Posted in English on Jul 28th, 2010
Speech by Anindya Novyan Bakrie
Founder and Chairman, The Bakrie Center Foundation
At the launch of the Bakrie Chair for Southeast Asian Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC.
Mr Douglas Paal, Vice-President,
Staff of the Carnegie Endowment,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen
One of the pleasures of speaking to an Indonesian, particularly a Javanese, is that one [...]
Posted in English on Jun 23rd, 2010
By Anindya Bakrie
Article in The Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama’s third postponement of a visit to Indonesia and Australia this month is understandable. American voters are his primary constituency, and many would have been aghast had he decided to leave on a foreign tour when the Gulf Coast faces the worst [...]
Posted in English on Apr 7th, 2010
By: Anindya N. Bakrie, Vice President of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin Indonesia).
When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao makes his first trip to Indonesia this April, he will beat US President Barack Obama (who has postponed his March trip to June) to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) largest country. Premier [...]
Posted in English on Apr 7th, 2009
At present, social media in Indonesia is growing rapidly. The large part of our youth, especially those who live in major cities, actively use the internet to communicate, conduct their activities, and get the latest information. One medium which is rapidly developing is social media, for example Facebook, Twitter, blogs and so forth.
I believe that [...]
Posted in English on Apr 5th, 2009
I just came back from a visit to Rancamalang Village in Tangerang, Banten, on Thursday, 25 March, 2010. This village is located near the Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) housing complex. Even though it is only about 6 km or about fifteen minutes away, the condition of this village is markedly different from that of the [...]
Posted in English on Dec 20th, 2008
This night I received a special guest, namely participants on a study trip from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) in California, United States. Stanford GSB is where I obtained my Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in 2001.
While studying in the MBA program I also minored in a Global Management Program. I was [...]
Posted in English on Sep 12th, 2008
Three days ago our family received an unexpected invitation from the residents of four villages which were affected by the mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, to attend an event for breaking the fast and listening to a reflective speech with Emha Ainun Nadjib, who is better known as Cak Nun, a cultural expert and well-liked religious [...]
