Old Economic Book

This old book looks good. Do you believe that this book is printed in 1967? even nowadays book is not using hardcover anymore. Although I forgot to take picture inside the book. But i can tell you that printed content is good quality.

Not only because the physical condition but the book "Modern Economics" subject is still relevant for these days.

Deform papaya tree

Yes..this is quite strange for a papaya tree. A combination of purposed forming and the lack nutrition of soil considering that the soil  have a lot of mineral material. So they growth with lack of nutrition for plants (especially for fruit plants). This place is my hometown.

Rare Pineapple Tree

Have you seen the Pineapple Tree? And this is different kind..the one that not has the barb on the leaf. And found it in village called Wasuponda, Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Wasuponda means the pineapple that it can grow on the rock. Beacuse of that they using it as village symbol. And they will come mostly by their self, rare, not knowing when or when will they grow. Because of that the region isn't known to produce a large number of this fruit. The village is well known as buffer zone for the region of Sorowako. Sorowako is the well known as INCO operated to mine nickel.

Idol Group JKT48

This young Idol Group is unbelievable. They are so energetic and full of passion about their work. Singing, dancing, and theatrical play are their main performance. Yes the group is JKT48. The sister group of AKB48 from Japan. JKT48 is from Jakarta Indonesia following the success of their sister group AKB48 in Japan. The JKT48 is more likely to become Idol Group, Idol concept which are Idol that you can meet everyday, close and being loved by their fans. So the one who Idolize the member of the Idol Group can be seeing the improvement of their Idol trough their performance. Although that the concept is come from Japan, but the management in Indonesia always try to collaborate with the culture of Indonesia. More over that recently they have become an icon to promote tourism destination in Indonesia.

This is one of the reason why I like them, 4 different languages capability from each member.

One of their live performance:



Music Video Digest:


Credit for uploader.

Further source: www.jkt48.com

Paddy rice fields as common village scenery

Paddy rice fields as common village scenery in Indonesia especially in West Java. We can see in the picture is the most happen scene where a lot of fields are about ready to plant paddy rice. So this is very fresh and natural photos given by my friend. There are several coconut trees and other plantation as well. Nice for sightseeing.

The motorcycle service and seller on the big street

My country is affected by the increase or the high price of oil. So the transportation are not really good enough to support their movement because the fee is not efficient because of the gas price and not to comfy. So the best one to gain efficiency is by using motorcycle. And the result is A LOT OF MOTORCYCLE on the road.

This trend accompany the raise business to support the motorcycle. The business are:

-Motorcycle wash

-Selling helmet and motorcycle accessories

-Retail gas

-Fixing puncture tire services (by patching the hole, usually because of nail that lying on the street)

-Body sticker

-Vehicle Plate Number modifying

and others

So the question is .. to become much closer to customer (motorcycle rider) as one of the 'P' factor of marketing mix where is the best place for the business?

On the street/road off course where the motorcycle passing around come and go.

So these are the photos explain about the place or the location.

This is the body sticker services, which is the service for add some plain strong and good quality sticker to cover the body as function to cover scratch, marks, protection. We can see in this photo the costumer wants a white body.

This is patching the hole of a puncture tire service. Beside that we can add our tire air pressure if low or not match with the tire standard air pressure.

This booth is selling the glove or other small part accessories for the motorcycle rider. We can see the blue tent in the far back that I already discuss in http://camerauser.blogspot.com/2012/06/street-barber-under-big-tree.html

Street Barber Under The Big Tree

Any idea what or why is this tent about?
Yes this is the place where the people who want to haircut go to. This tent is called in my country as "Cukur Dibawah Pohon Rindang" or "Cukur DPR" or in english we can say Under The Tree Barber Place.

Most of this kind barber is placed in the side of big street which have a big tree (using the green are not the pedestrian). In this street where the photo taken there several who open the business, so it becoming rivalry. This kind of barber has been operate years. But why this kind of barber? These are several excuse:
1. Because is comfy under the tree, not hot, windy, but off course rain is unacceptable.
2.This kind of barber is saving our budget. So this is very economical. The price range around half to 0,8 us dollar. Remember that this is not using particular place like barber shop.
3.The barber man is experience too. Can handle many haircut style. So it is not different with other common barber shop.

Actually i never use this kind barber service..but maybe someday :)