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    Corporate “Sudden Death Syndrome”

    They are not bankrupt, but they lost business. Buyers cancelled their orders. Factory cannot run without orders. They cannot produce with no buyers of their products. No sales = no revenue. How can they pay their workers without income from sales? I don't know if there is a regulation that...
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    Corporate “Sudden Death Syndrome”

    Another case... KOMPAS.com - Sebanyak 1.126 buruh PT Yihong Novatex Indonesia di Kabupaten Cirebon, Jawa Barat, harus menerima nasib pahit usai perusahaan tempat mereka bekerja memutuskan menghentikan operasional. Langkah ini diambil manajemen perusahaan setelah terjadi aksi mogok kerja selama...
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    Indonesia & Corruption: a few articles in the past few weeks

    KOMPAS newspaper published an in-depth research and report to expose criminal activities (premanisme) of mass organizations (ormas) on 17 & 18 March 2025. The special reports (liputan investigasi) are on pages 1 & 2, quite a long read, 10 articles in all. Essential read for those doing business...
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    Online Security

    Banks are pushing apps to cut costs. I will not bank with banks that don't have hardware token or at least SMS OTP. BCA and Panin are banks that have hardware tokens in Indonesia, they also have apps for mobile banking, but I don't like using the phone for banking so I didn't install their apps...
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    Corporate “Sudden Death Syndrome”

    PT. Danbi International is manufacturer/exporter of False Eyelashes with more than 2 thousand employees which closed their business abruptly when workers were informed at dawn that “yesterday was their last day”. The company was declared bankrupt which could have been avoided if the union...
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    Chinese belligerence

    By David J. Wong on Quora: Australia recently sent an RAAF P-8A Poseidon aircraft to patrol the South China Sea. That’s 5,000km from Australia’s coast. In May last year, they sent a P-8A to the Yellow Sea, just off China’s coast, 6,800km away from Australia. Supposedly that one was about...
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    Trumponomics

    “4. Reject a peace deal. Keep that secret.” Oh well, you see that’s a secret. How do I know? Just joking but I’m sure Balifrog can answer it better than me. Anyway, I don’t know which peace deal it was referring to, I’ll just assume the Russia-Ukraine peace deal. Zelensky was about to sign the...
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    Trumponomics

    Surprise, surprise. Trump's DOGE head Elon Musk is Pro-China. He even made a video on YouTube about it.
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    Trumponomics

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    Trumponomics

    Georgian PM alleges US Embassy, USAID, NED acting in “coordinated manner” against his country http://agenda.ge/en/news/2025/42710#gsc.tab=0 Tulsi Gabbard evokes the CIA’s Timber Sycamore (regime change) program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
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    Extortion and corruption at Soekarno-Hatta Airport led to the dismissal of ALL immigration staff at the airport.

    Tempo, January 24th, “Immigration to Deport 2 Chinese Nationals for Spreading False Accusations Against Officers” https://en.tempo.co/read/1967643/immigration-to-deport-2-chinese-nationals-for-spreading-false-accusations-against-officers Tempo, February 1st, “Soekarno-Hatta Airport...
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    AI Businesses Impacted by DeepSeek AI

    DeepSeek is free and open source. You can download it and make it your own local version of DeepSeek. For example, if you are a China hater, you can modify DeepSeek to hate the Chinese government and it gives you the answers you want. On the other hand, you cannot stop ChatGPT from censoring...
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    AI Businesses Impacted by DeepSeek AI

    DeepSeek vs. OpenAI's ChatGPT https://x.com/Zagonel85/status/1883995816479842640 I believe DeepSeek will be banned soon, just like TikTok, and their CEO better not set foot in any Western countries lest be detained, just like Huawei's CFO.
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    Farmed Salmon (derail from Today's Menu thread).

    Speaking of salmon, many years ago I did a chit chat with one of our factory workers. He mentioned buying salmon for his child, and I asked why salmon, and he said because it will make kids smart. I told him any fish will do the same. Salmon was imported and expensive back then, especially for...
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    Indonesia & Corruption: a few articles in the past few weeks

    Did you notice the difference between the villa in Bali and this sea fence? The German investor was identified and arrested while the owner of the sea fence is not. No news about who owns the sea fence. And who are responsible for issuing the HGB and SHM. Will they ever be caught, arrested...
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    Jakarta dentists 2024, and general quality question

    How old is the dentist? It doesn't matter if she's western-educated, if she's young, then not much work experience. I'll always go for middle-age dentist, not too old and male. Because if too old, his/her hands could be unstable already, and male so have strength to pull tooth if necessary. Know...
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    Land ownership and registration certificate

    That's what I'm trying to say from the beginning. It's impossible that there is no permit, especially for such a huge project.
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    Unlimited KITAP

    Yes, indeed. 5-year KITAP has "date of expiry" while Unlimited KITAP has "date of report". "Date of Expiry" means you have to renew before expiry while "Date of Report" simply means you have to report by that date. Renewal means there's fee to renew it, while report can be free of charge. I...
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    Land ownership and registration certificate

    If there is no permit, then the German investor was cheated by the contractor. The contractor should not start construction without any permit. As a foreigner, the German investor, may not be aware of what permits are required. He should hire a good lawyer, like Hotman Paris Hutapea.
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    Land ownership and registration certificate

    Usually the contractor is responsible for obtaining the building permit, if permit was issued, then investigate the government official who issued it. The German investor was a victim, those who cheated him should be arrested instead. Anyway, do you think the villa is going to be demolished and...

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