Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, literally thousand of islands ranging from those among the world’s largest to tiny coral atolls marooned in a  sapphire sea.  With terrain including snow-capped mountains and lush rainforests arid savannah, swamps and irrigated rice fields, it’s hard to imagine a more appropriate national motto than Bhinneka Tunggal Ika – Unity in Diversity.

        Vegetables are grown throughout Indonesia, especially in islands with rich volcanic soil.   In this page, some of the vegetables in Indonesia will be introduced and you can learn the names and prononciations of the vegetables in Indonesian Language.  There are some short Indonesian passages about the selling of vegetables in the market and a few quizzes which will test your understanding of the vegetables.

           Besides this vegetable page, there are related links to the fruits and recipes pages where you can learn about the tropical fruits and explore the Indonesian Culinary and the cooking of the “typical” Indonesian meal.

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Description: Grasberg is a world-class mining complex in Indonesia, where Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold is engaged in exploration and development, mining and milling of ore containing copper, gold and silver.

Did You Know? PT Freeport Indonesia commenced mining operations at this site in 1972 and in 1988 discovered the Grasberg mine. Today, after significant production, the Grasberg mining district contains the world’s largest recoverable copper reserve and the largest gold reserve.

Location: Papua, Indonesia

Ownership: We own 90.64% of PT Freeport Indonesia, the principal operating subsidiary in Indonesia, including 9.36% owned through its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Indocopper Investama. The Government of Indonesia owns the remaining 9.36% of PT Freeport Indonesia. FCX operates under an agreement with the Government of Indonesia, which allows us to conduct exploration, mining and production activities in a 24,700-acre area (Block A). We also conduct exploration activities in an approximate 500,000-acre area (Block B). All of our proven and probable mineral reserves and current mining operations are located in Block A.

Mines, Processes and Facilities: Two mines are currently in operation: the Grasberg open pit and the Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) underground block cave.

Grasberg. We began open-pit mining of the Grasberg ore body in 1990. Open-pit operations are expected to continue through 2015, at which time the Grasberg underground mining operations are scheduled to begin. Production is currently at the 3,295- to 4,285-meter elevation level and totaled 49.0 million metric tons of ore in 2008 and 57.5 million metric tons of ore in 2007, which provided 67 percent of our 2008 mill feed and 75 percent of our 2007 mill feed. Remaining mill feed comes from our DOZ mine.

DOZ. The DOZ ore body lies vertically below the now depleted Intermediate Ore Zone. We began production from the DOZ ore body in 1989 using open stope mining methods, but we suspended production in 1991 in favor of production from the Grasberg deposit. Production resumed in September 2000 using the block-cave method. Production is at the 3,110-meter elevation level and totaled 23.1 million metric tons of ore in 2008 and 19.5 million metric tons in 2007.

During 2008, we completed over 16,000 meters of development drifting in support of the block-cave mining method for the DOZ mine. Further expansion of the DOZ operation to 80,000 metric tons of ore per day is under way with completion targeted by 2010. The success of the development of the DOZ mine, one of the world’s largest underground mines, provides confidence in the future development of PT Freeport Indonesia’s large-scale undeveloped underground ore bodies.

Development Projects. In addition to the Grasberg open pit, four other ore bodies (the Grasberg block cave, Big Gossan, Deep MLZ, and Kucing Liar) are located in Block A. We have several projects in progress in the Grasberg minerals district, including developing the large scale, high-grade underground ore bodies located beneath and adjacent to the Grasberg open pit. These ore bodies are included in our proven and probable recoverable reserves.

Ore Bodies: Our ore bodies are located within and around two main igneous intrusions, the Grasberg monzodiorite and the Ertsberg diorite. The host rocks of these ore bodies include both carbonate and clastic rocks that form the ridge crests and upper flanks of the Sudirman Range, and the igneous rocks of monzonitic to dioritic composition that intrude them. The igneous-hosted ore bodies (the Grasberg open pit and block cave, and the DOZ block cave) occur as vein stockworks and disseminations of copper sulphides, dominated by chalcopyrite and, to a much lesser extent, bornite. The sedimentary-rock hosted ore bodies occur as “magnetite-rich, calcium/magnesian skarn” replacements, whose location and orientation are strongly influenced by major faults and by the chemistry of the carbonate rocks along the margins of the intrusions.

