It’s May 2019 and Lemonilo is now more than 2 year old company. The core team is still the same: me, Shinta and Ronald. And I think back in Aug 2016, we pulled the plug on Konsula at the right time. There are several lessons that we learned from our short journey with Konsula – […]
Our new Konsula website is finally launched on December 9, 2015. I am so blessed that everyone is putting all of their energy in this–talking about working with people with passions. Our site has started to be used by people who are looking for doctors and other medical professionals. We have received medical-related queries as well. […]
It’s been a while and now I’m back in Jakarta after spending 10 years overseas. It’s been an exciting so far as I and two other friends are starting a new medtech start-up. It’s called Konsula (www.konsula.com), with a vision to break open access to healthcare for Indonesian people. To achieve this, we are doing […]
Abstract — Lebanon stands to benefit significantly from extracting and monetizing its potential natural gas reserves. However, significant uncertainty has resulted in stakeholders adopting a wait-and-see approach in decision-making and investment in the hydrocarbon sector. This paper aims to address this uncertainty by providing a structured framework to determine the conditions that make various export options under […]
This article originally appeared in the opinion column of The Jakarta Post, October 26, 2014, and also being featured in The Straits Times, October 29, 2014 Syamsul has been fishing off the coast of Cilincing, North Jakarta for the past 20 years. But he soon might find it hard to get a good catch. “If the weather is really […]
This article originally appeared in Global Indonesian Voices, 1 August 2014 On 12-15 July 2014, five young Indonesians attended the Youth 20 (Y20) Summit which was hosted by Australia as delegates. This year’s Y20 Summit was attended by 110 delegates from twenty G20 member countries and five guest countries—Mauritania, Myanmar, New Zealand, Singapore, and Spain. The […]
This article was written by a colleague, Dyah Ayunico Ramadhani, after our participation in Y20 Summit 2014 in Sydney, Australia, and originally appeared in The Jakarta Post, July 23, 2014 Around 120 youths from G20 member countries gathered in Sydney on July 12–15 for the Youth 20 (Y20) Summit to formulate recommendations on how to solve global economic […]
This article originally appeared in the opinion column of The Jakarta Post, March 8, 2014 Too much proliferation leads to profligacy. Under Soeharto, at least, there was only one person to bribe, but with decentralization, there are now more than 500 of them. Proliferation of new administrative regions ( pemekaran wilayah), however, is set to accelerate […]
The Jakarta Post Feb. 26, p2 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/03/03/issue-day-is-jokowi-will-history.html If there is one person in Indonesia that has the strongest emotional bond with this republic and will not risk the country’s future for mere political ambition, that person is probably Megawati Soekarnoputri. It is her father’s legacy that has given her a sense of responsibility to preserve […]
This article originally appeared in The Jakarta Post, February 26, 2014 If there is one person in Indonesia that has the strongest emotional bond with this republic and will not risk the country’s future for mere political ambition, that person is probably Megawati Soekarnoputri. It is her father’s legacy that has given her a sense […]