On that first visit I met up with a Melbourne friend who had just moved to the city for work three days earlier. As Jakarta newbies, Treen and I were fairly clueless about what to do. I recall we went looking for dinner and ended up walking past a bunch of local restaurants before se...
Retail Businesses:Brick-and-mortar stores also monitor churn rate. Let’s say you frequently visit a local grocery store, but suddenly stop because another store offers better prices or a more convenient location. The grocery store would see this as a loss in repeat business, which is a form...
The statue is relatively recent, dating back to 1996 when it was presented to East Timor as a gift from President Suharto of Indonesia, when East Timor was still ruled from Jakarta. If he had hoped this would dampen the enthusiasm for independence, he miscalculated. You can’t really walk ...
(31) , working conditions in Nike’s Serang plant, 50 miles west of Jakarta, were far from ideal. Hundreds of workers, some children, were crowded into vast sheds where they glued, stitched, pressed, and boxed 70 million pairs of (32) a year. Collusion between local management and govern...
Some of my earliest childhood memories include skyping with my father while he was in Jakarta and my mother, sister and I squeezed in front of her Computer in our Apartment in Berlin. The bad Audio and always pixelated Visuals do to wifi connection being our main Problem when trying to spen...
After graduating with an English Literature degree from a Saudi university, Tawfiq wanted to, in her words, "do something challenging that could have an impact on life. But women employment was limited. The only options were found in women-only environments such as teachers at girls-only school...
Do you remember when THAT happened? I totally forgot all about that”. I scrap for the smile on the face of a close friend who just opened the handmade mini-album I made for her baby shower. I scrap because it makes me and the people I love happy!! Thanks for reminding us all why...
Jakarta, Indonesia ~ A frog enjoys life in the slow lane as he hitches a ride on a snail Photograph: Andri Priyadi/Barcroft Media I Survived the October 7, 2015 Apocalypse At last, the data giants have been humbled Everyone who uses the internet should rejoice at the passing of this lega...
A Map!: we all know the function of a Map and how we all work towards ensuring that people don’t get lost among other things by improving the Map. There are many buildings of the world you visit and you get a Map because they are so big, you may ge...
In order to understand China’s foreign policy, one has to understand the foreign policy of the countries that have been China’s most serious competitors, first European powers in the XIX Century, then the US in the XX and XXI centuries. Both have...