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Not To Complain Again Facing Indonesia Condition

sigitp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:45:01 +0000

Hearing most of the news related with Indonesia top level conflict between KPK and Indonesia Police makes me think more deeply than before. It also makes me writes again in this blog after a few months mute .

Before all these facts about the conflict come up to the public, I have always complains for current Indonesia condition. Why we have always being left by another countries – education, sports, welfare, technology leadership, investments, etc. I was complaining because I thought we all Indonesians already working hard and smart each day, how come we are still left behind? What have we done wrong?

The same case also happens related with my workplace, the company has been here in Indonesia for more than 100 years,but still South East Asia regional headquarter and Global Services Competence office both located in Indonesia’s neighboring country, which the company presence only a quarter compared with Indonesia presence.

In reality,this is not the case. The most influential pillars in this country are not working as smart and as hard compared with other sector does. The main pillars: Polri, Kejaksaan, KPK, and the Government itself.

Corrupted. Broken.

So, let’s not complain a lot facing all this shameful situations. Let’s just ignore all the sad jokes about Indonesia you heard from your foreign colleague. Let’s not sad when comparing Cengkareng with KLIA, Changi and Suvarnabhumi.

We deserved it. We just 100% deserved it.

Just focus on what we can do better and better. Make ourselves proud on little proud-worth things we do for Indonesia. Let’s not giving up yet, not now, not in our generation.

Posting Test via Email

sigitp — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:48:07 +0000

Hello World!!!

LTE and WiMAX – Ericsson View

sigitp — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:16:41 +0000

Ericsson’s Chief Technology Officer, Håkan Eriksson, has been named one of the most influential people of 2008 by a leading industry publication, Telephony Online, for his steadfast advocacy of the LTE standard.

February 4, 2009

We asked Håkan Eriksson three questions about why he stood behind the 3GPP-based Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard when others were touting WiMAX technology, and why he believes LTE will lead the way to the 4G future.

Håkan Eriksson

What was the argument you presented that helped to deflate the hype surrounding WiMAX?
In this industry, there are 30 mobile handsets sold every second. It does not matter if you think one technology is better than another, because the sheer economy of scale becomes the most important factor. We already have more than 300 million subscriptions on the WCDMA/HSPA standard – a 3GPP track that will lead to LTE. Mobile WiMAX subscriptions are estimated to reach 100 million by 2013. By then, the estimate is that there will be 1.2 billion WCDMA/HSPA subscribers. That is more than a tenfold scale advantage. What’s more, WiMAX’s performance cannot match the capacity of HSPA. So not only is WiMAX’s market share smaller, it loses in terms of performance also.

How is LTE gaining momentum among carriers?
We see a constant momentum of LTE uptake. We have those carriers, like Verizon, operating on the CDMA track – making up 11 to 13 percent of the market – realizing this standardization track is simply too small to survive. Operators such as China Mobile that have been awarded a TD-SCDMA license are showing interest in upgrading to LTE. The third group that we see making the move to LTE includes traditional GSM/WCDMA/HSPA players such as TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, and Vodafone. While these players do not have an urgency to upgrade at the moment because they are currently operating on high-performing HSPA, they will still need new spectrum in the future to meet their capacity needs. They will then deploy LTE to be able to offer the even higher speeds of that standard. The fourth group, those operating on WiMAX, have also expressed a readiness to move to LTE in case WiMAX does not develop according to their plans, a scenario that looks more likely as time passes.

How long will it take for LTE to become the mainstream 4G standard?
The first generation of mobile telephony saw six different standards, and during the second generation there were four. Today, there are only two standards, HSPA and CDMA. In the future, there will be one mainstream standard – LTE – delivering a ‘killer experience’ with coverage and speed that will be available anywhere in the world. But we have to remember that every generation so far has taken 10 years to evolve. We have already learned a lot when it comes to HSPA, and we cannot skip this generation just because LTE seems to be right around the corner.

