesman.
Microsoft has included the
fewest ports it could get away
with; the bottom edge is filled
with the magnetic keyboard
connector, the top has the pow-
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and accelerometer sensors to
determine, based on position,
whether or not to accept input.
Both also include a multi-touch
touchpad.
Microsoft Surface with two magnetic covers, Type Cover and Touch Cover which snap onto the sides of the Surface like Apple's smart cover.
Unlike Apple's, these folding flaps flaunt functional keyboards.
er button and the sides have two
speakers, dual microphones, micro-SD, one USB port and Micro
HDMI (on the surface Pro that's
mini Display-Port), plus a magnetic power connector.
There are two magnetic covers, Type Cover and Touch Cover which snap onto the sides of
the Surface like Apple's smart
cover. Unlike Apple's, these folding flaps flaunt functional key-
boards.
Both, when folded up, serve
as protective covers that connect to the Surface via a magnetic strip. When opened, the
covers are keyboards. The Touch
Cover is 3 mm in thickness and
has a touch-sensitive keyboard.
It will be available in five vibrant
colors. The Type Cover is thicker
and includes a tactile keyboard.
The keyboards have a gyroscope
The design of the Surface for
Windows RT is understated. The
front is sleek black glass; precision bonded to the magnesium
alloy chassis, with only a Windows logo visible – the word Microsoft doesn't show up on the
case anywhere. The magnesium
alloy chassis is covered with a
soft coating that feels durable
and expensive.
There are also two cameras, front-facing and rear-facing. The rear-facing camera will
be angled at 22 degrees to allow
proper framing of another person while the "kickstand" is in
use. The "kickstand" is a .77 mm
thin built-in stand that spans
the width of the device and allows Surface to be propped up
at an angle in landscape orientation for a hands-free viewing
experience. Surface Pro has perimeter venting which allows air
to flow out the sides, and helps
avoid airflow being impeded by
hands holding the device.
The Surface is a tad heavier
than the iPad. While Apple's WiFi-only tablet weighs 652g, Mi-
Microsoft has paid close
attention to the details;
this tablet is one of the
few with a full-sized
USB port. The Windows
RT version of Surface
has USB 2.0, with USB
3.0 on the Windows 8
Professional version.
crosoft's tablet is a touch portlier
at 676g. It's ever-so-slightly thinner though at 9.3mm, compared
with the new iPad's 9.4mm.
Microsoft has said that the
Surface will be priced competitively. According to rumors (not
confirmed by Microsoft), as of
late July 2012, the most recent
estimates of pricing are $ 599 for
the lower end model and $ 999
for the Pro model. The Surface
will be available with general
availability of Windows 8, which
will launch on October 26, 2012.
The Surface Pro will be available
three months after that. The
Surface will initially be available
in Microsoft Stores and online.
Samsung Flexible Display Coming This Year
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Samsung has officially launched its
YOUM brand for
flexible
AMOLED
(active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) displays,
ahead
of the bendable panels
showing up
in commercial hardware
later this year.
Registered as
a trademark – complete with a bendy
YOUM logo – in midMarch, and detailed
on the new Samsung Mobile Display
site, YOUM promises to be thinner
and lighter than
traditional AMOLED and LCD-TFT
Samsung
YOUM AMOLED
technology
screens, as well as being “unbreakable.”
Samsung has previously
shown off foldable devices as well
as various flexible prototypes,
and has suggested that as well
as gadgets which literally bend, it
could also use the YOUM AMOLED technology to create wraparound displays that could cover two or more surfaces.
Samsung first announced
their plans to put flexible AMOLEDs into real products back in
June 2011. Then, in October, a
Samsung spokesman confirmed
that 2012 will be the year when
flexible displays finally move
out of beta. To produce the new
class of displays, the Koreans
are building an entire new plant,
which is expected to begin fabrication in the second quarter of
2012.
The flexible AMOLED display
technology looks like a glimpse
of the future, but for now, its
potential is limited by the other components that make up a
smartphone, such as batteries
and chips. So it’s not likely that
we will see a truly bendable device in the near future. But even
if you can’t roll it or bend it, a
flexible display has its advantages. Most importantly, smartphones fitted with flexible AMOLEDs will be incredibly resistant
to shock, almost unbreakable.
How’s that possible? Flexible
AMOLED replace the traditional glass substrate with a polyamide, a type of bendable plastic that doesn’t shatter.
Another advantage of flexible
substrates is the fact that you
can bend them, which makes
round displays easy to manufacture. When the technology becomes cheap enough for mass
production, we expect to see a
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flurry of wacky circular devices
incorporating OLED screens.
Samsung Investor Relations
VP Robert Yi said the following
in a quarterly earnings call, "The
flexible display we are looking
to introduce sometime in 2012,
hopefully the earlier part. The
application probably will start
from the handset side."
The technology will first be introduced in smartphones, and
later sized up or down for other
applications, including wearable
computers, tablets, or even TVs.
Meanwhile, rival smartphone
giant Nokia unveiled a basic prototype of the Nokia Kinectic - a
bendable smartphone - at Nokia
World.
Kinectic allowed users to bend
the screen to control functions
such as music and video. Nokia
refuses to say when its Kinectic
smartphones will be on sale.
Nokia Kinectic
Meanwhile, rival smartphone giant Nokia
unveiled a basic prototype of the Nokia
Kinectic - a bendable smartphone - at
Nokia World.
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September 2012
Golf
South Korea’s Park Inbee
Triumphs at Evian Masters
Sentul Highlands Golf Club
South Korea’s Park Inbee captured the most lucrative prize in
women’s golf as she won the Evian Masters Sunday.
P
PHOTOS: www.sentulhighlands.com
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Sentul Highlands Golf
Club was designed by world
renowned South African golf
professional Gary “The Black
Knight” Player. He has won
163 tournaments worldwide
and is one of only 5 men to
win The Grand Slam of Golf.
He transformed the mountainous region of Bogor into
a world class 18-hole golf
course.
Formerly known as Padang Golf Satelindo in 1997
and changed to Mentari
Golf Bukit Sentul in 2000,
Sentul Highlands is a challenging golf course that lies
in 85.4 hectares of land in
beautiful Sentul City, Bogor,
West Java.
ark picked up a check
for $431,000 for her
two-shot victory in the
joint LPGA and Ladies
European Tour event
in France.
She took advantage of holing a
string of birdie putts to total 17under 271 with long time leader
Stacy Lewis of the U.S. and Australian Karrie Webb tied for second.
Lewis, who had led from the
first day, finished with a flourish
with a birdie on the 18th for a 68
while Webb birdied the final two
holes in her 67.
