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Visiting Yahoo! Indonesia OMG partners
I am and my colleague Jimmi Kembaren having business trip in Surabaya, East Java. Yesterday, we visitted AsianPlus office. AsianPlus is a weekly entertaintment tabloid focuses on Korean, Japanese, Chinese celebrities news and gossip. AsianPlus is one of our content partners for Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! - entertainment channel that's just launched on June 9.
Today, we plan to visit another partner: KapanLagi in Malang. AsianPlus and KapanLagi are the only partners office located outside Jakarta. Other partners including Vivanews, Okezone, Cek & Ricek, Antara and Tempo Interaktif.
OMG (http://omg.yahoo.com) is Yahoo! Entertaintment channel, originally launched on U.S. market. Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! offers entertainment and celebrity news, photos and blogs. For its international celebrity news, Yahoo! Indonesia OMG tries to emphasize on Asian stars news, photos and gossip.
Jakarta, Asia's next Silicon Valley?
TechCrunch's piece on how Indonesians' startups companies keep struggling and growing. One for sure, according to the article, Indonesia is absolutely unique among other countries --in term of the nature of start-ups companies. And their expectations.
What is the Biggest Challenge Indonesian Web Entrepreneurs Face? Surprisingly, no one I asked said capital or exits. The relative lack of big, lucrative coding jobs from the multinationals like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft and the lack of venture capital have kept developer wages and costs of building a startup incredibly low. No one seems to feel a real pain for venture capital, because none of these companies are started with an expectation of it. This makes Indonesia absolutely unique among the 11 or so countries I’ve visited in the last two years. Instead, the pain point is finding developers.
Telkomsel iPhone 3GS gets a release date?
My friend Aulia over at Gajeto broke a news about the most-possible release date for iPhone 3GS in Indonesia: January 20, 2010. Actually, it's the Apple's second attempts to conquer Indonesian market. Could Telkomsel, local operator for iPhone, deal with the market that's already occupied with the hype of BlackBerry devices?
Late last month we saw OKEshop outlets sporting actual iPhone 3GS banners at their shops and just today, we received word from id-mac mailing list that a customer service officer at Grapari in Bandung claims that Telkomsel will finally release iPhone 3GS on January 20, 2010. Grapari is of course Telkomsel's official retail and customer service outlet...Hopefully with an additional two month lead time compared to their previous effort, along with nine months of experience, Telkomsel has figured out a way to avoid the disastrous 2009 campaign and start marketing iPhone 3GS properly.
Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid dies
Indonesia's former president Abdurrahman Wahid, better known as Gus Dur, died in Jakarta's Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital on Wednesday. He was 69 years old.Hospital director Doctor Akmal Taher said Gus Dur died from complications of kidney and heart problems. The former president had been undergoing regular dialysis for some time. He was hospitalized last week after traveling in East Java.
Thank you, Gus Dur, for teaching us a unique democracy. An Indonesian way.
BREAKING: Prita Mulyasari cleared of all charges
Prita Mulyasari has been cleared of criminal defamation charges by Tangerang District Court on Tuesday in the case brought against her by doctors from Omni Hospital.The judge, Arthur Harnewa, delivered the verdict and said that Prita’s good name would now be restored. All charges against her have now been dropped.
Currently pregnant with her third child, Prita was accused of defaming the upscale hospital in Tangerang through an e-mail she sent to 20 of her friends.
The criminal case was brought against her by two doctors working at Omni, while the hospital sued her in a separate civil case.
Her case sparked public outrage after she was detained for three weeks ahead of her criminal trial and the court fined her Rp 312 million ($33,000) in the civil case.
All charges against Prita Mulyasari, a mother of two, finally has been cleared by Tangerang District Court this morning. Finally the justice won, thanks God.
So I'm joining Yahoo! now
After more than 2.5 years working as a full-time blogger and running a Jakarta-based blogging company called Asia Blogging Network, now I'm joining Yahoo! I was recently appointed as Country Editor for Yahoo! Indonesia, and will be based in Singapore for 6-12 months while setting-up Indonesia's office.
Why did I accept this offer? Of course, it's so challenging. This role is also still in-line with my passion: engaging with online content and community. My responsibilities including to engage and work with local content partners as well as writers and bloggers. It means that I will keep engaging and meeting with all of you, my fellow bloggers and readers :-) As the role's name suggests -- the Country Editor -- I will be much more working on news, columns, blogs etc for Yahoo! Indonesia site.
After left Tempo --Indonesia's most respected news organization-- more than two years ago, it's nice that finally I will return back to the newsroom. This time Yahoo!'s newsroom. Despite I can't blog for CNET Asia and SlashPhone (including PhoneMag and iPhoneBuzz) or contributing tech articles for The Jakarta Post anymore, but I will keep blogging for my personal blogs as well as greeting and seeing you through Twitter, Facebook or some other social media accounts. I will be starting my Yahoo tenure next week. Wish me luck with this new venture.