Packet Core Intro

sigitp — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:33:42 +0000

Hmm.. long time no write

Try to post this one at least

Indonesia – why there is no recession in the world’s leading Muslim economy

sigitp — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:29:36 +0000

Indonesia – why there is no recession in the world’s leading Muslim economy

Report by Terry Lacey

Following the election of US President-elect Barack Obama there is likely to be a slow recovery in confidence in the United States financial and banking system. A recession is unavoidable in the US and EU, but with only a downturn in developing countries. This crisis of confidence in the Western banking and financial system comes during the dying days of the most unpopular American presidency in living memory. Financial mismanagement and weak regulatory frameworks have devastated the US economy, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Two million Americans may lose their homes. Millions in the US and Europe will lose their jobs.

Yet the devastating legacy of the Bush presidency leaves open great opportunities for Indonesia, the Muslim world and the developing countries of the South.
Indonesia can play a key role in leading the Muslim world toward economic recovery, and help minimize the impact of global recession.

First, by managing its national economy to maintain growth, demand, imports and exports. The nominal Gross Domestic Product for 2009 is projected at $547 billion. Indonesia is already in the top 20 economies of the world.

Indonesia is currently overtaking Belgium and Sweden. It will soon overtake Turkey, the Netherlands and Austria as it enormous size, resources and population come into play. It is a strong candidate to join the top 10 economies in the world within two decades.

Second, by mobilizing investment for oil, gas, energy projects, biofuels, infrastructure (roads, railways, ports), manufacturing and retailing sectors. It needs over $40 billion for electricity alone, to finance an additional 40,000 MWe of power by 2025. Indonesia will become a nuclear power, and plans four power stations. Total foreign investment needed overall during the next 15 years exceeds $100 billion.

Investment is still coming from the US and EU (including Eastern Europe) but increasingly from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and also from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation countries like Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and from Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states (including Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand). Investment is also coming in greater volume from the Gulf Arab states, Israel and South Africa.

Third, Indonesia can help lead Muslim economies by using its economic size and prestige as a member of the United Nations Security Council to join Brazil, Russia, India, China and Southern countries to bring about changes in policies and in the balance of power in world organizations dealing with trade, finance and development, especially the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO).

Indonesia has major reservations about the IMF following its own experience in 1998. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said that the world should not slip into creating a shadow world economic government run by an inner IMF council. Indonesia is also tired of being kept on the fringes in the WTO.

Asia and Southern countries want a new deal. Muslim countries collectively represent an increasingly important source of capital, while Western liquidity has partly dried up. Muslim economies represent important investment sources as well as investment destinations. The collective size of Muslim economies represents significant demand for Western goods and services, relatively unaffected by the recession in the West.

Indonesia can still deploy export credits, sovereign funds, Islamic finance and other non-traditional financial sources, such as environmental funds and carbon credits. Despite the global downturn Indonesia is still pulling in some bank finance.

A $140 million syndicated loan for Excelcomindo for telecommunications expansion was announced recently. Low-cost airline Lion Air is buying 12 Boeing 737 planes even though the required local cash contribution for the last four has risen to 30 percent. Lion Air will use its own cash to carry on expanding. St. Miguel Corp. of the Philippines is competing with a US-led consortium to clinch a $1.3 billion coal supply deal, to buy PT Bumi Resources from Bakri Brothers. There is money here and money coming in.

Standard and Poors is holding Indonesian credit ratings stable and its credit rating may even be raised. Singapore could slip into recession but Indonesia will not, and the reason is mostly sheer size plus improved financial and economic management.

Indonesia is in a key position as the largest Muslim country in the world with a population of 230 million and a land area of 1.9 million square kilometers.

The Indonesian Gross Domestic Product was $843.7 billion in terms of purchasing power and $432.9 billion in terms of official exchange rates in 2007. It has fixed foreign investment of $57.6 billion and holds $9 billion of investment in other countries. It has more than 3,500 millionaires holding over $100 million each, of whom 70 percent live in Jakarta.

Its current economic growth is 6.5 percent and may fall below 6 percent in 2009 due to reduced exports. Government will stimulate growth using the national budget which already reached $100 billion in 2008. Government is confident it can hold growth at 6 percent. The World Bank has set aside a $2 billion standby loan for 2009 only to be triggered if growth falls below 5.8 percent.