Park’s win was for only the
second time as a professional,
adding to her victory as a 19year-old at the U.S. Open.
“This is so exciting,” she said.
“Today I was red hot with the
putter.”
China’s Feng Shanshan, who
shot a 66, South Korean amateur Kim HyoJoo (68), and the
2007 champion Natalie Gulbis
(68) of the U.S. tied for fourth
place on 14 under par.
“After yesterday, a lot of players were in contention so I knew
I had to shoot a good score out
there,” Park said.
“The greens were a lot quicker
than the last five years. I like the
fast greens, so I think that really
suited me as well.”
Park was born in Seoul. She
began playing golf at the age
of 10. After moving to the U.S.
States, she won nine events on
Park’s best year to date as a professional is in 2010. She had top-10 finishes in all four major tournaments, won twice on the LPGA
of Japan Tour and finished the season ranked 12th in the world rankings.
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the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) circuit and was a
five-time Rolex Junior All-American. She was a semifinalist at
the 2003 U.S. Women’s Amateur.
She won the 2002 U.S. Girls’
Junior and finished as runnerup in both 2003 and 2005.
While an amateur from 2004
through 2006, Park played in
the Kraft Nabisco Championship as a sponsor invite and in
the LPGA Takefuji Classic three
times, recording two top-10 fin-
ishes. In 2007, Park changed
the English spelling of her name
from In-Bee to Inbee.
Park’s best year to date as a
professional is in 2010. She had
top-10 finishes in all four major tournaments, won twice on
the LPGA of Japan Tour and finished the season ranked 12th in
the world rankings.
Park’s win was for only the
second time as a professional,
adding to her victory as a 19year-old at the U.S. Open.
Like all great player-designed courses around the
world, the best possible use
of the rolling terrain along
with landscapes and natural
features incorporate into a
series of holes that will challenge and delight players.
The greens at Sentul
Highlands Golf Club is built
to exacting U.S.G.A. specifications, providing superior
putting surfaces. But not to
worry, there are five tee boxes for each hole, so you can
play comfortably against the
course in any skill level.
Number twelve is a short
hole just 140 meters but artfully placed boulders in the
Overseas guest, too, will be
thrilled by the beauty of the
West Java countryside and
uniqueness of the course itself.
Gary “The Black Knight” Player.
fairway and the green is surrounded by bunkers to increase
the challenge while enhancing
the scenic beauty.
Sentul Highlands Golf Club
is a public course with a private
service. Hence it is a perfect option for your tournament or event
any day of the week.
The meticulously maintained
course at Sentul Highlands
Golf Club is a splendid place to
host local business associates.
The golf course is equipped
with other facilities, namely
Bale Gede, which may provide up to 200 seating capacity with a private service; VIP
Meeting Rooms, which can
provide 2 kinds of meeting
rooms where both are located with golf field terrace view,
fully furnished with locker room, dining area and TV
Plasma; an Outdoor Swimming Pool, a mini Olympicsize outdoor swimming pool
amongst a landscaped green
setting to make your leisure
time refreshing and relaxing.
The President Post
LIVING
SECTION C
September 2012
No. 36
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Ramadan’s
High Note
Ramadan is a holiday observed by fasting,
but when it’s time to eat, the meals can be feasts.
N
o food or drink is
allowed from dawn
to dusk during the
annual monthlong
Muslim period of
fasting, which began this year on the evening of
July 19. Because of the way the
Muslim lunar calendar is structured, Ramadan can take place
in different seasons; this year it
occurs in midsummer. So serving a variety of cool vegetable
spreads is perfect.
The two daily meals of Ramadan are iftar, the break-the-fast
meal served after sunset, and
suhoor, the early morning meal
that, according to the Sunna, a
Muslim sacred text, is important
to eat just before dawn.
In the Mideast, iftar often begins with water, juices and dates,
as well as salads and other appetizers. There might be one or
several entrees, such as lamb
stewed with wheat berries, lamb
kebabs with grilled vegetables or
roast chicken served with chickpea-studded rice pilaf, followed
by a rich dessert like baklava or
kunafeh, a buttery, syrup-sweetened kadaifi noodle pastry filled
with cheese.
In some households, suhoor
meals are composed of the same
kinds of foods as iftar; in others,
there will be egg dishes or other
foods that we think of as breakfast fare. To avoid exacerbating
thirst during the hours of fast-
ing, some cooks prepare suhoor
food with little or no salt.
The most memorable Ramadan meals we’ve had, whether at
Anadalou restaurant in Antakya
in southeast Turkey or at Olive
Tree restaurant in Anaheim’s
Little Arabia, began with a grand
array of savory spreads and dips.
To make these dips, cooks combine grilled, roasted, steamed or
raw vegetables — eggplant, cauliflower, pumpkin, purslane, cucumbers — with yogurt, the
tangy strained yogurt called labneh, tahini sauce or a mixture of
these.
Try lightening classic baba
ghanouj by adding yogurt to the
grilled eggplant and tahini salad, and spicing it up with roasted poblano chiles and a red chile
garlic relish. Blending yogurt
with roasted zucchini and mint
results in another cool, refreshing dip, a fitting complement to
muhammara, a spicy walnut
spread with hot and sweet red
peppers and a touch of pomegranate paste. For a light-textured, creamy spinach dip, combine briefly cooked spinach with
yogurt, sautéed onions, yellow
squash and grilled sweet peppers.
Unlike typical American dips,
these Middle Eastern salads are
usually served on plates or platters, not in deep bowls, and are
accompanied by fresh pita or other flatbreads, and not by chips or
raw vegetable dippers. Their tex-
ture is between that of a spread
and a dip. At serving time, many
cooks drizzle them with extra
virgin olive oil and sprinkle them
with fresh herbs and semi-hot
Aleppo pepper. When Ramadan
falls in the pomegranate season,
the fruit’s bright-red arils are a
favorite garnish. The traditional
way to eat the salads is to use a
small piece of flatbread to scoop
up the spread.
Although these appetizers are
fairly quick to prepare, they are
so delicious it would not be easy
to make them while fasting. Fortunately, they keep well in the refrigerator for at least a couple of
days.
Naturally, not everyone breaks
the fast with an elaborate meal.
In Jerusalem’s Old City, after
the signal sounded that it’s time
to eat, we saw shopkeepers sitting on stools in the doorways of
their stores eating stew with pita
bread. In Istanbul, we joined a
public iftar at which the government provided the meals. The
vegetarian dinners included lentil soup, stewed vegetables, rice
cooked with noodles, bread and
syrup-sweetened cakes.
When we visited Urfa, a conservative Turkish city near the
Syrian border where the hijab
is a dominant women’s fashion,
people told us that they enjoy
Ramadan because it is a blessed
month. We enjoy Ramadan too
— but because of the delicious
food.
