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"In Singapore, there is only black and white in term of law, you insult any race or religion you got jailed or fined, no matter what your race". - Changi taxi driver - Sep 16th, 2020. My very first trip to campus by taxi, I continue my old habits as curious marketer to always speak to the driver to gain some insight. While usually about product, this time about the country. But I'm not expecting suddenly he spoke about one Chinese lady recently got jailed because of her post in social media which insulted certain race/religion. He is also Chinese race, but he also told me proudly about this. The next day, I had a dinner with my China citizen classmate, the fact he never went to Indonesia and I'm the only Indonesian in the class, he can't hold to asked me, "Hi Kani, may I ask a sensitive question, is it true during the 1998 riots there are several rapes to Chinese?". I speechless, shame and can't find any appropriate responds except saying that during...

First of all,  this is such a heavy topic to write, especially from the non economist like me. But just to heads up, please bear on me, since this article is just to implement what I learned just now from Economic course 6013. So, any comments or challenge are welcome, and will be good learning for me.  Ok, lets start from Keynesian theory that mentioned that during the crisis, in order to make economy keep running, Government should spending more instead of holding budget. The reason is, during the crisis, not only income reduced but also the confidence level will fall. When people doubt with the economy they tend to do more saving instead of spending. Thus, its kind of double effect, not only groups of people lost their job (thus lower income) but also the other groups which have the money won't spend it. So during this condition, it should be government who lead the spending so that able to give multiplier effect to the economy.   That is why no wonder  in th...

 Today is my official last day as Marketing head Mayora India (Inbisco), it always emotional every time you need left your colleagues especially with different country. But I will not share about those awesome and nostalgic periods (even though it was super exciting). Instead this article was triggered by one of my recent friend questions, "Kani, how to be able to have an overseas experience? " Well, my short question is, it's definitely not overnight effort, not one year, not also 5 years. I must be honest, in my case, I prepared it for 9 years since my college graduation. Yes, its super suck to wait those 9 years, but I kept that dream live in every careers path that I took. For most of you, especially which smart enough to get global scholarship or afford for international degree, work overseas may not that cool. But for a simple Indonesian guy with average IQ score, come from middle SEC family, limited global coverage, and always struggling with English grammar :) lik...

Well, semenjak saya putuskan resign dari pekerjaan untuk mengejar MBA di Nanyang, ada muncul 2 kelompok pertanyaan. Ngapain? dan Gimana caranya?. Di artikel ini saya hanya akan menjawab pertanyaan kedua (maaf kalau judulnya clickbait :). Buat temen-temen yang mau lanjut ambil MBA, saya izin share sedikit tips berikut: Nabung, Nabung, Nabung: MBA itu mahal, at least kita harus siapin 500-900 juta untuk 1 tahun kuliah. Pasti beberapa berpikir, kenapa ga cari beasiswa aja? well, unlike jurusan lain seperti sains atau teknologi, unfortunately MBA tidak banyak beasiswanya. Bahkan di LPDP tidak termasuk salah satu jurusan strategis. Jadi pertanyaannya apakah kita akan "pasrah" dan melanjutkan MBA hanya jika dapat beasiswa? saya secara pribadi sudah prepare in last 5 years, menyisihkan dari gaji bulanan THR, dan bonus plus menunda beli ini dan itu. Pun akhirnya mendapat partial scholarship, itu menjadi bonus, tapi kita sudah prepare. Ingat, Well prepared guys always one step Ahead ...