Sinetron v.s. Serial Film

Sinetron (Sinema Elektronik), Indonesian opera soap are rapidly fulfilling every hours of television slot nowadays. Mainly about love, family matters and stuff.

I just notice this, the main difference between Sinetron and Serial Film (which happens I watch in cable TV all the time) is:

Sinetron lacks of creativity

Sinetron comes up with problem-solving plot in a week time frame. So, the creativity will last for a week or two. Compare to serial film, which happens each episode brings new fresh idea PLUS the running stories (like in Sinetron), it is the winner of the creativity.

So, the question is:

Why we lack of creativity?

What makes Indonesian producers trapped in this kind of situation. Well, I think they are not. They must have a bunch of fresh ideas. The problem must be in commercial side. Commercial, in my opinion, kills ideas.

Back to business ethics, not everything should be commercially counted. An honest and trutful motivation for doing show, I believe will lead to greater impact. Even revenues.

Character Propotional to Age?

One of my friend ask a question during a CEO Speaks event. He is quite young. He spelled his question with round-and-round-and-round-and-round preamble. The result, that CEO didn't know to answer, because the CEO didn't understand the question.

I noticed that situation. I spoke to my self, I see my self in that young fellow. Proud and silly. Very shallow but super arrogant. I did even worse. In a class presentation held by my friends, I asked a question and I answered it myself. (My God, if I remember that stupid experience, I feel so ashame. To ashame that I could throw my self to the sea right now).

So, the question is:

Will that young fellow will understand this in the future?

Does aging really matters to the character growth?

Well, my answer is yes. God faces us with so many experiences. The reason is one: so we can be more like Him. Wise is one of God's character.

What makes it different is:

How much a man want to learn from each experiences. 

A man who is humble enough to always learn from everything, everyone, everytime is the winner. While on the other hand, the one who refuse to learn and let the wind blows will gain a little percentage of this opportunities.

So yes, age does matter to character. But, what really matters is the humble heart to always learn. 

That makes a young fellow, can even more mature than an old childish man.

CEO Speaks, Bari Hamami, PT Trakindo Utama

JWW, October 4th 2012

CEO Speaks presenting Bari Hamami, CEO of PT Trakindo Utama, son of the Founder of Trakindo itself, AHK Hamami. Trakindo is the authorized dealer in Indonesia of Caterpillar products.

One that quite interesting is, I asked him a question during the Q&A session:

"Has or will Trakindo build its own machine?"

A quite simple question, but I'm sure I was representing the absolute dream of fellow Indonesian

He answered: 

"Yes we did! And it was super cool!! Back in 1983 Trakindo was trying to build a small tracktor with all of its Indonesian engineers resources. We build it and we sold it. But customer never cameback. We failed to create aftersell services, spareparts and those kind of things. Don't ever dream to build and sell your own product if the environment is not allowed you to. Especially when GOVERNMENT is not supporting you. Well, we still have that tracktor in our factory in Pulogadung. We keep it there. Not as a reminder of our failure, but as a spirit that one day we will get there."

I fully support his answer. I am thinking about companies like Huawei or ZTE, Chinese Telecommunication Vendor, which happen have a lot of support from their Government. They are rapidly growing! Seriously! Even beat the mature western companies. 

I also thinking about my former company, which a local Telecommuniation vendor. We were hit so bad because Government at that time promise to publish policy that require every companies in Indonesia to use more percentage of local made products. But the policy was never published, and many local companies were in pain. Only several could survive. 

Government play important role in local industries. Honestly, very important! I wonder about Mahatma Gandhi phylosophy to made-use-utilize India's own-country products. I believe that's what happens in USA. They are livin the Gandhi's phylosophy since long long time ago. They produce for themselves, and they consume for themselves. And they export the innovations to the world. 

Well, Indonesia should do the same thing. At least starts with me. My beautiful brain is rest too much. It's time for learn, invent and be creative. So help me God.

Inheritance Cost

I have this ONE BIG CRAZY IDEA. I suggest that every companies in the world put another cost in their cash flow calculation. That cost will be called:

Inheritance Cost. 

It is simply a cost for Next Generation spending. Cost for plant new trees, prepare new land, and growth new resources. This cost should be allocated, 1% from EBI (Earnings Before Interest) each year.

Several options to handle this cost is:

1. Companies themselves held green activities to renew/replant the resources they took from the Earth.
2. Transferred the cost to NGOs or UN organizations.

It is not a rule. It is simply and understanding that our children deserve best resources.

To Play Safe, This Is Not a Game

Sometimes people forget to play safe. They think that everything they work on is a game. And because people more like games rather than serious life and work, thus, sometimes the important thing which need serious attention will be neglected for people's fun.

I remember I played very safe when I attended UMPTN in 2001. I believe that was not a game. I read everything, I wanted to understand everything, and everything which can support me through this national exam. I played really safe. And I did it. I 100% worked on it.

Unfortunately, until now, like other people do, sometimes I forget about it. To play really safe in serious in doing my Job. Every job, every task, anything I should do it seriously and safe actually.

Then come up another question, if all things were done very seriously, would us be very stressful? Could we live for another day if we hold that way of thinking? The answer is, in my opinion:

Yes, we will be very stressful. But it can not be a reason so we neglected other importances through our job.

And so, we should be serious and play safe in everything we do. I don't know if I can do this, but at least I have a thought like this as the start.

Ganbate!