In the Mideast, iftar often begins with water, juices and dates, as well as salads and other appetizers. There might be one or several entrees, such as lamb stewed with wheat
berries, lamb kebabs with grilled vegetables or roast chicken served with chickpea-studded rice pilaf, followed by a rich dessert like baklava or kunafeh, a buttery, syrupsweetened kadaifi noodle pastry filled with cheese.
High Style Meets High Performance
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Medals and reputations will
be won and lost at the London
Olympics – but forget the events,
just who will triumph in the
fashion stakes at the Games?
It is not just the kit athletes
will wear on the track or in the
pool which will make a splash,
it is also the official uniforms
which were worn for Friday’s
opening ceremony.
As a designer, striking the
right style chord can ensure
your kit will be immortalized
and cherished in the memories
of a nation. Get it wrong, and the
fashionista police will never let
you forget it.
And with styles under forensic
examination – from journalists
and paparazzi alike – Olympic
associations have left no seam
unturned to ensure their athletes scrub up well.
The global sportswear market
is estimated to be worth $120
billion, which illustrates just
how much is at stake for manufacturers to create the perfect
impression.
Adidas, who generated sales of
$16.3 million in 2011 and supply Team GB’s apparel, had their
eyes on upping their share of a
British sportswear market worth
$5.5 billion.
The German company has a
long-standing relationship with
Stella McCartney, the daughter
of music legend and former Beatle Paul McCartney, and she has
designed the uniforms for the
host Team GB squad.
“This project really means a
lot to me being a British designer
and working with Team GB at a
time like this, when we are hosting the Games in London,” McCartney told CNN.
“It really goes beyond anything
I’ve ever done before and it’s just
such an incredible honor.
“Being a designer, this is not
don 2012 bow in the cycling
road race on Saturday, said
on Twitter: “Just arrived at
the Olympics, got all me kit,
still think Stella was a bit
Lucy in the Sky when she
knocked this one up,” a reference to one of McCartney’s Dad’s classic records.
“In a good way, certainly
gonna (sic) stand out,” added Wiggins in a subsequent
tweet.
The confidence gained
from looking slick is something Willie Walters, fashion
course director at London’s
Central Saint Martins college of art and design, believes could give athletes the
edge when it comes to winning medals.
Adidas, who generated sales of $16.3 million in 2011 and supply Team GB’s apparel, had their eyes on upping their share of a British
sportswear market worth $5.5 billion. The German company has a long-standing relationship with Stella McCartney, the daughter of
music legend and former Beatle Paul McCartney, and she has designed the uniforms for the host Team GB squad.
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the type of opportunity that normally comes your way and I feel
really very lucky and privileged.
It’s been a really exciting challenge.”
McCartney is facing some toplevel competition from the likes
of French fashion house Hermes
as well as Prada, Armani and
Ralph Lauren, who have been
brought in by other Olympic associations to work on their kits
and uniforms.
“There were a million different
things to consider with this role,”
explained McCartney.
“Number one was trying to
identify what makes a country,
to show the pride of the nation
and translate that into clothing, while taking into account
the necessary technical achievement. “It also involves looking
at the best athletes in the world
Stella McCartney
also keen for each kit to safeguard the masculinity and femininity of competitors.
“Every athlete I talked to have
said they perform better when
they feel confident about how
they look, so I really tried to do
that,” said McCartney. “Another
thing is how to look masculine
and feminine with that and still
keep the dignity of the athlete.
“Also, how everything will
come across visually on television, when billions of people are
watching it, to try and make it
different. There are a million
things to think of, working with
a lot of guidelines.”
and how to do them proud and
to help enhance and support
their performance.”
While making sure the kit is
fit for purpose, McCartney was
McCartney’s efforts have received the backing of one of
Team GB’s leading lights, the nation’s first Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins – sort of.
Wiggins, who will make his Lon-
“It is important that leading athletes are given the
confidence of looking their
best at such an important
occasion when all the world
is observing them,” said
Walters.
“This should be provided
by the best designers available. A versatile designer can turn their talents to
a range of aesthetics within the parameters of sporting attire.”
Walters also detailed the
possible benefits for designers able to attach their
name to a successful Olympic squad, both in terms of
reputation and financially.
“The coverage of the Olympics brings the attention of
a much wider audience to
these designers work.
“(Designing sportswear)
cannot be easy and would
require a lot of research on
the part of the designer and
their team; I would think it
should be well remunerated.”
Do Job Titles Really Matter?
Recently I have been having a debate with one of my senior team members centered
around the value of job titles. My
colleague’s point of view, which
I respect, is that we should be
stringent with the titles we hand
out. My point of view is that titles don’t cost a business anything and they create psychological and business benefits for our
staff, so why not give them out
liberally. Being generous with titles not only makes employees
feel better, I believe, it can also
help with sales.
Today, TerraCycle has 110
front office employees in 22
countries with titles that range
from associate (i.e. “customer
service associate”) to the various
“C-suite” positions (i.e. chief executive officer and chief financial
officer). Some folks, I have found,
care more about titles than others. The title gives them a feeling
of importance; it suggests that
the company is acknowledging
their expertise and effort.
For example, Dr. Bill Gillum, retains the title of chief science officer at TerraCycle, even
though he now works part-time
and focuses on organics (such
as dirty diapers) vs. all science
at TerraCycle. But because Dr.
Bill has truly given himself to
the business for more than six
years, I believe we honor him
with his title.
Same thing with Tiffany
Threadgould, who has the title
of chief design junkie and is the
lead person in our upcycling department. Even though she is
paid less than some vice presidents she has an elevated title
because of her expertise in the
field and, frankly, because she
asked for it. While neither Bill
nor Tiffany have signing authority or true “C-level” rights, they
each have a C-level title. Recently, our general manager in Mexico asked to elevate the titles of
most of his staff as a “psychological raise” versus one that
cost the company actual cash.
As you might guess, I was in full
support, and he reported back
that the title boosts went over
quite well. You may consider this
a cheap ploy to avoid spending
money, and you might be right.
But if you can’t give cash, why
not give something else?
The other place that titles
clearly make a difference is in
sales. As an example, Jo Opot,
our global vice president of business development, told me that
before she had that title — mind
you, she does manage all of our
business development teams in
almost two dozen countries —
she had a harder time getting
people to return her calls and emails. She said that people respond more rapidly to e-mails
from people with more impressive titles.
I often ask our business development teams to draft e-mails in
my voice that I can send to prospective clients so as to accelerate the business development
process. For example, Christian Tucker, our business development manager, has some
potential clients that simply do
not respond to his e-mails, even
when he sends dozens of them.