The copper mineralization in these skarn deposits is also dominated by chalcopyrite, but higher bornite concentrations are common. Moreover, gold occurs in significant concentrations in all of the district’s ore bodies, though rarely visible to the naked eye. These gold concentrations usually occur as inclusions within the copper sulphide minerals, though, in some deposits, these concentrations can also be strongly associated with pyrite.

The Grasberg complex shown below illustrates the layout of the current 2.7 billion metric ton Grasberg/Ertsberg minerals district reserves. The western side of the district is dominated by the Grasberg, with its massive open pit (final design shown) and block cave mineable reserves, and the Kucing Liar and Big Gossan ore bodies. The eastern side of the district is dominated by the Ertsberg East ore bodies, the DOZ and the Deep MLZ. The underground production and exploration access to these ore bodies is shown.

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Investments in Indonesia is going crazy these days, everyone’s doing something with tech startups – sort of. These days, I’m seeing more fund being set up rather than high-quality startup launches, which proofs that everybody is trying to get a piece of the cake but the startups aren’t prepared yet, or the startups simply doesn’t need fund (less likely).

So, in this post I’m gonna give some overview info on the several tech investment funds being set up to invest in Indonesian startup companies, their background and portfolios. Hopefully this can give you guys a clear objective comparison on the investors currently active on looking and partnering with startups in a form of an incubator, business accelerator or venture capital.East Ventures

The first investment company focusing on tech startups in Indonesia, based in Singapore but managed by 3 Indonesians : Batara Eto (ex Mixi.jp), Chandra and Willson Cuaca (XSago). They also have partners in Japan, I would guess most of their fund came from Japanese investors. East Ventures usually invest in early stage startups, and we’ve heard that each investment ranging from US$200-500k in exchange for 15-30% equity.

Check out their website

Portfolio : Tokopedia, Urbanesia, Disdus (sold to Groupon), Penn-Olson, TeknoUp, Scraplr, AppsFoundry, PriceArea, Nightspade.

MerahPutih Inc,

An incubation fund set up by Djarum Group that gives incubation space, resources and capital for early-mid stage startups. MPI take at least 25% equity in exchange for capital, office space, human resources, marketing effort etc. They’re a part of a larger fund, GDP Ventures, will be explained below.

Check out their website

Portfolio : Dailysocial (yep, that’s us), Krazymarket, Infokost, Bolalob, Lintas.me.

GDP Ventures

A fund set up by Djarum Group focusing on larger and more mature tech, mobile and internet companies. They’re not interested in early stage startups, only profitable startups who need partner to scale the business. Currently, they only have one portfolio company and it’s probably one of the most high profile tech company in Indonesia, Kaskus.us.

InvestIdea

Nothing much about this fund except that they have funded 3 startups : Kartumuu, Bistip and WhuzzNet. You can check out their website InvestIdea.net.

Nusantara Ventures

A Singapore-based fund set up as a joint venture between several companies, with Indonesia’s Bakrie Group and IDG Ventures as the major stakeholder. Nusantara Ventures just launched this year although start operating since last year and focusing on later-stage companies with plans to scale globally.

Check out their website

Nusantara Incubation Fund

A private investment firm set up by media magnate and technologist Anindya Bakrie of Bakrie & Brothers in conjunction with Bakrie Groups’ BtelVision2.0 plan. It’s a US$10 million fund and they only invest in early stage startups with valuations between US$1-5 million. Fund managed by Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, Hasan Yahya and Erik Meijer, and so far they haven’t announced any portfolio.

Check out their website

Bandung Ventures

It’s pretty obvious that these guys are focusing on investing Bandung-based startups, and that’s because they claim to have deep links with Bandung Institute of Technology who has been producing high quality engineers. Bandung Ventures is managed by Jeff Paine from Battle Ventures and Colin Gan.

Bandung Ventures makes seed-stage investments in the ecosystem of creative innovation in and from Bandung. They want first money in, and the typical investment size is US$1,000-10,000. They also plan to invest as part of a syndicate of angels and early stage funds. So far, no portfolio.

Check out their website

Raja Capital

Founded in 2011, Raja Capital is one of the early Indonesian-based venture capital that specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in three main sectors: the Internet, mobile technology, software technology. Fund managed by Gunther M. Tampubolon, Ibnu Magda and Estu Larasati.

Check out their website

Ideosource

Founded by ex-Plasa.com CIO, Andi S Boediman and managed by several influential people in the tech and telco industry in Indonesia. They’re a US$5 million fund with focus on seed investment and incubation programs for all their companies. They launched end of June 2011 and currently have event management startup, eEvent, under their umbrella.

