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Attending Financial Technology Seminar in ITB Part 2: Required Skills in Digital Era and Learning From TCASH and Tokopedia About Financial Services

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The next speaker after Mrs. Sri Mulyani Indrawati in seminar of financial technology for Indonesia was partner from McKinsey Indonesia. They explained about digital archipelago and what skills required in digital era.

Digital Archipelago: How Online Commerce is Driving Indonesia’s Economic Development

You can download executive summary of the Digital Archipelago publication here. The publication is about how Indonesia’s economic development is growing due to growth of digital technology.

McKinsey team also described three types of skills required in this digital area, which are technology skills (digital skills), classic skills (human skills), and digital citizenship skills (metaskills). Read More

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Attending Financial Technology Seminar in ITB Part 1: Digital Economy and Its Challenges

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This weekend, I spent my time participating in seminar of financial technology for Indonesia held by ITB Department of Matematics. This event is part of biennial event which is Mathematical Challenge Festival and Mathematical Model Competition (MMC-MCF).

There are three motivation why I participated in this event. First, I want to spend by weekend by doing something very useful. Second, I want to share how I spent my weekend in this blog so this blog becomes rich with various topics. Three, one of main speakers in this event was Mrs. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who is Indonesia Ministry of Finance. Who would miss this opportunity? Read More

2012 Business Risk in Metal Industry

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I think metal industry is gaining interest this year. At my company, we have at least two project related to metal industry in the last three months. We have proposed one project related to energy conservation in metal industry as well.

I want to show you one example. Based on Market Study published by Brook Hunt (2011), there are at least four new ferronickel project in Indonesia under completion stage.

  • Antam’s ferronickel project at East Halmahera with total cost USD 1.6 billion
  • Nickel-in-matte (15% Ni) of PT Billy International and Jilin HOROC at Konawe region, South-East Sulawesi. Based on this source, the total cost would be USD 6 billion, which consider giant project
  • Ferronickel of PT Inco at Bohodopi, Morowali district, Central Sulawesi with total cost USD 500 million
  • Nickel mine and nickel smelter of Eramet at Weda Bay, Halmahera, with total project cost USD 6 billion Read More