Yearly Archives: 2012

The Santa Effect

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…” chanted Michael Bublé when I stepped into my favorite shopping mall in South Jakarta recently. For those of you like me who have been pretty much spending every weekend “mall-hopping” in Jakarta,…

Significance of Media Profiling


Media landscape in Indonesia has changed over the past decade. Addressing the public’s demand for more specialized information, media in general has become more segmented. The number of media has also grown exponentially during the period. With that being said,

Kalau Mau Kasih Hadiah…

“Kalau mau kasih hadiah, kasih hadiah, kalau tidak mau, enggak apa-apa, tetapi kebangetan.”
 
Kata –kata ini diucapkan oleh Menteri ESDM Jero Wacik…  hari Senin (19/11/12) mengenai para wartawan setelah mengatakan bahwa Humas (Hubungan Masyarakat) BP Migas mati konyol. Lebih

Hary Tanoesoedibjo on Media and Politics Affairs

We have seen how mixing media ownership and political obsession has worked in Indonesia with the examples of TV One and Aburizal Bakrie; and Media Group and Suryo Paloh. Hence, when Hary Tanoesoedibjo, the owner of the media conglomerate MNC…

My First Week at Maverick

What did you have in mind as a fresh graduate about to enter the “real world”? My friends and I visualized a formal working space, shuffling paper in a room freezing cold because of the air conditioner, sharing the room…