Check out their website

Founder Institute Jakarta

Yet to be launched October 2011 but with a big name like that, shouldn’t be hard for them to find portfolio companies.

Project Eden

Backed by Jardintech Capital, some of the most influential people in Indonesia’s digital marketing scene and startuplokal community. Project Eden claims to be Indonesia’s first tech startup accelerator, but they haven’t announced any deals just yet.

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Did I miss anything from the list or there’s more info you would like to add? Would love to hear back from you via comment.

sources : http://dailysocial.net/en/2011/06/29/a-simple-list-of-indonesian-tech-investors/

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Flores is the most fascinating and beautiful island. Long hidden in the shadows of its more famous neighbor Bali, the island of Flores is finally emerging as a unique destination of its own.  So, after visiting the lair of the Komodo dragons, take time to marvel at some of the wonders of Flores.  Here you can swim in pristine lakes and waterfalls, dive at one of the 50 spectacular dive sites, go kayaking among craggy coasts and mangrove shores, explore mysterious caves and be warmly welcomed by the island’s people in their rituals, dances and daily life.

Flores spells adventure, diving, eco-tours, and mountain climbing interspersed with visits to prehistoric heritage sites, traditional villages and cultural events.

Until recently, many tourists have only been familiar with Labuan Bajo, the small port located on the western-most tip of the island, and  the taking off point for a visit to the last natural habitat of the prehistoric Komodo dragons, the islands of Komodo, Rinca and Padar.

Situated in the province of East Nusatenggara, Flores is a long island that contains some of the world’s best kept secrets. A chain of volcanoes stretches the length of this 450 km long and narrow island, creating complicated V-shaped valleys and knife-edged ridges – terrain that was near impenetrable until recently and has separated the island into many distinct ethnic groups.

Administratively the island is divided into 8 districts; West Manggarai, Manggarai, East Manggarai, Nagekeo, Ngada, Ende, Sika and East Flores. Further east are the adjacent islands of Alor and Lembata.

Here you will find some of the world’s most exotic underwater life.  Diving in the pristine seas of Komodo, divers find themselves swimming along with huge manta rays, dolphins and dugongs, while whales can be seen passing Flores’s east coast during their migration period.

The island itself is surrounded by sparkling white beaches, where one beach even has pink sand.   Mt. Kelimutu, near the town of Maumere, has three different coloured lakes that can change colour from time to time.

Besides Komodo dragons, Flores has been in the world’s limelight with the discovery of the Flores hobbit, or homo floresiensis, a new hitherto unknown prehistoric human species, whose remains were found in the caves of Liang Bua.

This island is indeed ancient, having been untouched for centuries, once inhabited by prehistoric men and still living prehistoric animals, as well as containing remnants of a petrified forest.

At the easternmost tip of the island, Larantuka is famous for its Easter-week rituals that still continue the old Portuguese traditions brought here some 500 years ago. While at adjacent Lembata , islanders hunt whales manually, harpooning precariously from small boats.

To find the map on locations of attractions, what to see and do on Flores you can follow this  link :

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106709415425489516954.00047d2fce2108e0a5296&t=h&z=8

To view dramatic pictures of Komodo and Flores, click http://www.indonesia.travel/en/photoessay/details/post/9

sources : www.indonesia.travel

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” Hey Malaysia. Did u see? Congratulation Malaysia is from Indonesia for u. It’s proved that Indo still keep humble & have the great souls “

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Because of the three winning in a row a few days ago, Indonesia successfully rose up its rank from its previous place in FIFA.

Spain still leads the list of FIFA rankings as of November 2010. Meanwhile, Indonesia managed to climb six stories into the order of 135. Quoted by detiksport from FIFA’s official website on Wednesday (17/11/2010) night local time, there was no change in the state that ranks first until the ninth compared with last month’s ranking.

Spain is on the top with 1920 points. Behind La Furia Roja are the 2010 World Cup finalists the Netherlands with a value of 1718. Both comply with Brazil, Germany, Argentina, England, Uruguay, Portugal, and Croatia. Meanwhile, Italy moved up two rankings despite still could not penetrate the top 10. Azzurri is on the order of the 14th. While France slipped three strips to the order of 21.

Indonesia managed to improve its ranking compared to last month. From the FIFA ranking list this month, Indonesia was ranked 135 or rose six position rankings compared to October. Indonesia is in a better position than Singapore (138), Vietnam (139) or Malaysia (150) but still below Thailand (114).

sources : goodnewsfromindonesia.org

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Written by Kenji San (GNFI contributor in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Indonesians around Europe (or wherever they are) must be proud of their beloved homeland. The first Indonesian Park in Europe has been built, located at Parc Paradisio Conservation Park, Brugelette – Belgium.

