Muhammad Yusuf | @myusuf298

Indonesia is knowned as fourth-largest country in the world by population. As common habits of post-colonial nation, urban population continue to grow in size. Indonesia's urban population has hit 120 million. Bappenas has predicted, the number continues to grow to 152 million in 2025, 67.5% of population. Jakarta, as capital of the country, has population of 11 million at night and jump to 14 million at noon. In 2013, Jakarta has 4.1 million cars and 11.9 million motorcycles. According to Jason Pomeroy, award-winning architech and urban planner, Jakarta has to adopt mixed-use developments, as a key to urban problem. From ICT's view, Jakarta has to adopt smart city concept to make comfortable unvironment for forthcoming citizen. How smart city could solved urban problem in Jakarta? Read my other articles. . . .

“Adik naik angkot ya?”, pinta saya kepada anak kedua. “Tunggu bapak aja”, jawabnya. Saya meminta lagi “nanti sekolahnya terlambat lho, bapak mau nambal ban, kempes tuh, kena paku”. Anak saya tetap terdiam, tanda dia tidak mau naik angkot. Akhirnya kuputuskan segera ke bengkel tamban ban, ganti dan antar anak ke sekolah. Sambil berharap semoga tidak terlalu lama, agar anak tidak terlambat. Tidak seberapa jauh mobil saya berjalan, saya temukan bengkel tamban ban. “Pak, tolong ganti bannya”, saya meminta. Tanpa sepatah kata pun, si Bengkel menuju roda mobil yang memang terlihat kempes. Sambil melepas roda, dia berkata agak ketus, “mana bannya”. Saya jawab “ini”, sambil menunjuk tempat roda di bagasi belakang. Dari intonasi bicaranya, saya merasa dia meminta saya yang angkat roda serep dan memberikan kepadanya. Tapi sengaja tidak saya lakukan, karena kondisi saya sedang bersih menuju kantor. Akhirnya si Bengkel mengambil roda serep dan memasang sebagai roda kiri belakang. Dia ...

Islamic State leader accepts allegiance of Boko Haram. Demikian headline harian The Jakarta Post, 3 Maret 2015. Pada tulisan tersebut, pemimpin ISIS menyeru kepada para calon mujahid yang tidak bisa masuk ke Syria dan Irak agar bergabung dengan Boko Haram di Afrika Barat. Pada halaman yang berbeda, koran tersebut juga memberitakan 16 warga Indonesia yang dinyatakan hilang di Turki, setelah berpisah dengan agen perjalanan yang diikutinya. Di hari yang sama, koran Republika memberitakan 11 warga Indonesia, yang terdiri dari satu lelaki dewasa, empat perempuan dan sisanya anaka-anak, ditahan petugas imigrasi Turki karena diduga ingin memasuki Syria sebagai calon mujahid. Menteri Luar Negeri RI melaporkan, sampai dengan saat ini sudah teridentifikasi 541 warga Indonesia yang bergabung dengan ISIS. Jumlah tersebut dikawatirkan akan terus naik. Karenanya Pemerintah menghimbau para pemuka agama untuk membantu melakukan sosialisasi bahaya ISIS. Fenomena kemunculan ISIS di Syria dan Irak se...

HTC, the most popular brand from Taiwan, is struggling to survive in this competitive market of smartphone. Basically, HTC has strong experience on smartphone, due to its history on the industry. Even compare to Samsung, HTC seems has more competences. But, as we know recently, experience can not ensure the competitiveness of brand. New brand can arise dramatically, just for a while, beating the old one. Namely Xiaomi, Oppo and along others. On the other side, some old big brand really struggle to maintain their market share such as Sony, Blackberry, HTC. Some others, even disappeared from the industry, namely Nokia, Erricson. Recently, HTC tried to maintain their market share by announed newest smartphone entitled One M9. This item is successor of previous item, One M8. HTC embeded this product with latest technology and features to attract buyers. Analyst predicted, price wuold be around $694. HTC has reached peak performance in 2011, with estimated 21 million of sales and N...

Anda dan perusahaan. Bagi perusahaan, sales person adalah ujung tombak untuk menembus pasar yang penuh persaingan Anda dan pelanggan. Saat anda berhasil membuat pelangga sebagai teman, maka anda akan mendapatkan bantuan yang dibutuhkan setiap saat Jual diri anda. setiap orang memiliki daya tarik, sales person yang pintar memanfaatkan daya tariknya untuk menarik pelanggan Puji pelanggan anda. Hanya memerlukan sedikit usaha untuk memuji pelanggan, tetapi menghasilkan sesuatu yang jauh lebih besar Sampaikan pesan dengan jelas. Sampaikan dan ulangi pesan anda sampai mendapat umpan balik yang benar, artinya pelangan sudah mengerti dengan baik Data pelanggan. Data membuat sales person tahu apa yang akan dilakukan. Catat data pelanggan dan simpan, tunggulah saatnya anda akan mendapat manfaat luar biasa Ucapkan terima kasih. Hanya membutuhkan beberapa detik untuk mengucapkan terima kasih, pelanggan akan mengingat anda selamanya Berikan nilai lebih. Informasi yang benar tidak menimbul...

The latest Telkom’s annual report mentions revenue of around Rp. 80 trillion, with profitability of Rp. 16 trillion. The figure apparently excellent. Therefore, we all, as Telkom’s employee are ecstatic. Despite the happiness, Witel are struggling to get positive growth of revenue. It’s too far to think about double digit, perhaps it’s only imagination. Over months, all Witel strive hard to get positive growth, eventhough just 1 until 5 percent. Even, some Witel suffers negative from month to month. Actually, excellent figure of the report was contributed by subsidiary, Telkomsel. Telkom itself was not so good. Eventhough, it still got profit along years. But basically, Witel, as a core part of Telkom has suffer for some years. The important question is : why Witel was struggling hard, just to get positive growth of revenue? The following are the answer, off course from my point of view. Background Witel suffer from negative growth of revenue, really hard to get po...

In next September, 193 world leader will meet at th UN Conference to list development target for the world to meet 2030. A McKinsey reports bringing developing country to the level of industrial world could add USD 400 billion annually to GDP and create more than 10 million jobs. World Bank estimates that a 10 percent increase in broadband will increase 1,4 percent in GDP in developing country. The study by Auriol and Fanfalone shows increasing broadband three-fold, from 21 to 60 percent in developing country would cost USD 1,3 trillion. As a result, every dolar spent in broadband in developing country will benefit at least USD17. Finally, the digitalization of developing country is as important as health, nutrition and education. Source: Bjorn Lomborg, Jakarta Post, Jan 18 2015.