About half of the time, he writes
the same e-mail for me to send
(as the C.E.O.), and we get a reply and schedule a meeting the
same day. Titles seem to matter,
so in lieu of giving him a lofty title, like vice president of U.S.
business development, we ask
him to leverage my e-mail address. And it works! Perhaps we
should name everyone C.E.O.
As for the negatives, my colleague argues, eloquently and
convincingly, that they can
be misleading. For example,
we have a general manager of
“Spanish-speaking Latin America” — but so far, we operate only
in Argentina. Does this make
people in the local market think
we are stretching too far? Does it
hurt our credibility?
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September 2012
Health
Surgery Unneeded for Most
Early-stage Prostate Cancer
www.newsgeneraldaily.blogspot.com
Most patients
diagnosed with earlystage prostate cancer
will live just as long if
they simply watch their
cancers rather than
have them surgically
removed, according
to the results of a
landmark clinical trial
that could upend the
medical approach to a
disease that affects 1
in 6 men.
T
he study, which focused on cancers still
confined to the prostate, should reassure
patients who want
to avoid distressing
side effects of surgery — such as
urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction — but still protect
their lives, cancer experts said. If
embraced by patients and doctors, the new information stands
to radically change prostate cancer management in the U.S.,
where the majority of early prostate cancers are treated aggressively with surgery or radiation
therapy.
The much-anticipated results
of the so-called PIVOT trial, reported in Thursday’s edition
of the New England Journal of
Medicine, did find that surgery
provided a slight benefit for patients with higher-risk early cancers. That group included men
whose blood levels of prostatespecific antigen, or PSA, were
above 10 nanograms per milliliter or who had larger tumors
with cells that were more abnormal in appearance.
And because the average age
of the 731 men who participated
in the trial was 67, with only 10%
under age 60, the implications
for younger men who have more
You have to be
psychologically stable
enough to say, ‘Look,
I’ll let that cancer stay in
me. If it starts to grow,
I’ll do something about
it. But if not, I’ll just go
on with my life.’ “
ity of these deaths were not from
prostate cancer, the authors noted. That finding underscores the
often-repeated saying among
urologists that more men die
with prostate cancer than of it.
potential years ahead of them
are less certain, experts noted.
But overall, the clinical trial — the largest of its kind and
the first in the era of widespread
PSA screening — should be welcome news for men diagnosed
with early prostate cancer, said
Dr. Mark S. Litwin, chair of urology at UCLA and a researcher at
the university’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
“The trial gives us results that
we have been waiting for in urology for quite some time,” said
Litwin, who was not involved in
the study. “It confirms many of
the recent reports that men with
prostate cancer, by and large,
can be safely managed with
close monitoring.”
The conclusions may well
overstate the benefit of surgery,
said study leader Dr. Timothy J.
Wilt, a specialist in disease prevention and health promotion
who works at the University of
Minnesota and the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care
System.
That’s because only about
half the men in the trial discovered their tumors through PSA
tests, which are more common
today than they were when men
joined the trial, starting in 1994.
In addition, doctors at the time
would wait for higher PSA levels before ordering biopsies. As
a consequence, men in the past
often had larger tumors by the
time their prostate cancers were
found.
“Men diagnosed today will
likely have an even better prognosis with observation,” Wilt
said.
An estimated 241,740 new
cases of prostate cancer will be
diagnosed in the U.S. this year,
and 28,170 men will die of it, according to the American Cancer
Society. It is the second-leading
cause of cancer death in men, after lung cancer.
Men in the trial were recruited
from 44 Department of Veterans
Affairs medical centers across
the U.S. and eight medical cen-
Lack of Exercise Kills Almost
As Many as Smoking: Study
People across the world are
falling so far short on exercise
that the problem has become a
global pandemic, causing nearly
a tenth of deaths worldwide and
killing roughly as many people
as smoking, researchers warned
this week as an alarming series
of studies was published in the
Lancet.
Eight out of 10 youngsters age
13 to 15 don’t get enough exercise, according to one of the Lancet studies released Tuesday,
and nearly a third of adults fall
short. The problem is even worse
for girls and women, who are less
active than boys and men, researchers found.
The results are fatal. Lack of
exercise is tied to worldwide killers such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer.
If just a quarter of inactive adults
got enough exercise, more than
1.3 million deaths could be prevented worldwide annually, researchers said. Half an hour of
brisk walking five times a week
would do the trick.
Despite its deadly consequences, lack of exercise doesn’t get
the same funding or attention as
other health problems, said Pedro Hallal, associate professor at
the Federal University of Pelotas
in Brazil and author of one of the
studies.
“It gets underfunded and undervalued,” Hallal said. “But it’s
huge everywhere in the world.”
In the widest study ever of the
scope of the problem, Hallal and
his fellow researchers found that
although wealthier countries are
more likely to fall short on physical activity, people in countries
across the globe are getting too
The Americas were
generally the least
active region, followed
by the area east of the
Mediterranean covering
countries such as Iraq,
Lebanon and Saudi
Arabia; countries in
Africa and Southeast
Asia were the most
active.
little exercise. The new research
covered 122 nations representing 89% of the world’s population.
The affluent Mediterranean
island nation of Malta, for instance, had the highest rate of
adult inactivity reported in the
study, with more than 7 of 10
adults failing to get enough exercise. Close behind was Swaziland, a developing country
between South Africa and Mozambique.
Other countries where at least
60% of the adult population fell
short on exercise include Serbia, Malaysia, Britain, Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia, Japan, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.
On the flip side, the most active
countries included Bangladesh
(where fewer than 5% of adults
are inactive), Mongolia and Mozambique.
The Americas were generally
the least active region, followed
by the area east of the Mediterranean covering countries such as
Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia;
countries in Africa and Southeast Asia were the most active.
People age 60 or older in Southeast Asia were more active, on
average, than teens and young
adults in the Americas, Europe,
the eastern Mediterranean and
the western Pacific.
The study didn’t delve into why
some countries reported much
higher levels of inactivity than
others, even in the same region.
But Hallal said poorer countries
are likely to fall behind in the
coming years if existing trends
continue. Exercise tied to jobs,
commuting or housework – more
commonly done by the poor – is
waning, while leisure exercise –
more often done by the rich – is
on the upswing.
The Lancet also published
several other studies delving into
the problem of physical inactivity, including one that examined
how countries might promote
more exercise. It highlighted one
program created in Colombia
that closes off city streets to cars
on Sunday mornings, opening
them to cyclists and runners.
Even improving street lighting can boost activity, studies
from the U.S. and Europe have
found.
