LG: 3% marketshare in Indonesian mobile market
According to
detik.com, LG Electronics has penetrated 3% of Indonesian mobile phone market. "The share is small, but (at least) we are stable", said David Tjokro, Marketing Director of PT. LG Electronics Indonesia.
The market is very though although Indonesian market with more than 180 million potential mobile subscribers (of 230 million Indonesians) is seen very lucrative. Kim Weon Dae, President Director of PT. LG Electronics Indonesia had talked about 15% market share in 2012 according to
pontianakpost.com. They will launch 30 new phones, one of them is the brand new Optimus 3D. This phone has 3D screen, which enable customer to enjoy 3D without any 3D googles. Kim claimed that it is still a unique product which other vendor doesn't have. This year LG ELectronics is targetting 6% share, a significant jump from 3% present market share.
Moreover LG Electronics is trying to "bundle" its mobile products with home appliances like its washing machine. The customer can "detect" her washing machine's problem herself, thanks to LG's Android mobile technology.
Last year LG has sold 22 million phones with sales value 23 trillion rupiahs (2.5 billion USD).
Indonesia's Nanotechnology Center
Indonesia will have a nanotechnology research center, said Dedy Mulyadi of the Ministry of Industry as quoted by
detik.com. The ministry has setup a roadmap for 15 years research and development in nanotechnology.
Indonesia has abundant natural resources like silica sand. The research should improve Indonesian industrial performance.
The plan will be discussed after the presidential election.
Labels: Indonesia, nanotechnology
ICR failed in Indonesian Election
An Indonesian news portal
article criticized the decision to choose Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) as a method to report the counts result from regional level to the central data center in Jakarta. It is reported that M. Shalahuddien of Indonesia Security Incident Responses Team on Internet Infrastructure (ID-SIRTII) mentioned some reason why this decision was already in the beginning criticized from many parties. With ICR the reports which are written by hand would be scanned and the characters would be recognized and stored automatically as digital data. However, given the fact that Indonesians have various style ofhand writings (even though the characters are Latin ones), the failure rate could be very high. Not yet accounted is that the power availability in many areas in Indonesia is not stable. It is said that 500 regional chapters of the Election Comittee were giving up already with their tired operators. As the result, the reporting is running very slow than expected.
This is the example how the clarity of the concept may influence the IT implementation.
The Election was held on April 9, in which 11,000 candidates fought for 550 seats in Indonesian parliament. Being voted also were regional representatives (similar with Senator in the US) and the provincial parliament legislatures.
Labels: election, ICR, Indonesia, IT
