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    Should work & school be suspended tomorrow?

    Deddy Corbuzier, Indonesia’s Joe Rogan, in his podcast reveal the involvement of CIA. The podcast is in Indonesian, if you understand Indonesian but don’t have the time to finish the one-hour show, just watch the 30-second opening teaser where Ulta (terrorism expert) expose the agenda to...
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    Should work & school be suspended tomorrow?

    He was not part of the riot, he was there to deliver food to someone who ordered it from Gojek. I saw on YT a video shot from the left side of the road (most videos circulating on YT were shot from the right side), looks like he fell because someone (man in white) shoved him while running across...
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    Should work & school be suspended tomorrow?

    I heard there will be no classes this whole week. Our factory has postponed all export shipments scheduled for this week, we want to avoid "hijack" incidents while transporting the containers to the port. You never know where the masses are going to be.
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    Should work & school be suspended tomorrow?

    The news is on the Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/5264faa0-2ce2-48e7-8fa0-da2c0a286720
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    Should work & school be suspended tomorrow?

    Is there work or school tomorrow? Will it be safe?
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    ANTIPLAQUE Toothpaste, proudly made in Indonesia

    Not many people know that ANTIPLAQUE contains Clove Oil. I don't know what Arnica Montana Extract and Eugenia Caryophyllus Extract are, it could be exotic ingredients too. ANTIPLAQUE is a local brand not only manufactured in Indonesia but also developed in Indonesia which distinguishes it from...
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    ANTIPLAQUE Toothpaste, proudly made in Indonesia

    Mauricio once commented that Indonesian toothpaste brand ANTIPLAQUE is more expensive (but better) than multinational brands. I have been using ANTIPLAQUE for years, we always kept several months (up to a year probably) of supply at home. When stock is low (usually 2-4 tubes of 180g each), we...
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    Corporate “Sudden Death Syndrome”

    The owner decided to close, he probably cannot recover most of his investment even if he is able to move his machinery and sell the factory building. Read the news, the workers are not complaining about their wages. So it's not about paying too little. Working conditions must be excellent as...
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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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