Such measures are rare. Few
countries have put money behind plans to get their people
moving. Though nearly 3 out of
4 countries that are members of
the World Health Organization
have national plans to tackle inactivity, only 42% of those plans
are funded and operational, another Lancet study found.
Los Angeles Times
ters that earned special recognition from the National Cancer
Institute. Patients were randomly assigned either to receive surgery or to forego treatment and
have their cancers followed with
checkups every six months. In
the observation group, symptoms such as difficulty in urination or cancer that spread to
the bones were treated as they
arose.
About half of the men — who
were tracked for a median of 10
years — died during the course
of the study. But the vast major-
The likelihood of death from
any cause was the same for patients who had surgery and
those who didn’t. Surgery did
not affect mortality rates for any
subgroups based on race, age or
overall health status. Only 7.1%
of men in the study died from
prostate cancer or as a result of
surgery to treat it, in statistically
equal numbers in both groups.
“That’s a key point” that men
should absorb, said Dr. Durado
Brooks, director of prostate and
colorectal cancers for the American Cancer Society. “When most
men are told they have prostate
cancer, their immediate thought
is, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to die,’
and their immediate next step is,
‘Let’s do something about this.’ “
By then, Brooks said, “the idea of
an observation approach is lost.”
That is significant, because
the consequences of surgery are
not benign. Twenty-one percent
of men in the study experienced
complications such as wound infection in the 30 days after surgery, and one man died. After
two years, rates of urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction were roughly twice as high
in the surgery group compared
with the observation group.
Though all of the men had a
diagnosis of early prostate cancer with no spread to the bones,
there were differences in the seriousness of those cancers. Some
of the tumors were larger, some
men had higher PSA levels, and
some had higher so-called Gleason scores, numbers assigned
to cancers based on how abnormal the cells look under a microscope.
When higher-risk cancers
were assessed separately, the
authors detected a slight edge
with surgery, most clearly in
those men with PSA scores over
10 nanograms per milliliter of
blood. Among these patients,
death from any cause was 13%
lower in the surgery group and
death related to prostate cancer
was 7% lower compared with the
observation group. Men who had
surgery were also half as likely
to see their cancer spread to the
bones, which produces pain that
is hard to manage and raises the
risk of fractures.
For high-risk men, “surgery
clearly has been shown to be
beneficial over watchful waiting,”
said study coauthor Dr. William
Aronson, a urologist at the VA
Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
System.
Even so, experts noted, men
in this category who are older or who have significant other
health issues might consider observation or a more hands-on approach called active surveillance
— in which PSA tests and biopsies are taken periodically and
treatment is begun if the cancer
appears to be spreading — because they are still more likely to
die of something other than their
prostate cancer.
Another factor to consider is a
man’s personality and priorities,
said 73-year-old prostate cancer
survivor Jim Kiefert of Olympia,
Wash., a member of the prostate
cancer support organization Us
Too.
Some men in the support
group he leads — especially
younger men — will welcome the
study’s news because they greatly fear the side effects of surgery,
he said. But it will be a hard sell
to many others, he added.
“You have to be psychologically stable enough to say, ‘Look, I’ll
let that cancer stay in me. If it
starts to grow, I’ll do something
about it. But if not, I’ll just go on
with my life.’ “
The trial did not compare observation to radiation therapy,
another common treatment for
localized prostate cancer. But
scientists said the outcome is
unlikely to differ.
Los Angeles Times
September 2012
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Tourism
TOURISM UPDATES
Europe Leads Tourist Arrivals in Bali
Two European countries,
England
and
France, are the top two
suppliers of tourists to
Bali, followed by Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and
Russia.
“European
tourists
adore the Balinese way
European people particularly enjoyed the Ngaben of life,” Bali tourism ob(cremation) ritual in rural Bali.
server Wayan Sudana
said here Tuesday.
“Therefore, even though Europe is facing a major economic crisis, the
continent’s tourists keep coming to Bali to enjoy its art and culture,” he
added.
Based on Tourism Services reports, 250,412 Europeans visited Bali
from January through May, accounting for 22.13% of the 1,131,462 tourist arrivals in the island during the five-month period. There were 46,349
visitors from England in January-May 2012, up 12.51% from the same
period last year. Meanwhile, the number of French tourists increased
from 38,447 to 43,527.
Wayan noted that European people particularly enjoyed the Ngaben
(cremation) ritual in rural Bali. The ritual is never promoted as a tourism
product, but many foreign visitors, especially from Europe, enjoy witnessing the sacred ritual. The tourists like to take photographs of Balinese people conducting the funeral ceremony at the cremation sites.
Hence, the Hindu community in rural Bali attracts the highest number
of foreign tourists.
“Our target for the number of tourist arrivals to NTT in 2012 is 750,000,
and in 2013 it can increase to 1 million,” Abraham stated, referring to the
international marine event of Sail Komodo 2013.
Abraham noted that even before Komodo National Park was declared
as one of the “New7Wonders of Nature”, the number of tourists to the
province had increased significantly. He said some tourists even postponed their visit to Labuan Bajo, at the western tip of Flores Island, because all the hotels in the town were fully booked.
“During the high season, there are not enough hotels in Labuan Bajo
to accommodate the tourists, but we will try to overcome it in order to realise our dream of 1 million tourist visits in 2013,” Abraham explained.
One Million Tourists Expected
To Visit East Nusa Tenggara in 2013
He pointed out that the number of tourists visiting East Nusa Tenggara had risen significantly over the past six months. “Observing the trend
of increasing tourist visits to East Nusa Tenggara, from 148,673 visitors
in 2010 to 412,072 tourists in 2011, we are optimistic that the number will
continue to rise in 2012, especially after the announcement of Komodo
as one of the New7Wonders of Nature,” Abraham said.
The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) government has set itself a target to
attract one million tourists to the province in 2013, the chief of the local Tourism and Creative Economic Office, Abraham Klakik, said here
on Thursday.
Therefore, besides promoting Komodo island through Sail Komodo
2013, the local government would continue its efforts to develop the
natural, cultural, and historical tourism attractions in the province, he
added.
Visit Medan Year 2012 Features
Many Cultural Attractions
T
The dancer who controls the
head of the Barongsai must be
well trained in kung fu, because
the dance steps are similar to
kung fu movements. Performers
must have great strength and
endurance when using the larger dragons, because the massive
puppets can weigh up to several
hundred kilogrammes.
Besides the Barongsai Festival, Agus said, art and cultur-
The Barongsai Festival was among the many art and cultural performances organised
by the Medan city administration in a bid to support Visit Medan Year 2012. Barongsai
is a large dragon-like puppet measuring between four and six metres, which is manned
by three or four dancers.
