I have been thinking about this for a while. I intend to make my blog to be dual-language, English and Bahasa Indonesia, especially since I have moved back to Jakarta. There are lots of materials in Bahasa, plus local readers who visit the site are increasing, so the move would be hopefully welcomed. This is…
Yes, my colleagues and I went to work today, despite the holiday status of Independence Day. Well, it wasn’t really a workday. We went in because of the independence day ceremony. This is due to our company status as a state-owned corporation. Other private houses would let their employees sleep the weekend off and reduce…
Earlier this month, I made an appointment with a financial planner from Quantum Magna Financial, a financial planning firm I got to know when its founder, Ligwina Hananto, came to Danareksa to promote Danareksa’s employee investment program. So, on that Friday evening, I went to its office and consulted with the planner regarding the three…
This poetry was given to me and the rest of IU’s Muslim Student Union executive board members at our last gathering in May 2004. The board members for the following year gave it to us as a token of appreciation for our services and words of encouragement for what we were going to go through…
Indeed, it wasn’t just me. The news confirmed that what I had experienced was indeed an earthquake. As I expected, the epicenter was relatively close at 110 km (about 70 miles) from Jakarta, precisely at 75 km (46 miles) northwest off the coast of Indramayu in West Java, at a depth of 286 km (178…
Wow, I was about to finish my reading when I suddenly felt my room quietly moving. It was 0:11 Jakarta time, if I remember correctly. It wasn’t long, probably under a minute, but it was longer than what I experienced in high school. This time I could feel it, and it was as if my…