Tag Archives: Indonesia

Affordable food

  By iip | October 14, 2011 - 3:26 am | Energy
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I agree with argument on the development of biofuel threatening Indonesia food security. It happen mainly through land conversion. In the next decades, biofuel crops will dominate agricultural land and decreasing forest land.

Today I read a 2006 publication on agricultural land conversion. It says that the accelerating rate of conversion of agricultural lands in mainly caused by very low incentives to work in agriculture compared to industrial and service sectors. I try to link it with biofuel development. (more…)

Doing business: Afraid of Chinese timber products

  By iip | October 9, 2011 - 3:26 pm | Business
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Here a brief situation of doing business in Indonesia, bear in mind if you interested to start a business in Indonesia: More Indonesians are afraid of chinese product!

Doing business in Indonesia might be better than in Malaysia, or Thailand. Only Vietnam that has similar and comfort environment to start up a new business.

More Indonesian businessman are worrying about Chinese products that will flood Indonesia‘s markets because of the FTA agreement. Chinese products are known as cheaper, mimic and some of them are below-average quality.

The ASEAN-China FTA agreement was signed about ten years ago in Cambodia, enabling member countries to make necessary years of preparations. Why businessman still worrying on Chinese product?

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Global warming, early spring and silent spring

  By iip | October 4, 2011 - 3:26 am | Earth
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Having reading Goddard’s article on Watts Up With That? then I begin to explore the relevant events on tropical country such Indonesia.

Goddard’s highlights on the recent early spring information, weather and its maps and some other claims.  By the way, do you still remember on the great book of Silet Spring? This book was credited as 100 books that changed the world.  Discovers Magazine named the books as 25 great science books  all the time. Thanks to the author, Rachel Carson, facilitated people alerting on the danger of chemical on the ecosystems.

Silent spring showed  uncarefull material usage affected the birds reproduction and thus changed their population. In the bigger case, the material related to green house gases are heating the earth and thus changes the world climate.

Below are the claims on the effects of climate change on Indonesia:

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