http://indonesiaupdate.org News from Indonesia Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:05:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Indonesia’s volcano centre said Mount Kelud in East Java has not erupted, as earlier reported on Saturday. But the above photo showing the dark cloud shrouding the volcano in the background is seen by some as a sign an eruption is imminent. Mount Kelud erupted killed at least 30 people in 1990, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/indonesiatech/~3/179442624/ This Idul Fitri festive season might become a new milestone for Excelcom, Indonesia’s third largest cellular provider. Its outgoing call traffics increased almost 600 per cent or six-folds higher than the last year’s Idul Fitri. (more…) http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/10/15/xlcoms-outgoing-call-increased-600-per-cent/ Indonesia’s giant network provider, Telkomsel, revealed that the volume of its short messages service (SMS) has increased drastically during this Idul Fitri festive season, reaching more than 400 million SMS traffic. (more…) http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/10/15/telkomsel-reached-sms-delivery-as-419-million-per-day/ An Indonesian boy has died from bird flu in the capital, bringing the country’s death toll from the virus to 88. Since Indonesia has been sharply criticized for being slow to act in its fight to control bird flu, we hope the Government should take a serious effort on this matter. Officials ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/10/14/indonesia-announces-human-bird-flu-death/ Indonesia is joining the global phenomenon of MobileMonday with establishment of MobileMonday Indonesia last month and its kick-off was marked in the Executive Brief Meeting in Jakarta, Monday. http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/10/10/indonesia-joins-mobilemonday/ Yeah, it’s very good news. Now Indonesian are also able to receive money through PayPal! Check-out my CNET Asia tech post on PayPal http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/10/04/finally-full-version-of-paypal-for-indonesia/ Cisco Indonesia Manager Director, Irfan Setiaputra, launched his personal blog recently. He decided to use his own name for the domain name, irfansetiaputra.com, instead of official cisco’s domain name. This is the first Indonesia’s CEO blog, and I hope other will follow Mr. Irfan’s footstep in Indonesia’s fast growing blogosphere. On his ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/09/05/cisco-indonesias-boss-goes-blogging/ Indonesia has moves forward beyond blogosphere: the country already enters the new world, called web 2.0 services. Several user-generated content services already launched, and the country’s community responded to them enthusiastically. Check-out my CNET Asia tech post on web 2.0 http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/08/20/indonesia%e2%80%99s-web-20-services/ Despite the fact that the online gaming market in Indonesia is definitely at its early stage, recent developments indicate that it has started to leave its shell as an emerging gaming market. IDC’s latest study has identified the following trends present in the Indonesian online gaming industry, specifically in the areas ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/08/12/indonesian-gaming-moves-forward/ Nokia Indonesia offers free Wi-Fi connection for N-series users by establishing a project called “1,000 Nokia NSeries WiFiZone”. Nokia has teamed up with the three giant network and Internet providers, Telkom, IM2 and CBN. Nokia signed the joint agreement today with IM2 and CBN, after a similar agreement with Telkom two ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/08/06/free-wi-fi-for-indonesias-n-series-users/ Wow! According to WordPress.com’s statistics (June 2007), Indonesia is one of the top languages used by WordPress.com users. Source: Thomas Arie’s posting http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/07/03/bahasa-indonesia-one-of-the-top-languages-in-wordpresscom/ Interesting that Asia has four representatives under “the Blog Belt”: Jakarta, Beijing, Mumbai and Singapore. Source: Ikhlasul Amal’s posting. http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/06/28/indonesia-under-the-blog-belt/ The West Java provincial administration urged the central government through its National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Monday to speed up the installation of an early warning system for tidal waves and tsunami along the southern coast of the province. As many as 864 people were displaced in Sukabumi and another ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/05/22/indonesias-govt-urged-to-speed-tidal-wave-warning-system/ It’s quite interesting to discover that some Indonesia’s islands names were favoritely picked-up as technology-related brands. After Java — where Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, located — was picked-up as the Sun’s platform technology, I just surprised to find that Sumatra, another big Island in the country, was also used as technology-related product: ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/04/30/indonesia%e2%80%99s-islands-names-are-sold-out/ I’ve always turned green with envy when I read or heard about the success stories of IT giants that have appeared frequently in the international media so far: None of the guys behind them were Indonesian! What’s wrong? Do we not have the talent or capability in this area? I don’t ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/04/23/indonesias-techpreneur-problem-the-lack-of-business-model-offered/ The Indonesian Transportation Community (MTI) has said the local rail industry must improve its technical capacity and services in order to avoid more accidents, says The Jakarta Post, due to frequently railway accidents in the country. “Thus, the Transportation Ministry should improve four basic elements of the railway system. They are ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/04/23/indonesias-railway-system-needs-an-overhaul/ Mourners scattered flowers over the grave of an Indonesian student buried Monday after he was gunned down in the Virginia Tech massacre in the U.S. Partahi “Mora” Lumbantoruan had been studying civil engineering when he was killed two semesters short of getting his doctorate. He would have turned 35 this Thursday. ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/04/23/indonesian-student-slain-in-virginia-tech-shooting/ The Research and Technology Ministry and PT Telkom will present awards to programmers capable of developing ‘open source’ software to commemorate the 12th National Technology Day. The award will only be presented to individuals or organizations whose products could be proven to be useful, original and uniquie. The last date to submit ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/04/23/indonesias-awards-for-software-programmers/ Indonesia’s mobile market has grew significantly. Hutchison Charoen Pokphand Telecom (HCPT) Indonesia decided to become the new player to the country’s mobile market after it rolled-out its nationwide GSM-based services Thursday. HCPT Indonesia will compete with existing local giants Telkomsel, Indosat and Excelcomindo as well as CDMA-based operators Telkom, Mobile-8, Bakrie ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/03/29/hutchison-new-player-in-indonesias-mobile-market/ It’s a good news. Instead of negotiating a contract to sell the Avian flu virus samples to an American vaccine company, an Indonesian engineer creates a new technology to combat against bird flu and awarded an international grant from Qualcomm, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access ... http://www.indonesiatech.com/2007/03/27/indonesian-engineer-combatting-bird-flu-by-cdma/