This questionnaire should help you clarify your thoughts on how to start planning a web site that fits your business or personal needs.
Start up business in Indonesia
This questionnaire should enable Wivvies to get a clear image of what type of business you have and what intentions you have doing business in Indonesia.
By having this information, we should be able to give you some help about how to address the challenges of starting up in Indonesia.
What do you need to do in order to get a web site created by Wivvies
Michael Lundager
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 10:35
Wivvies use a few basic rules when they create web pages for people / organizations / companies and these rules are pretty much the same each time.
Wivvies sets up the framework so the client can append the contents to the web page themselves from start and in the future. Wivvies has this policy in order to avoid misunderstand details about the contents and in order to lower the overall cost for the client.
This chapter is not about nerdy technology but more about philosophy – after 28 years in the software business, I am convinced that productivity and efficiency in developing IT systems is more a question about:
Wivvies mainly does programming and graphical work, but actually a large part of my work time is spent creating ideas and bundling business plans to these ideas. Sometimes the ideas I work with are my own and sometimes I help somebody else developing their ideas.
If you look at other articles from the business and Indonesia chapter you will also notice that Wivvies is able to help carrying out business initiations in Indonesia. The business plans are presented either by web pages, word and excel documents, powerpoint presentations or Flash presentations.
Wivvies has just made a new web site for the part of Danida, Indonesia that works with the Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Home Work, Ministry of Environment and National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia.
The goal for the web site is to distribute documents, reports, minutes of meetings, tenders and news to people involved in these projects.
Doing business deals in Indonesia has a different feel than in the West. In principle it is the same fundamental things you are doing: Selling or buying services or products, making contracts or any other sort of normal transaction.
Indonesia is full of people that will do anything to get a job – "anything" at that also means that you as the employer has to be extra careful checking people's credentials.
This is why the real test should be placed directly in the job interview. I work with a few simple rules when recruiting:
First of all, with the current infrastructure and communication policies in Indonesia, you will not get the correct Internet line, but you can optimize the possibilities to get a good line.
Hopefully, I will be able to rewrite this article in a few months or years and paint or prettier picture, but I personally doubt it.
Indonesia is not well developed when it comes to fiber optic cables, these cables are usually present in the urban centers and usually they are installed along major roads.
This article is not the absolute true. Jakarta is vast and the possibilities are endless and that means I can only scratch the surface of this topic in this article.
The traffic situation influences these decisions heavily; you have to take into account the employees have to be able to reach the workplace within reasonable traveling time.
You also have to take into account that if your company is dependent on a lot of material from and to seaports, airports or even the main roads.
I have developed and made strategic decisions about web sites for quite some time and here are the 10 most fundamental issues of web site development today that I can think of, maybe you have other just as savvy commandments as these, but please take a good look at my commandments.
Being an expat in Indonesia is not cheap; there are many expenses involved that Westerners usually do not take into account like: Education for children, health insurance, security factors finding a house, travel expenses etc.
Here are the most necessary key figures for the Jakarta area:
One child in private international school: USD 25.000 a year, this does not include field trips and other connected expenses.
Housing in Jakarta varies from USD 1.200 to 5.000 a month depending on area and quality of apartment/house.
Indonesia was the first country in the world to publish CSR guidelines (Corperate Social Responsibility), that does not mean that the salary level is not competitive - it just means that employees expect to be treated with respect.
The base salaries in Indonesia can be seen in the table below, but please be aware of the fact that these are Jakarta salaries and these are higher than all other Indonesian locations.
Please also notice the difference between high and low salary levels - the wealth distribution in Indonesia is very uneven.
