The total land area of Indonesia is around 1,919,440 sq km from Sabang to Merauke, with Jakarta is a capital city. Population of Indonesia is around 234,893,453. Javanese comprise 45% of the population; Sudanese, 14%; Madurese, 7.5%; others, 26%.
Jakarta as a capital city of Indonesia had population around 9.3 million inhabitants.
Religion around the Indonesia, 88% Muslims, 8% Christians, and 2% Hindus and Buddhists.
Indonesia has a republic government with official language is Indonesian. Indonesia has a tropical climate. Summers are hot and dry with heavy rains during the monsoons.
Units of measure and electricity: Indonesia follows the metric system of measurement and the official electricity unit is 220V, 50 Hz.
Time Zone: Indonesian has three time zones: GMT + 7, GMT + 8 and GMT + 9
Travel documents required: Nationals of specified countries do not require a visa for a stated number of days.
The Indonesian economy was the hardest hit by the Asian Financial Crisis, and recovery has been slow. Indonesia’s major industries include petroleum and natural gas, textiles, timber, mining, coffee, rubber, tin, copper, rice and palm oil.
Living in Jakarta is 80% Heaven and 20% Hell. For expatriate who working in Jakarta leaving in Jakarta 100% like leaving in Heaven. Why?
Don't ask why now. But after sometimes, you probably will say "that's true leaving in Jakarta is like leaving in Heaven for us as an expatriate"
Working in Jakarta you can have maid, driver, baby sitter, cook, guard, gardener, etc. At home or back to your country you never have such of thing you have while you working in Jakarta.
Before you start to say how lovely leaving in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the first time you probably need to know there is stage different experience for the a few months after you arrived in Jakarta
STAGES OF JAKARTA LIFE:
There are four different stages of variable length experienced by everybody living in Jakarta for twelve months or more.
(a) The Excitement Stage
(b) The Let-Down Stage
(c) The Consolidation Stage
(d) The Departure Stage
Each stage has its own problems and benefits. An understanding of these stages will help you to anticipate problems, to understand why these problems arise and to cope better with any difficulties that do occur.
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Fight With Culture Shock, How To Do It
Immigrate or moving from other country to another country have the ability to positively confront the obstacles of a new environment. Majority of individuals and families that some ways to combat stress produced by culture shock.
Here might be can help you to solve a problem or fight with a culture schock in a new environment:
- You and your family relationships member(specially between husband and wife, parents & kids)need to pay attention and support each other, specially at work. If you pay attention and support each other as a family member in a new environment, make you easy to solve a problem specially in difficult times.
- Learn to allow family member to feel sad about the things that have left behind: like family, friends, toys, daily activity, etc.
- Focus the power getting through the transition. By learn to accept the new country with support each other (family member) to recognize the sorrow of leaving old country to a new country.
- If you could find ways to live with the things that don't satisfy you 100%, by establish simple goals and evaluate progress.
- If you could follow your ambitions and continue your plans for the future that's one option to maintain confidence in yourself.
- If you could develop your hobby in the new area as soon as posible after you settle with house, car, children's school, work,etc. Do it now!
- Always remember the good things you already have done before. Specially your daily attitute!
- Never forget, there are always resources that you can do. As long as you want!
- The important key is "be patient". Why? Because the act of migrating is a process of adaptation to new situation, that you never know before. The process will take some time.
- Be easy on yourself! Try to learn to be constructive. If you encounter an unfavorable environment, don't put yourself in that position again.
- If can't do it, don't try too hard! Why? Don't push yourself to hard. If you try to hard you will get frustration.
- Try to maintain contact with your ethnic groups. This will give you a feeling of belonging and you will reduce your feelings of loneliness and alienation
- Maintain contact with the new culture. Learn the language. Volunteer in community activities that allow you to practice the language that you are learning. This will help you feel less stress about language and useful at the same time.
- Take the exercise! Like:swim, tennis, golf, horse riding or an aerobics class, etc. A regular form of physical activity in your routine. This will help combat the sadness and loneliness in a constructive manner. You can meet people and make a new friends!
- To passing periods of stress you can do relaxation and meditation. Relaxation and meditation are proven to be very positive.
- Look for help, if you feel stressed! Always someone or some service available to help you. Check it out with your home doctor information, local service community or get the information services. Read More..
Here might be can help you to solve a problem or fight with a culture schock in a new environment:
- You and your family relationships member(specially between husband and wife, parents & kids)need to pay attention and support each other, specially at work. If you pay attention and support each other as a family member in a new environment, make you easy to solve a problem specially in difficult times.
- Learn to allow family member to feel sad about the things that have left behind: like family, friends, toys, daily activity, etc.
- Focus the power getting through the transition. By learn to accept the new country with support each other (family member) to recognize the sorrow of leaving old country to a new country.
- If you could find ways to live with the things that don't satisfy you 100%, by establish simple goals and evaluate progress.
- If you could follow your ambitions and continue your plans for the future that's one option to maintain confidence in yourself.
- If you could develop your hobby in the new area as soon as posible after you settle with house, car, children's school, work,etc. Do it now!
- Always remember the good things you already have done before. Specially your daily attitute!
- Never forget, there are always resources that you can do. As long as you want!
- The important key is "be patient". Why? Because the act of migrating is a process of adaptation to new situation, that you never know before. The process will take some time.
- Be easy on yourself! Try to learn to be constructive. If you encounter an unfavorable environment, don't put yourself in that position again.
- If can't do it, don't try too hard! Why? Don't push yourself to hard. If you try to hard you will get frustration.
- Try to maintain contact with your ethnic groups. This will give you a feeling of belonging and you will reduce your feelings of loneliness and alienation
- Maintain contact with the new culture. Learn the language. Volunteer in community activities that allow you to practice the language that you are learning. This will help you feel less stress about language and useful at the same time.
- Take the exercise! Like:swim, tennis, golf, horse riding or an aerobics class, etc. A regular form of physical activity in your routine. This will help combat the sadness and loneliness in a constructive manner. You can meet people and make a new friends!
- To passing periods of stress you can do relaxation and meditation. Relaxation and meditation are proven to be very positive.
- Look for help, if you feel stressed! Always someone or some service available to help you. Check it out with your home doctor information, local service community or get the information services. Read More..
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Do I Get This From The Cigarette?
Lot's of people came and asking the question,
"Do I Sick Get From The Cigarette?
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"Do I Sick Get From The Cigarette?
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