In 2007 Indonesian exports were $118 billion and imports $86 billion, a trade surplus of $32 billion, and foreign exchange reserves as of this month were $50 billion.

Indonesia has already lost some jobs in sectors like textiles. Some exports to the US and Europe fell in the fourth quarter. The stock market, government bonds and the national currency also fell in value during the global financial crash in the first week of October.
The government launched a securities buy-back program spearheaded by state-owned enterprises and defended the rupiah currency by intervening in the currency market via the Bank of Indonesia. The government also took steps to increase liquidity and focused on getting inflation under control and on maintaining growth.

The government has increased guarantees on personal deposits to 2 billion rupiahs ($190,000), which covers 100 percent of deposits for over 99.7 percent of 81 million bank accounts.

Indonesian banks are strong, with adequate reserves, low non-performing loans and almost no exposure to subprime losses. Only a small group of investors lost money on Lehman-related instruments purchased via international banks.

The Indonesian inflation rate is declining from a high of 12 percent to maybe 9 percent by January with reductions planned to between 9 percent and 7 percent for the rest of 2009. The bank rate is being stabilized at 9.5 percent after six months of consecutive rises. It will be held for a while and then reduced to 7.5 percent in 2009.

Indonesian bonds are recovering from their recent nose-dive and the stock market is stabilizing. Local economists say the stock market was over-valued and more normal values and returns will be restored as part of the local share trading cycle.

The government is now focusing on trying to mobilize its massive $115 billion dollar national budget for 2009, up from $100 billion in 2008, to push projects and overall spending forward and help substitute local demand for declines in exports, with every hope of keeping economic growth for 2009 at between 5.5 and 6.0 percent.

Despite the collapse of the Bank of Indonesia subsidiary Indover Bank in the Netherlands, there is no sovereign default. Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and the new central bank governor, Boediono, have taken a stand against previous mismanagement.
In contrast to the kid-glove treatment of failed bankers and financial managers in the West, who took imprudent and possibly illegal risks, the Indonesian government is directing the work of its Corruption Eradication Commission and Corruption Court against corrupt central bankers and parliamentarians who took bribes.

The Indonesian government also says it will pursue legally those who misused its name and dragged it into the Indover collapse, by implying there were sovereign guarantees backing Indover borrowing when there were none. It also intends to pursue allegations of short trading and fraudulent practices in the stock exchange.

Indonesia lost 10 years as a result of the 1998 banking crash when it put its fate in the hands of the IMF, which initially failed to understand local strengths and exaggerated local weaknesses. An historical photo shows President Suharto sitting at his desk, signing his own political death-warrant while the IMF representative stood over him, as he signed the IMF agreement.

A lot has changed between the Asian banking crash of 1998 and the Wall Street crash of 2008. The economic balance of power in the world has changed and the balance of global power has shifted to the South and East. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recognized this when he urged the Gulf states and the G20 to help stabilize the world economy.
In the 1998 bank crash Indonesia had no freedom and no choice.

This time in 2008 Indonesia has freedom and is stronger, and can chose to tread its own path. Hopefully its greater strength and determination will inspire Muslim and Southern countries not to panic in the face of recession in the West, but to work together to avoid the spread of recession to the South and to build and strengthen a new world economic order.

Terry Lacey is a development economist who writes from Jakarta, Indonesia, on modernization in the Muslim world, investment and trade relations with the European Union and Islamic banking. This article is published with permission from the author.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=97616

Who’s pics is this? Redback’s or Cisco’s??

sigitp — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:26:00 +0000

See Image below:

and image below:

Weird…. can you see it also?

Crazy Governement Tax

sigitp — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:52:48 +0000

One of my friend got assigned to work 1 month in Italy. So he left his pregnant wife in Jakarta. For his taken family time, our office gives allowance.

Two months earlier, our allowance is tax free, only 15% cut for breakfast fee. But now, its different…tax authorities put their nose snooping around.

