Ill-Fated Indonesian Soccer

Why do human species conquer the world despite the existence of other stronger, quicker and bigger animals? It’s because only human can organize themselves effectively so as to protect themselves from any threats and through the very cooperation to achieve highest culture on earth. That specific trait has made human species prevails. The natural law is the better organization lead to more power.

Indonesia’s Nuclear Power Plant: To Build or Not To Build

In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant calamity, Indonesians raise their concerns on the plan of first Indonesia’s nuclear power plant which is scheduled to be on stream in 2017. The government has been ready with the plan encompassing law, presidential decree, studies and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approval.

The World Does Need America

Sometimes we hate America, but sometimes we need its superpower to restore the situation. We sometimes see America as a good guy referring to Balkan war, but in another time as a bad guy seeing what has happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s like Goethe’s Faust: “Two souls, alas! Are lodg’d within my breast.”

Japan’s Armageddon

Do you remember Bruce Willis’ Armageddon? In that film an asteroid headed to Earth and unless it was blocked, the Earth would be crashed and unimaginable disaster would come about. The solution was to implant nuclear bomb in the asteroid so as to explode it in outer space. The chosen few doing the job is given to the oil-drilling master led by Bruce Willis. I am so moved when seeing the team set out as the mellow soundtrack of Leaving on the Jet Plan was played. The fate of the world was in a handful of people.

Adding Value to Mineral Commodities

Sometimes the government thinks too hard on how to spur economy, but seems to forget picking up the low hanging fruit. And one of the ripe fruits is: to add value to the mineral commodities.

All Roads Lead To Prosperity

The way of country’s development is often considered as one size fit all. America-led market liberalization and democratization idea overwhelms all over the world. The governments – especially in crisis – are pushed to embrace the liberal idea either voluntarily or forcedly. Indonesians experienced this dilemma back to 1998. However, seeing what has happened in China and Germany, that long-standing tenet of liberalism or democracy should have been revised.

Towards Knowledge-Based Economy

Developed nations invariably depend on knowledge-based economy. Whatever they do in business, they add unrelentingly the more value to goods and services. The secret has been revealed. To be rich, every nation needs only to mine ideas inside its citizens’ craniums, rather than to mine oil inside earth. Natural resource-starved lands could barely hamper Japan, Korea or Singapore coming out as world’s top-notch nations.