Telkomsel Launched Indolife MMS Services
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Dec 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Keeping up with the new era of telecommunication provider business transformation in Indonesia, Telkomsel launched its MMS service called Indolife. This new service allows its customers to get the news via their cell phone for free.
Indolife MMS enabled customers which include subscribers of Kartu HALO, simPATI, and Kartu As, can get lifestyle info via their mobile with MMS format by calling * 246 #. Subscribers will...
Blackberry Discount Sale Left 4 Faint And 1 Injured
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Nov 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The Police have charged a man from the Blackberry event organizer for the fiasco that causes 4 people to faint and 1 other suffers from broken bones in a stampede caused by the event. The event was set up by Research In Motion to introduce the new Blackberry Bold 9790 or as dubbed in Indonesia as Bellagio.
The Police say that they will also question Research In Motion as the event owner as well as the building security...
Jakarta Embraces Itself For Big Floods January 2012
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Nov 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Jakarta is predicted to have a major flood in January 2012. Although this flood will be nowhere near as big and subside faster than Bangkok flood, it will still create a disturbance in the big city already have its own traffic problems and bad drainage system.
Jakarta has experience major flooding in average once in every 5 years. The last two big floods were in 2002 and 2007. The Municipal needs to prepare an emergency...
ATM Card Migration Into Chip Is Going To Be Costly For Indonesian Banks
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Nov 03, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Indonesian banks will have to provide the funds for the card migration process from magnetic stripe to chip technology as mandated by the Indonesian Central Bank. Other than for the card replacement itself, the funds will also be required to replace or upgrade their ATM machine to enable the machine to accept the card with the new chip technology.
To get around the big funds required for this migration process, state...
Solar Energy Development in Indonesia
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Nov 01, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The application of renewable energy in Indonesia has been hurdled by two fundamental problems. Those problems are the lack of information about suitable and feasible technology and the current subsidies by the Government on fossil fuel which ironically meant to help people.
These subsidies have caused the Indonesian business and industries to miss the urgency and the potential offered by renewable energy, especially for...
Indonesian Government Demand Access To Blackberry Propriety Data
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Sep 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Kemkominfo) summoned representatives from the smartphone BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM). The Ministry says that the Canadian manufacturer has not complied with some requirements to keep it from being banned in Indonesia.
Out of four requirements, RIM has only complied with filtering pornographic content to prevent Blackberry user from accessing...
Intellectual Property Rights In Indonesia Is Very Low
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Sep 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Recognition of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Indonesia is still very low. This can be seen from the proliferation usage of pirated software in this country.
International Data Corporation study in 2010 which was published in May 2011 revealed that around 87 percent of software installed on personal computers throughout Indonesia is without proper license or pirated. If calculated, the commercial value of the software...
Indonesian Researchers Succeeded In Creating H5N1 Vaccine Seed
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Sep 04, 2011 | Leave a Comment
After conducting research for more than six months, a group of researchers from the Laboratory of Avian Influenza Research Center at Airlangga University, succeeded in creating bird flu vaccine seed for humans.
The Avian Influenza researcher from Airlangga University Dr. C.A. Nidom says that they start a study of H5N1 or bird flu after a confirmed bird flu patient died in Bogor in 2005.
At the cost of USD 200 thousand,...
Indonesia Geothermal Utilization Is Less Than 1 Percent
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Jul 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) recorded only 1 percent of Indonesian geothermal potential has been exploited.
The country geothermal potential which is estimated to be capable of producing around 28 Giga watts or around 40 percent of the world geothermal potential has been marred by unclear regulation which added to the fact that geothermal exploration is very expensive compare to other fuel source.
“Geothermal...
Social Media Impact On Indonesian Internet Users
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Jul 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Data obtained from Google Advertising Planner for May 2011 shows that the average Indonesian internet users access WordPress for 8 Minute, Blogspot for 10 minutes, and Twitter for 16 minutes every day.
The longest visiting time is Facebook (28 minutes) and Kaskus (30 minutes) an Indonesian forum. This shows the time taken by Indonesian internet user to socialize is much more than just reading.
This is mentioned by Nukman...
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