My friend got 30% governemnt tax cut from his 1 month allowance + 15% for breakfast free. So we only got half of what we should have earned. We left our family, yet our allowance cutted by half.

I curse tax authorities… “Lunasi Pajaknya, Awasi Penggunaannya”, so what the hell are you doing heh?? Blood sucker lazy ass!!!

FCUK!!!!

LTE Test Bed

sigitp — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:26:44 +0000

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is specifying the long-term evolution of third-generation cellular systems to meet demands for higher user bit rates. Ericsson has thus developed a test bed to evaluate new access technologies and to investigate the suitability of new implementation technologies for future radio-access products.

The authors explain the access concept and anticipated requirements for LTE and describe the test-bed system, architecture, subsystems, and technology.

Background
In September 2006, 3GPP finalized a study item called Evolved UTRA and UTRAN. The purpose of the study was to define the long-term evolution (LTE) of 3GPP access technology in order to keep it competitive even in the distant future. A corresponding work item is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2007. The 3GPP also conducted a parallel study, called System Architecture Evolution (SAE), to outline the evolution of the core network.

Introduction to LTE
The 3GPP study item began by setting requirements and defining the scope of LTE.
Examples of these requirements are

improved instantaneous peak data rates – 100Mbps in the downlink and 50Mbps in the uplink;
reduced latency – less than 100ms transition from camped state to active state, less than 50ms transition from dormant state to active state, and less than 5ms IP packet latency in the user plane in an unloaded system;
improved system performance – two- to four-fold increase in downlink bit rates compared with a basic release 6 system (HSDPA), and two- to three-fold increase in uplink bit rates compared with a basic release 6 system (E-DCH); and
improved spectrum flexibility – ability to deploy the system in many different frequency bands, in paired and unpaired spectrum, and with different spectrum allocations (for example, 1.25, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0 and 20MHz).

The requirements were also used as input for determining the choice of air interface. To fulfill the requirements put on spectrum flexibility and peak data rates, the study item concluded that the air interface in the downlink should be based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). This approach yields a frequency structure that splits data over a large number of individual subcarriers with a spacing of 15kHz. The smallest addressable unit, called a resource block, is defined as 12 consecutive subcarriers in frequency and 14 consecutive symbols in time. The resource block is thus 180kz in the frequency domain and equal to 1ms (or one subframe) in the time domain. A subframe is also the minimum transmission time interval (TTI). Short TTIs favor the requirements put on latency in the user plane. The main method of fulfilling the requirements for peak data rates calls for the transmission of parallel streams of data to a single terminal using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques.

For the uplink, the study item recommended a single-carrier-based frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) solution with dynamic bandwidth. This approach allows for a power-efficient implementation of the user terminal. The basic parameters, such as subframe and TTI, match those of the downlink.

Ericsson’s LTE test bed thus uses cyclic-prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) technology in the downlink and localized or interleaved FDMA technology in the uplink. At present, in a single-stream configuration from a single mobile user to the radio base station (RBS), it supports transmission rates of up to nearly 80Mbps in the downlink and 25Mbps in the uplink. The addition of three more streams in the downlink will give the test bed a peak data rate of nearly 300Mbps.

The LTE test bed is currently limited to a single cell configuration without support for radio resource management, admission control, or handover between cells or sectors. Apart from basic radio and baseband (BB) capabilities, it implements medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and a simple interface to applications and services. It has also been prepared to work with advanced antenna solutions. Therefore, the LTE access network can optimize transmission according to a user’s location and needs – that is, it can combine several streams, form beams (beamforming) for longer range, or employ other combinations of transmission.

http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/publications/review/2007_01/02.shtml

RUU APP

sigitp — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:45:54 +0000

Hmm.. I am not sure on my opinion about this issue…

yang jelas – faktanya, kelakuan anak muda jaman sekarang sudah seperti kambing

sudah bisa saling menyetubuhi satu sama lain… padahal belum tamat smp, belum tamat sma…

najis

Jadi,,,, anda setuju??