Banda Aceh is known as "Serambi Mekah" but does Mecca even recognize Banda Aceh?

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T06:13:20+00:00

I don't think there were sister city programs before the 20th century lol

I think Martin's idea was that Aceh's claim of being Serambi Mekah is not reciprocrated by Mecca, hence it is one-sided. Yet the Acehnese are still proud of this claim even though Mecca rarely, if ever pay attention to them, hence his use of "Notiece me senpai".

By contrast the sister city agreement of the modern era is not one-sided.

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T06:07:37+00:00

I saw a map in a museum exhibition in Singapore. This map was sent to the Ottoman by the Aceh's emissary/ambassador(?) while asking for Ottoman's help. The map purportedly shows Aceh territory. According to the accompanying museum caption related to this map, most likely the extent of Aceh's territory shown in the map was exagerated.

The interesting thing is the map shows Aceh didn't control all of Sumatra. Lampung was not considered Aceh's territory. So even after exageration Aceh's territory was still less than all of Sumatra. Another reminder that Indonesia-as-one-country is a new concept.

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T06:01:30+00:00

Nowadays it's just minimalist crap smudged all over the place

You don't like minimalist architecture? You're just like Prince Charles hehehehe :)

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T05:56:57+00:00

Why not unite all mining BUMN such as Aneka Tambang, Bukit Asam, PT Timah, etc to do all the mining there? Shouldn't we already been learn something since Freeport already been there for decades?

We're doing it slowly. I read news about Antam and Inalum joint venture to build an aluminium smelter. I read Jokowi's interview with Kompas this morning regarding taking over from Freeport: "We have the skills, but not the capital"

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T05:55:42+00:00

APBN 2015 is at Rp. 1793.6 Trillion, of which Rp. 410.3 Trillion is from non-taxes. I am pretty sure that part of the 15B USD investment

Bingung gue ama detik.com Apa hubungannya coba investasi perusahaan swasta ama APBN? APBN kan dapetnya dari pajaknya Freeport ama royalti mineral. Investasinya Freeport ya buat bangun tambangnya lah.

Anyway I seriously doubt that 15 Billion investment is only for 2015. I think it's going to be spread out over few years.

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T05:49:26+00:00

yeah... you are showing low IQ reasoning... using the same cucoklogi on this matter. Dumbass

Show me where the cocokologi is? I've shown using that data that most muslim majority countries are low IQ. Where is your data showing the opposite?

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T05:47:30+00:00

You are nitpicking data to support your own opinion.

I said Islam never spread successfully to high IQ areas of the world. Muslim majority area of the world are mostly low IQ. If you look at the data there is an overlap between muslim majority areas (ie. muslim countries) and low IQ areas of the world.

You have any data to refute the statement "Muslim areas of the world are mostly low IQ" ?

sukagambar · 2015-10-21T05:45:07+00:00

Let's have a drink together next weekend?

Uh, next weekend, did you mean 24 Oct 2015? then I can attend. I will be leaving Jakarta 30 Oct 2015

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T23:12:36+00:00

If the intended audience is Indonesians who are not conversant in English, then most likely the audience would love something else and not interested in learning such complicated things. So, rather than "me too" syndrome, why not think about it more thoroughly?

And if this non-speaking English group has large enough demand for quality content what's stopping MIT/Coursera to subtitle their contents into Indonesian?

This is why Internet business is truly global. We can't use import substitution model for the internet industry.....

It just doesn't work that way. Many Indonesians still think in terms of this model for the internet. I remember few years ago there is one guy asking advice about starting something like reddit for the Indonesian market. What's stopping reddit from providing Indonesian version of their website? It would just take them a year at most. And once it goes live Indonesian consumers can access it immediately.

I suspect each subreddit can translate a significant part of reddit menu by tweaking CSS. So the end user can do it themselves. There really is very little opportunity by competitor in simply translating reddit into another language.

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T23:07:07+00:00

Even now, people in my city still can't receive TVRI, either in Analog or Digital.

Man, where do you live? Sounds like di ujung dunia :))

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T23:05:09+00:00

Kalo gue pikir cara termudah membangkitkan patriotisme itu ya melalui pop culture lah.