Opening ceremony by Indonesia’s Cultural and Tourism Ministry and CEO of Parc Paradisio. Photo by detik.com.

Miniature of Prambanan and Borobudur Temple, exactly-same-sized Balinese castle Puri Agung Shanti Buwana, traditional houses of Indonesia’s Provinces, and all other Indonesia’s cultures, sculptures, some fossils, and traditional buildings placed on five hectares area. Still can’t imagine that? Just remember a famous park at Eastern Jakarta, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII). But the whole thing is now moved to Belgium (and of course not exactly the same with the original one).

Also, they imported 320 of containers of original stones from the most active volcano in the world, Merapi, to keep the mystic and magical environment there. And sooner, Sumatran Elephant originally from Sumatra will join this park.

Just imagine. The Europeans will first visit this park, then they fall in love, and visit the real Indonesia afterward. But don’t only imagine this sentence: Indonesians, are you ready for more European guests?

sources : goodnewsfromindonesia.org

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Ever wondered why some foreigners like to live in Indonesia? Well, maybe my list of TOP 10 best of living in Indonesia will explain. Here it goes.

1. Best coffee and tea in the world.

Cultivation of coffee trees in Indonesia started on Java in 17th century when Dutch first brought coffee to Batavia (city changed its name to Jakarta in 1942) and started export of the second oldest commercially produced coffee in the world – Java coffee. Ever since Indonesia has been one of the major exporters of coffee and today it is the world’s fourth largest exporter. Majority of production is a Robusta coffee, but production and export of high quality Arabica coffee is slowly increasing. If you happen to be in Indonesia you can enjoy freshly roasted high quality coffee from Java, Sumatra, Aceh and other areas of Indonesia.

A cup of cappuccino in Jakarta can be as good as in Rome or even better, thanks to the optimum freshness of coffee – it is premium quality up to one week after roasting. My favourite choice of locally produced coffee is Merdeka Coffee, Excelso is also great. I leave Starbucks to amateur coffee drinkers. I’ll just mention one thing that I’ve found fairly ridiculous about local cafés and especially Cup&Cino café at Plaza Semangi. They don’t have Indonesian coffee in their offer, so it is foreign franchise selling imported coffee in country which is 4th largest exporter of coffee in the word and a producer of high quality coffee! I consider this to be an example of awful lack of support for Indonesia and when I and my friends found out we decided to boycott the place.

How about tea than? Well, in Poland everyone knows Java tea and it is one of the most popular beverages (if not most popular) in Poland! There’s nothing better than enjoying a cup of original Java tea in the early morning mountain mist at the place from which this tea originates i.e. tea fields around Puncak. Incredible experience.

2. Hot weather all year long.

Yup, sun shines here all year long with only short periods of rain during rainy season. When I decided to emigrate I had to make a choice between Canada and Indonesia. Although Canada is a great place to live, I decided to move to Indonesia. I simply hate winter and perspective of not having to experience it each year was just too tempting. Since I also like when it rains this place is just perfect for me. There are number of advantages of living in a tropical country among which most interesting is: not having to buy new winter clothes each year; enjoying sun anytime during year; no winter depression and ability to wear simple cloths such as t-shirt all year! It’s just a fantastic place to live for everyone who likes hot weather.

3. AMAZING tourist attractions.

Indonesia has some of the most famous diving spots and beaches in the world. The most famous is certainly Bunaken National Park, considered as one of the top 10 dive spots in the world. However, with 25 percent of world’s coral reefs to be located in Indonesia, there is plenty of opportunities for divers. Beside Bunaken, other known diving areas are located around Lombok Island, channel between Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan, Sanighe Island (North Sulawesi), Biaro Island, Bangka Island etc.

Bali has some of the world’s most famous beaches such as Kuta or Jimbaran. I’ve personally found Siau (North Sulawesi) to be most impressive as it was my favourite spot among all my travels around Indonesia, yet unfortunately it is poorly developed and not ready for a mainstream tourism.

Indonesia has also quite a few UNESCO World Heritage sites, such as:

Komodo National Park,
Ujung Kulon National Park,
Borobudur Temple compound,
Prambanan Temple compound,
Sangiran Early Man Site,
Lorentz National Park,
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra.

