Dr. Ir. Dewi Tamara, MM., MS. is the Deputy of Executive MM Program in Binus Business School. Prior to join Bina Nusantara on 2009, she is professional in finance division in French (PT Indokomas Buana Perkasa) and Belgium company (PT Pauwels Trafo Asia). She got her master degree from Universitas Indonesia and Toulouse Business School. Until 2015 she produced more than twenty case studies from various Indonesian companies.
On August 17, 2009, William Tanuwijaya and Leontinus Alpha Edison two close friend that worked together to achieve their dream, officially launched the first online platform shop called Tokopedia. Tokopedia held an icon of green owl with big eyes, the owl was the symbol of wisdom and had a great vision into every direction. It means that Tokopedia had holistic point of view for their business start from the company itself, the buyers and the sellers.
At that time, Internet was forecasted to be the new era of commerce since its inception in the beginning of 2000. Internet development in Indonesia continues to increase in 2013 (Exhibit 1), there were 74.6 million Internet users in Indonesia (the highest in Southeast Asia), a rising up 22 percent from a year earlier. This figure is expected to exceed 100 million in 2015 (Marketeers, 2014). ebay, Amazon, Alibaba were the e-commerce company that already stable worldwide while in Indonesia the online shop was a new things. The current Internet-based commercial transaction (e-commerce) is an essential element in the business life. With the number of internet users that is about 30% of the total population of Indonesia, Indonesian e-commerce market has a high potential in the future.
Eight years later, Tokopedia was known as the biggest e-commerce platform in Indonesia with thousands of tenants or retails and Tokopedia announced funding of US$100 million from SoftBank and Seqouia Capital (techinasia.com, 2014). The two founders, William and Leon were known as the former electronic entrepreneurs that went beyond their time. This case study explores or explains the factors that made Tokopedia big as we know today . This case study focuses on five entrepreneurial mindset such as creativitiy, collaboration, direction, coordination and delegation that the two founders did along with the growth of Tokopedia.
The Raid is a very special movie in Indonesian history. It reached more than 1,8 million people commercially, and it traveled to some prestigious international film festivals. The movie was also screened in commercial cinema in US, Korea, Japan, U.K, and other countries. Surely, the film breaks boundaries of the myth that always highlight the dichotomy between commercial films and art films. The film also achieved higher level of theatrical release abroad.
The case study will explore the Why and the How this movie became successful by discussing the process of its production, distribution, and exhibition.
It had been more than 10 years since PT. Bursa Berjangka Jakarta (BBJ) was established in 1990. So many expectations was envisioned upon them, hence the 10 years time was a relatively short to do its best to support the national economy. Under a new management team with Managing Director Made Soekarwo, former Bureau Chief of BAPPEBTI, Director Bihar Sakti Wibowo, Managing Director of PT Jalatama Artha Berjangka, and Director Roy Sembel, academics, who were appointed in the annual general meeting of shareholders (RUPS) in June 23, 2010, JFX immediately move forward and fast.
On Asian crisis 1998, the palm owner and businessman still could face the crisis smugly. The base price of crude palm oil (CPO) for one fresh stem of oil palm (tandan buah segar) was USD 600 per ton, but with the exchange rate of Rp 16.000 per 1 USD, the producers were quite blessed from the crisis condition. With the average area owneship was at minimum 2,5 hectare each farmers with the output of 2 tons per hectare crude palm oil, the farmers gained at least USD 12.000 (2,5 hectare x 2 tons x USD 600).
The reason was the demand of CPO was still high. Even in China, although it was in Asian region, its economic was growing. It happened also in India. In Europe, countries like Germany and Netherlands were consumers of crude palm oil originated from Indonesia and Malaysia. It was very much affected positively the farmers and the local economic.
A very different story came up on crisis on September 2008. The price of CPO declined and so was the demand. The producers were on the edge of the egg. A lot of TBS were left unharvested by the farmers because the price went down to Rp 300 per kg from Rp 1.200-1.400. Big players in Indonesia and Malaysia were oversupplied. The firms were to hold on their expansion or to hold the planting.
The crude palm oil was now a disaster. If before it was a green gold, now it was a dead card. Victims were tumbling down. Now, could the price shine again on the next year? A lot of people depended on bio fuel programs in most countries as an anchor price. It that was the case, the CPO price would be better. The problem was the oil price was on the bullish and made the bio fuel was more expensive than the fuel.
Now the case questions were what the producers should do? What government should do? What were the real threats on this business? How could we control the prices? How could we adjust with macroeconomics environment? If Indonesia had a comparative advantage for area of plantation, would it be still comparative advantage or became big liabilities? Why Indonesia did not start to develop the downstream crude palm oil industry?
It’s been 7 years since 2004, but Law proposition (Rancangan Undang-Undang) about Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS) had not yet been completed. This bill was a mandate from UU No. 40/2004 about Sistem Jaminan Sosial Nasional (SJSN), ratified by (former) President Megawati Soekarnoputri. If the law proposition about BPJS was completed, this would become a holding institution that administered four state-owned insurances, which consisted of health insurances, safety insurances, pension insurances and life insurances.
This settlement was collided with oppositions based on the legal entity form of BPJS, whether these four BUMN insurances: PT Jamsostek, PT Asuransi Kesehatan Indonesia, PT Asuransi Sosial Angkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesia and PT Dana Tabungan dan Asuransi Pegawai Negeri would be merged. In one hand, the constraint in terms of legislation was the unfinished harmonization of several regulations such as UU No. 3/1992 about Jamsostek and UU No. 11/1992 about Pension Fund. Pension Fund was still voluntary and not mandatory. Some laws were still overlapping and burdensome to employers. On the other hand, not all companies provided pension insurances for employees and solely relied on Jamsostek.
On October 2010, PT Jamsostek resisted the merger of four State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) insurances into one Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS). Four BUMN insurances had differences from characteristics of participants, programs, and most importantly was the difference in how each company covered risk exposures such as market risk and liquidity risk.