With Visit Medan Year,
we are optimistic that
the target of 365,000
foreign tourists can be
reached at the end of
2012.”
Naruddin Dalimunthe
North Sumatra Provincial Culture
and Tourism Office Chief
al attractions from eight ethnic
groups in North Sumatra were
showcased along with the traditional dances of Malay, Batak, Mandailing, Simalungun,
and Nias.
The culture and tourism office of Medan also sponsored the
Bakcang festival, Melayu Agung
cultural festival, and the antique
vehicle show.
Agus explained that the various art and cultural performances were staged as part of
Visit Medan Year 2012 in order
to attract as many domestic and
foreign tourists as possible to the
capital of North Sumatra province.
In addition to increasing the
number of tourists, the Medan
city government also aimed at
maintaining and preserving the
local art and culture. “We are
optimistic that thousands of domestic and foreign tourists will
come agains to see the Barongsai Festival and other cultural
attractions,” Agus stated.
He said the Medan city government had set itself a target to
attract at least 200,000 tourists
in 2012.
Meanwhile, North Sumatra
Provincial Culture and Tourism Office Chief Naruddin Dalimunthe said the number of
foreign tourists visiting the
province this year could reach
365,000. According to Naruddin, the visit of foreign tourists to
the province in 2012 has shown
an upward trend. Therefore, he
expressed optimism that the target of 365,000 tourists could be
reached.
“With Visit Medan Year, we
are optimistic that the target of
365,000 foreign tourists can be
reached at the end of 2012,” Naruddin said.
In January 2012, 18,139 foreign tourists visited North Sumatra, while in February the
numbers dropped to 17,540.
Then, in March, there was a significant increase in the number
of tourists, with 22,123 visitors
to the province.
Meanwhile, Medan Culture
and Tourism Office Chief Busyr-
Borobudur Enjoys 100%
Increase of Visitors
Borobudur Temple enjoyed an
unprecedented increase in the
number of visitors during the
last school holiday, with numbers rising from 5,000 visitors to
10,000 tourists during the weekdays, said a tourism official here
on Monday.
“The number of visitors during
this school holiday doubled from
those on weekdays, although
the number fluctuated with
most (tourists) visiting on the
weekends,” claimed the Head of
Borobudur Tourism Park, Pujo
Suwarno.
He said most visitors during
the holiday season were organized by the schools, both in and
outside Java. “The influx is dominated by tourists from Central
Java, West Java and East Java.
The Philippines,
North Korea, the
Netherlands, and
France will participate
in the ToF.
www.medanbisnisdaily.com
Many art and cultural
attractions boosted the
government’s “Visit
Medan Year 2012”
initiative to attract as
many foreign tourists
as possible to Medan,
the gateway to other
tourism attractions in
North Sumatra.
he provincial capital city of Medan has
magnificent historical sites and many
interesting places for
tourists to visit. In a
bid to attract tourists and support Visit Medan Year 2012, the
Medan city administration organised many art and cultural
performances, including a Baronsai (lion dance) Festival at
Sera Guna stadium in Medan
on June 23-24.
Medan Culture and Tourism
Office spokesman Agus Suriono
said six countries took part in
the Barongsai Festival. “Malaysia, Singapore, China, Taiwan,
and Hong Kong took part,” he
stated in Medan on Friday.
According to Agus, the Barongsai Festival was among the
many art and cultural performances organised by the Medan city administration in a bid to
support Visit Medan Year 2012.
Barongsai is a large dragon-like
puppet measuring between four
and six metres, which is manned
by three or four dancers.
Four Countries to Take Part in
Tomohon Tournament of Flower
In the last five months,
Russian tourists were
among the five biggest
visitors to Borobudur.
Russians obviously
love to travel here and
this can be our chance
to promote Borobudur
Temple to their country.”
Pujo Suwarno
Head of Borobudur Tourism Park
But, there are also groups of students coming from Sumatra and
Sulawesi,” he added. Student
groups visited Borobudur from
Lampung and Bengkulu on the
Sumatra Island, while others
visited from Makassar on the
Sulawesi Island.
Pujo said that the Borobudur
Tourism Park organized an art
performance on the yard of the
temple during the holiday season. The number of visits by foreign tourists to Borobudur in
2012 also increased from those
in 2010, according to the official.
As per the records, foreign visitors from Netherlands, Japan,
Malaysia, France and Russia
frequented Borobudur the most.
“In the last five months, Russian tourists were among the five
biggest visitors to Borobudur.
Russians obviously love to travel
here and this can be our chance
to promote Borobudur Temple to
their country,” he remarked.
al Manan stated that the North
Sumatran government needed more than Rp17 billion from
the regional budget to fund Visit Medan Year 2012. He said the
funds would be allocated for the
promotion of tourism through
meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE).
Hajizi, the head of the North
Sumatra statistics office, noted that 169 U.S. tourists visited the province in January this
year, but their numbers fell to
135 in February. This, he added, resulted in 304 U.S. tourists
visiting North Sumatra in the
first two months of 2012, drop-
ping 59.68% from 754 during
the same period in the previous
year.
“The drop in the number of
U.S. tourist arrivals is apparently the result of the lingering economic crisis in the country,” Hajizi said in Medan recently.
Meanwhile, local tourism observer Henry Hutabarat noted
that Malaysian and European
visitors dominated tourist arrivals in North Sumatra. Therefore,
the drop in the number of U.S.
tourists should make local tourist operators to aggressively promote Visit Medan Year 2012.
At least four countries
have confirmed their participation in the Tournament of
Flower (ToF), which will be
held in Tomohon city, North
Sulawesi, August 8-12.
“The Philippines, North
Korea, the Netherlands, and
France will participate in the
ToF,” local Tourism and Creative Economic spokesman
Gerardus Mogi said here on
Friday.
He added that the four
countries, along with state
and regional enterprises
and some private parties,
would participate in a carnival float. “We are making the necessary preparations and arrangements
because the number of participants in the event is likely to increase,” Gerardus explained.
He said The Tournament
of Flower was launched recently by the Tourism and
Creative Economy Office in
Tomohon, adding that the
office had stepped up promotional activities since
then. “Besides, we are going to place billboards and
banners at strategic places
and corners of Tomohon city
to further raise awareness
about the event here,” Gerardus stated.
C4
September 2012
Culture
Dutch Visitors Praise Indonesian
Culture at Floriade 2012
www.kemlu.go.id
Indonesian pavilion at
Floriade 2012 features
unique exhibits
representing cultural
wealth from different
provinces in Indonesia.
gamelan which is performed involving various
instruments including a
violin-like `rebab`, a xylophone-like gambang, gongs
and drums with special
musical notes creating harmonious sounds when they
are played together.