Borobudur

Overall Indonesia has so many tourist attractions, from tropical beaches and diving spots, to rare rainforest flora and fauna, volcanoes, hot springs and simply whatever you could imagine.

I’ll jut conclude that tourists pay thousands of dollars to get here for short holidays. If you happen to live in Indonesia all these world’s famous tourist destinations are available only few hours of flight away. This also means you can get fancy holidays for ridiculously low amount of money and with no special preparations. Moreover, if you have KITAS (stay permit) you can get discounts in hotels and pay lower entrance fee at some tourists spots such as Borobudur or Bunaken.

4. Indonesian people.

The national motto of Indonesia “Bhinneka tunggal ika” (Unity in diversity) reflects the union of a various different cultures. The significant variety of cultures transfers also to the daily life and simply makes it more interesting. We can enjoy various arts from different parts of Indonesia, variety of food (more about this in next point), variety of local traditions, various religion ceremonies which overall is extremely interesting and definitely enriching our experience. Moreover, in general Indonesian people are so friendly and life enjoying that I think we could learn a lot from their positive nature. It’s hard to stay positive thinking even when everything around “sucks” and somehow locals can deal with this perfectly well. Beside, the specific culture that is so much different makes our lives here interesting every day, there’s always something new that surprises us.

Note: If you’re Caucasian you’ll have to get used to hearing “Hello mister!” and if you happen to visit place lest frequently visited by foreigners you may observe crowds of people surrounding you and asking various questions. The best advice for such situation is “smile and wave”. All this can be very surprising experience and it simply reflects interest of local people in foreigners. Nothing to worry about, just enjoy the unusual situation.

5. Great variety of food and fresh fruits.

Ever seen Durian, the infamous smelly king fruit loved by Indonesians?

Well, you can actually eat it here for most of the year. Beside if you live here you can enjoy, lots of other unique fruits that you won’t be able to find in supermarkets in Europe such as fresh Mango, Rambutan, Bali fruit, Snake fruit etc. Most of all you can enjoy all these tropical fruits daily and fresh. Beside this the variety of food available in Jakarta is also interesting. Padang food (spicy), Balinese food, Manadonese food, various of soto and satay from all over Indonesia or even such a strange delicates like snake satay (can eat it in Kota). Additionally, lots of unique Chinese food and very cheap seafood.

Well, there is one minus, that is a lack of immunity to local diseases which can quickly result in a very bad stomach-ache. However, the good news is that after two years or so you’ll get immune to nearly everything, including typhoid and God or “kaki lima” chef knows what strange food related diseases.

6. Exciting and challenging life.

Since Indonesia is so big and different, it is actually a big challenge to live here in so much different culture. However, this can just make our lives lot more interesting. Actually, there are so many events here daily that you’ll hardly get bored. If you’re news junkie you’ll here about number of disaster each month, from crashing planes, sinking ferries up to mudflows or floods, earthquakes and volcanoes, you name there’s everything here. It’s quite sad actually. It also frightens foreign tourists a lot – especially frequent bomb events – but for those of us who live here slowly get accustom to such extreme life and simply watch these extreme events on news and discuss it with friends. Are we crazy that we still stay here? Well, foreign news agencies like to exaggerate a lot and the truth is that Indonesia is lot safer than most think, actually often even safer than it could be in your own country. Just to let you know USA just released new travel warning for Indonesia and let me quote it:

Due to the possibility of terrorist attacks directed against American or other Western citizens and interests, the Department of State urges American citizens to evaluate carefully the risks of travel to Indonesia. The October 1, 2005, terrorist attacks in Bali in which suicide bombers killed 20 people and injured more three than 100 are a reminder that terrorists remain active in Indonesia. The possibility of future attacks in Bali, Jakarta, or other areas of Indonesia cannot be ruled out.

They are certainly right, but base on plain statistics lot less people died as a result of terrorism in Indonesia than in USA, so it really is not that bad as you might think. Life is unpredictable and we can’t be completely safe anywhere. Actually, I find myself feeling lot safer at night on the streets of Jakarta than in my small city in Poland. More than five years here and I had not a single incident of someone attacking me or trying to start a fight, while I had such experiences quite often in Poland.

7. Efficient government service.

Now, it’ll get bit controversial as opinion on this subject is highly diversified.