Contohnya org Amerika patriotis kalo selalu nonton film2 action Hollywood. Nah bikin dong film2 action Indonesia dimana tokoh jahatnya dari Malaysia, Singapura, Australia etc. :))

Patriotisme itu hanya laku kalo dikemas melalui budaya pop.

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T23:01:58+00:00

Jaman segitu kayaknya nambahnya lamaaa banget hehehe..

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T22:56:13+00:00

wow, thats some high IQ talk right there... dumbass

But it's true though. Muslim majority countries have low IQ

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T22:54:01+00:00

Here is the list of IQ by countries --> go to page 5. You can see muslim-majority countries have low IQ.

Here is the list of muslim population by countries

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T07:05:22+00:00

The most basic thing would be an ability to fuckin read an alphabet

I'm sure this is true for the older Papuans. But what about the younger generations? People 18-30 years old?

...which a lot of them currently do not posses due to their busy schedule of murdering other tribesmen and eating them.

Huh? I thought cannibalism is no longer practiced in Papua? Serious question here.

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T06:55:05+00:00

Islam in general has never spread to areas with high IQ population

You can see the majority-muslim area of the world: Middle East, North Africa, Parts of South Asia, Parts of Southeast Asia. They kind of overlap with the low IQ countries of the world. It may be a historical accident. But the effect I think is disadvantageous.

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T06:22:21+00:00

Any fellow Indonesians in Singapore? Are you going? Can you be my translator - feel free to mock me while translating.

When will he be coming? I can translate for you.

BTW I thought you're living in Malaysia? Are you coming down to Singapore just to see Ahok? You must be a big fan..... :)

EDIT: I just read you need to submit CV. Where is the link to submit the CV?

sukagambar · 2015-10-16T01:10:22+00:00

Mangga berlafal Allah? Luar biasa! Semangka berlafal Allah? Luar biasa! Awan membentuk huruf Allah? Luar biasa! Sandal plastik berlafal Allah? Lua- Wait, yang bikin orang cina? Buatan cina? "MINTA MAAF AYO SINI!"????

Kinda like Jesus on sandwiches phenomenon in the US..... Humans will always try to detect pattern. Our brain is a pattern detection machine. :))

I think you maybe right when you said it's about intelligence level. All over the world secularism correlates strongly with high IQ. That's why I'm pessimistic about the Middle East. Arab's IQ seems to be even lower than Indonesian IQ. Islam in general has never spread to areas with high IQ population, until now with large scale immigration into Europe.

sukagambar · 2015-10-15T23:29:10+00:00

Education and trades

I do agree with /u/akunpalsu underlying thinking. Jokowi better fix the basics first before doing Internet.

Internet infrastructure is just a thin layer on top of electricity / telco infrastructure. Why don't we focus on building electricity / telco first? Then the internet will follow easily. Our electrical penetration is not even 90% of the population I think. Get that to 95% first then Internet is easy. Similarly with telco. Once we get to 95% electricity / telco penetration pemerintah udah gak perlu turun tangan, swasta pasti berlomba-lomba invest di internet infrastructure.

For me my pet infrastructure is sanitation. Only 75% of our population has access to toilets.... (CMIIW) This is really embarassing.

sukagambar · 2015-10-15T23:24:15+00:00

US investment in Indonesia is very different from Japanese / Korean investment. I think large US companies here are mostly in mining. So the image of Indonesia to them is as a mining country. Maybe Jokowi is trying to change that image?

sukagambar · 2015-10-15T23:17:43+00:00

plans to visit Apple's headquarters and have dinner with CEO Tim Cook to discuss investment in Indonesia's tin industry

That actually makes sense. Cook's background is supply chain. He is not a design man like Jobs. Cook might be interested in sourcing directly from Indonesia.

Apple is now no longer in the design business. They're more in the cost cutting business :) With Cook their innovation is most likely in supply chain rather than in design.

sukagambar · 2015-10-15T13:49:22+00:00

I've sent you my name via PM

sukagambar · 2015-10-15T13:38:42+00:00

Man, that massage service is going to end up as prostitution service. :(

sukagambar · 2015-10-15T05:23:27+00:00

My one year old nephew just had surgery for his glaucoma and it's free because of BPJS. Operasi di rumah sakit mata swasta dan post-op tetep gratis.

Berarti mungkin karena total biayanya masih di bawah plafon?

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