Like Brigitte, Dutch visitor Hammy Meering who
once lived in Indonesia was
also interested in the Indonesian pavilion. Trying to
speak the Indonesian language, she said, “Ini bagus,
saya akan kembali (This is
good, I will return).”
A
ttracting
thousands of visitors everyday, Indonesia`s
pavilion with various cultural exhibits appears at
Floriade 2012 taking place from
April to October in Venlo, the
Netherlands, an event organizer
for the Indonesian pavilion said
recently.
Floriade 2012, or the World
Horticultural Expo, has been
held in the Netherlands roughly
every 10 years since 1960.
“Since 1992, it is developed
not only to feature flowers but
also cultural exhibits. Likewise,
it is used as a means to promote
trade and tourism,” said Mhd.
Redha Maha, Technical Operational Director of PT Vidya Citrapradhana that organizes the
participation of Indonesia at the
event.
Redha said the Indonesian pavilion at Floriade 2012 features
unique exhibits representing
cultural wealth from different
provinces in Indonesia. The Indonesian cultural exhibits have
even been the icon of the Floriade 2012 website because they
are very interesting to attract
visitors to the event which is held
in every ten years.
Indonesian pavilion exhibits traditional houses from different provinces in Indonesia including those from East Java, North Sulawesi,
Bali, Aceh, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, Papua and West Papua.
“That is great as it could attract 5,000-7,500 visitors everyday,” Redha said, adding that it
is the biggest number compared
to those of other participating
countries.
The most interesting exhibits featured at the event are traditional houses from different
provinces in Indonesia including
those from East Java, North Sulawesi, Bali, Aceh, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East
Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, Papua and West Papua.
The Indonesian pavilion also
presents a miniature of the biggest Buddhist temple in the
world, Borobudur, and giant
wooden wayangs or traditional Javanese shadow puppets, he
said. Among the visitors to the
Indonesian pavilion are very important persons, including prime
ministers, presidents, ministers
and ambassadors from different
countries like Germany, Luxemburg, Israel, Taiwan and North
Rhine (a state of Germany).
The Indonesian participation
in Floriade 2012 is supported
by three main sponsors, namely, state oil/gas company PT Pertamina, state bank BRI and
national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia without financial help
from the government event.
Indonesia has several times
won awards including a gold
medal in 2002 based on public
evaluation on presented various
programs like business forums
and attractive activities like cultural performances.
A Dutch lady, Brigitte, said
she was very interested in the
Indonesia pavilion which shows
various unique exhibits that reminded her of here experience
living in the archipelagic country several years ago.” “I like Indonesia with its culture and hospitable people,” said Brigitte who
would return to the Indonesian
pavilion with her family.
Brigitte said she liked the Javanese orchestra known as
Meanwhile, Libertina, an
Indonesian student who is
studying at TU Delf in the
Netherlands, said the Indonesian pavilion is very fascinating because various
attractive shows and cultural performance are displayed there. “Among the
cultural exhibits and shows
are traditional houses and
musical instruments. And
I think the most attractive one is a mock up of the
Borobudur temple,” said
Libertina who is now on the
first year taking up geo-engineering master program
at TU Delf.
Floriade 2012 is being
participated in by more
than 40 countries featuring their respective traditional houses. They also involve businesspeople who
are showcasing prime commodities as well as export
products including souvenirs.
RI Cultural Diversity
Has No Peers
Indonesia`s cultural diversity
remains unmatched in Southeast Asia and even in the world.
With more than 500 ethnic
groups, each with their own language and dialect, Indonesia
cannot be compared with any
other country when it comes to
cultural diversity.
“I have travelled to most
Southeast Asian countries but
nowhere is the cultural diversity as rich as what I have seen
in Indonesia,” German Cultural
Centre “Goethe-Institute” Director Franz Xaver Augustin said in
Jakarta on Friday.
Speaking at a press conference for a painting exhibition
on “Raden Saleh and the Beginning of Indonesian Modern
Painting”, Augustin said the Indonesian cultural diversity in
Southeast Asia was without any
parallel. But unluckily, he noted, many Indonesians failed to
respect their own cultural heritage from the Dutch colonial era.
“We have presented the beautiful works of great painter Raden
Saleh in this exhibition, because
they are not appreciated enough
by the people of Indonesia,” Augustin said.
Agreeing with Augustin, Indonesian literati Goenawan Muhammad stated the country`s
people indeed did not appreciate the art and culture of their
own nation. “Even our education system is unable to motivate
students to appreciate our music
and artwork,” he said.
According to Goenawan, the
government has not done enough
to address the problem, because
several museums and paintings
in Indonesia are not maintained
properly. “We know that Indonesian culture and artwork are beginning to have a good market
abroad and we have to maintain
them as an asset for tourism,” he
said.
Indonesia is made up of more
than 500 tribes, who speak
more than 700 ethnic languages, and are spread over more
than 17,000 islands, with the
five major islands being Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua.
Meanwhile, Arief Rachman,
a member of the Administrative Group of the International
Bureau of Education Council of
UNESCO, said Indonesia was a
museum of cultural diversity.
Therefore, President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono was invited by the UNESCO to Paris in
November 2011 to present his
views on the development and
preservation of the Indonesia’s
cultural diversity. “In UNESCO`s
view, Indonesia has succeeded in
maintaining its territorial integrity as well as its national unity,
although its population consists
of hundreds of different tribes
with their own cultures and languages,” Arief had said then.
At the UNESCO General Assembly in Paris, President Yudhoyono stated Indonesia preserved its cultural diversity for
the sake of national unity. In his
speech at the special session of
the 36th UNESCO General Conference in Paris, Yudhoyono said
a new global approach was needed to develop better understanding of cultural diversity and differences.
He called on all nations around
the world to join Indonesia in creating a new approach to promote
multiculturalism. “The previous
paradigm of `I and you` should
now be changed to `we`,” the Indonesian head of state said.
The Indonesian head of state
was chosen to deliver a keynote
speech because UNESCO considered the country to be a perfect example of how cultural
diversity could be used as a national strength. (Otniel Tamindael/Antara)
September 2012
C5
Pictorial Events
The President Post/Heros Barasakti
Groundbreaking of Java
Palace Hotel Cikarang
The Java Palace Hotel is located at Jababeka Industrial Estate II.
The groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 12 and attended
by representatives of several South Korean companies based in
the Jababeka Industrial area.
Heo Chul, Managing Director
of PT Busana Prima Global, said
the purpose of the Java Palace
Hotel is to meet the need of shelter for expats, mainly South Koreans who hold business trips in
the Jababeka industrial area.