Few months here and you probably already know the term KKN (Korupsi-Kolusi-Nepostisme), which obviously means Corruption-Collusion-Nepotism. Indonesians often use it to describe all corruption related experience and it is definitely significant issue here and has a various forms. You’re probably surprised with my introduction as what corruption has to do with efficiency of government services? Well, I see several kinds of corruption and surprisingly, one small type of corruption activities of local government officials I actually consider as beneficial. Why? Well, if I lose some important document in Poland it could take a month to get a replacement, while In Indonesia if you are in rush you can simply pay bit more to the officer and get your documents done the very same day, as I’ve heard. If for some reasons you have a problem with documents, i.e. you can’t find Hungarian/Russian/Mandarin/Hindu/Hokien/Irish translator of some document that you need for certain govt procedure, you’ll only have to pay bit more and government official will suddenly read not only the previously mentioned languages, but also Dutch or even Farsi, Klingon and any language you can imagine – as I’ve heard. So, some are of something called here KKN is actually often helpful. In our countries red tape can be very annoying and time consuming while here we you still have other options and don’t have to look for certified Klingon translator in your area.

FYI I’m very surprised to read information about suppose lack of efficiency of local government in the process of establishing companies here in Indonesia as compared to neighbour countries. If you want to know how ridiculous it is just take a look at this document. According to some Law Firms Interview (World Bank 2005), number of days for setting up a business (PT. company) in Indonesia is about 151 days! In reality, it is very different from what was described in the report. For comparison The University of Indonesia’s Institute of Economic and Social Research (LPEM) shows that it takes only 80 days (57 working days) and all Indonesians know it can take even shorter, less than 14 days and if you are really in hurry can even have everything done in one week – with some additional budget and help of professional notary service. So, I personally think some government offices are functioning here fairly well and definitely not as bad as described in some strange reports.

Of course there are number of bad examples of corruption in Indonesia such as the one that results in loss of lives, state funds or results in unfair judgement. However, not everything considered as corruption is all bad and some kick-back just helps to go quicker through all the red tape. Unfortunately, with limited funds a service of a government official can be very slow, thus clearly there are two sides to this story and my point of view is obviously not objective.

8. Dynamic business environment.

Indonesia’s Economic growth accelerated to 5.1% in 2004 and reached 5.6% in 2005. The most interesting is that markets here are still relatively unexplored and full of opportunities. It’s definitely not easy to do business here due to number of factors, but if you happen to succeed the potential revenue is substantial. Considering the big population, consumer attitude, richness of natural resources I believe Indonesia has a huge potential and it is definitely good place to invest.

Furthermore, Indonesia has number of highly skilled people in various areas, such as IT, art, mining etc. My focus is mainly in IT and I already noticed how highly skilled Indonesian programmers can be. It’s interesting to know that Indonesia has one of the largest Java (programming language) user communities in the world and many local Java programmers able to work on most difficult Java projects – I believe the popularity of this language has lot to do with its name. Indonesia is actually a very good place for outsourcing and I myself managed to outsource several IT project to Indonesia with a successful result. I hope more will follow and one day Indonesia will be as popular destination for outsourcing as India. Unfortunately, Internet connection is still extremely expensive here, but I believe it will eventually get cheaper.

9. Domestic servants.

Ability to hire domestic servants is one of the significant advantages of life here. An average monthly salary of a maid who can take care of your house of apartment can be around 100$ a month – if they work at apartment usually they take care of few apartments to make more profit. Driver’s monthly salary can be in range of 150$ plus overtime. Clearly it does not cost much to hire domestic servants in Indonesia. Their work make our lives lot easier and save us lots of precious time.

Certainly, presence of domestic servants in Indonesia is caused by poverty and overall it is quite sad. Yet, I personally think that considering high unemployment in Indonesia giving job to people is always a good thing, even if it is job of gardener, house keeper or security guard. Just make sure you appreciate their work and help them in some ways i.e. by supporting education of their children.

10. Low cost of living.

Indonesia can be very cheap place to live and if you have foreign source of income you’ll definitely enjoy staying here. The gasoline is extremely cheap if compared to Europe (only around 0.5$ per litre). Food at restaurants is also lot cheaper than in neighbour countries and extremely cheap if compared to Europe or USA. Property is also not too expensive (yet) and if you’re a smoker you can buy very cheap cigarettes.

Clearly, Indonesia is a very interesting place to live and now you probably understand better why some foreigners decide to live in Indonesia. Simply speaking it is a beautiful, dynamic country with fantastic people. Definitely a great place to live, invest and enjoy your life.

(Source : http://expro.iaasindonesia.org/?p=116)

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