Archive for January, 2012
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How Twitter have made the worst, the best, and the false version of you. *** The car collision incident on Sunday (22/01) in Gambir, Central Jakarta was tragic. The driver, a 29-year old woman under the influence of drugs and alcohol, lost control of the car while speeding and subsequently killed nine pedestrians and critically [...]
Filed under: Social | 1 Comment
Tags: Jakarta, social media, Twitter
The irony of government spending
Reading Indonesian newspapers usually depresses me, but on Wednesday the two covers of Kompas and the Jakarta Post particularly made me lose my appetite. On the left is a picture on the renovation of the DPR Budgetary Body room, how the newly imported chair from Germany each costs Rp. 24 million. On the right, is [...]
Filed under: Politics, Social | 4 Comments
Tags: government spending, Indonesia
For a country that is constantly being discussed as the next global economic power, Indonesia surely spends little on infrastructure. From the Jakarta Post: In 2005, the government spent Rp 32.9 trillion on infrastructure development. This represented only 1.2 percent of the total gross domestic product that year. Six years later, the government spent Rp [...]
Filed under: Economy | 1 Comment
Tags: government spending, Indonesia, infrastructure, macroeconomics
Gridlock is already here
The 2014 traffic gridlock prediction in Jakarta? Here’s some obvious news: it may already happened. Two of my research focus at the moment is on acceleration & due process of land acquisition in Indonesia, with the case study of the Jakarta MRT Project as well as on the Jabodetabek Transport Authority. So yes, I’ve been [...]
Filed under: Economy, Social | 5 Comments
Tags: gridlock, Jakarta, transportation, urban planning
“Terus-Men” – Parking in Jakarta
There was this one time when my former boss entertained some foreign guests at a restaurant in Jakarta. As the company car that we rode was going to leave the venue, one guest made a small comment, “Who are these terus-men, where do they come from?” Puzzled, we asked what he meant by terus-men. “You [...]
Filed under: Economy, Social | 2 Comments
Tags: Jakarta, parking, transportation, urban planning
Happy New Year 2012!
What are the things to look forward to? Foreign Policy curated twenty elections that could change the world in 2012. Jakarta will also hold its gubernatorial elections this year, though I doubt any significant changes will be made after the elections.
Filed under: News | 3 Comments
Tags: 2012, blog, elections, Humor
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