Heo explained it will be a tenstorey hotel with 100 rooms
equipped with hot spot facility
in each room. The hotel stands
on 2.5 hectares of land and is
planned to be completed in November 2013.
Cikarang Dry Port Open House Event
Cikarang Dry Port (CDP) held an open house by inviting
its partners from Jababeka Industry area and other areas.
At the event, Harry MAC as Business Development Manager of CDP explained the existing facilities in Cikarang Dry
Port, which has a container storage that is supported by the
railway. In addition CDP will also be supported by a toll road
at KM 29 which has direct access to Jababeka and CDP.
Jakarta Ambassadors Golf Association Tournament
at Jababeka Golf & Country Club
The Jababeka Golf & Country Club (JGCC) held a golf tournament which was attended by
foreign ambassadors and embassies’ staff members. The tournament, which was held on July
15th at the JGCC Cikarang, aims
to foster close relations between
the ambassadors and their staff
members in Indonesia.
The participants were ambassadors, among others, Dato
Paduka Haji Mahmud bin Saidin
(Brunei Darussalam), Thanatif
Upatising (Thailand), Liu Jianchao (China), Eduardo Ruiz
(Chile), Javier Sanz de Urquiza
Augusto (Argentina), Jan Widow
(Czech Republic) and several embassies’ staff members.
C6
September 2012
Pictorial Events
Loyola Topping Off Ceremony
Loyola building was built in cooperation between ATMI Cikarang and
Holcim. Loyola building uses sustainable construction design with
environmental-friendly technologies and will be the first building in
Indonesia to use this technology.
The final stage of Loyola building development was marked by
a topping off ceremony, which
was held at ATMI Cikarang Campus, Jababeka Education Park.
Loyola building was built
in cooperation between ATMI
Cikarang and Holcim. Loyola
building uses sustainable construction design with environmental-friendly technologies and
will be the first building in Indonesia to use this technology.
This 4-storey building is designed to follow the motion of
the sun’s position and natural
air circulation in the Cikarang
area. According to Hendry, as
the project manager of Holcim,
the building uses passive energy
technologies. The passive system
is achieved by putting shades to
break the sun glare and has a
corridor system to regulate air
circulation, thereby making it
unnecessary to use low temperature of air conditioners, while
the active system is equipped
with radiant cooling as the cooling system and equipped with
photovoltaic panels and solar
thermal system. The roof was
deliberately designed slanted to
collect rainfall that can be used
for watering the garden and sanitation.
Loyola building is planned to
be completed in early 2013, and
will be used as ATMI Cikarang
campus.
“Chairul Tanjung Si Anak Singkong” Book Launching
The President Post/Rians Rivco
Chairul Tanjung, an Indonesian entrepreneur, launched his autobiography titled “Chairul Tanjung Si Anak Singkong”.
In general, the book is about the journey of Chairul Tanjung from
Gang Labu – a narrow alley in the hinterland of Jakarta where Chairul
was raised – to his present position as CEO of CT Corp. He was named
“Si Anak Singkong” by his childhood friends since he came from a
humble family. He had to sell popsicles to pay his school fee and sell
his mother’s precious ‘kain tenun’ to pay tuition at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia.
Mitsubishi Outlander Exhibition @ Plaza Senayan
The exhibition of Mitsubishi Outlander, the latest
SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) from Mitsubishi, was
held at Plaza Senayan from 13-15 July 2012.
Outlander Sport is a continuation of the
revitalization program of Mitsubishi Indonesia
passenger car through the latest SUV types
modeled on the Pajero and Evo as the world’s
legendary sport car.
September 2012
C7
Pictorial Events
“Life Stories” by Dino Patti Djalal
The ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the United States, Dino
Patti Djalal, launched a book entitled “Life Stories, Resep Sukses dan Etos
Hidup Diaspora Indonesia di Negeri Orang”.
This book is a collection of inspirational stories of Indonesian
Diaspora who have lived or are
still living in America.
A total of 28 Indonesian people
contributed their writings and
stories in the book, including
political and business, among
others, former late Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih,
Din Syamsuddin, Peter Gontha, Zulkifli Zaini, Emil Salim,
Hasan Wirajuda, Sandiaga Uno,
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Todung
Mulya Lubis, and others.
Political Rights of Disable People
American Cultural Center, @
america, held discussions with
Sinta Nuriyah Abdurahman
Wahid and Ida Budhiati on the
rights of disabled people in politics or in elections.
The political rights of persons
with disabilities in Indonesia
have not been fully protected.
Yet, the ‘45 Constitution said
that all citizens have equal
rights, including people with
disabilities, to take part in the
election. However, there are still
many shortcomings in the election especially related to the implementation of the rights for
disable.
EBTKE Conference and Exhibition 2012
From 18 July until 20 July
2012 at the JCC Senayan was
held EBTKE Conex 2012.
The show featured companies,
especially in the fields of energy,
which showed their facilities in
the development of new renewable energy potential and energy conservation (EBTKE) in Indonesia.
Some large companies like
Pertamina, Toshiba, Chevron,
and others participated in this
exhibition.
C8
September 2012
Pictorial Events
INACHEM 2012
Chemical Industry Exhibition 2012 or INACHEM Indonesia was held at the Jakarta Convention Center. At the
same time and place were also
held other exhibitions namely Indonesia Aluminums, International Transport and Logistics.
One of the exhibitors in International
Transportation
and Logistics is Cikarang Dry
Port (CDP), which opened a
booth to provide detailed information about the CDP.
CDP provides port and logistics facilities which integrates and functions as the
annex of Tanjung Priok Port.
CDP is the first and only one
custom services area in Indonesia. CDP offers one-stop
services for cargo handling
and logistic solutions for import export international and
domestic distribution.
IABC
Members
Gathering
On Wednesday evening, July
25, 2012, IABC (Indonesia Australia Business Chambers) was
gathering their members in an
event. The event was held at the
Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the
theme of the event was “Banking and Financial Services”.
IABC members Gathering is
supported by the ANZ Bank. In
addition, the event was also attended by representatives from
the Ministry of Commerce of
the Republic of Indonesia along
with some of the media.
Jakarta
Fair
2012
PRJ (Pekan Raya Jakarta) or
Jakarta Fair 2012 was successfully held from June 14 to July
15 at the JIExpo Kemayoran,
Jakarta. This annual event was
held time to mark the anniversary of Jakarta on June 22.
For about one month, PRJ
became a promotion event with
various activities and entertainment for Indonesians, especially Jakartans.
This year, Jakarta Fair 2,650
companies with 1,300 booths
took part, including several
SOEs from various provinces in
Indonesia.
Various excellent products
from domestic and small industries were exhibited at the largest exhibition event in Southeast Asia.

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