Cheap Car (Tata Nano) is that a solution?

Cheap car will be marketed in Indonesia next year. With price Rp. 23 million per unit, and the surprise is the car produced by India, which is developing countries same with Indonesia, but they can produce cheap cars with a good quality and meet safety standards. I have not even saw the car directly (just from the photo), but my opinion that car was good in the display. Tata Nano (the car) using the engine 33 horse power, two-cylinder 624 cc (petrol), which paired with the CVT transmission or 5-speed manual. To follow and diesel versions. Four-passenger car requires five liters of petrol for 100 km distance. Yeah i think it is enough for passenger cars with 4 people.

But, with the car is cheaper, more and more people will use private cars to travel, and indeed the other will reduce the number of motorcycles.



As more people use private cars on the road, the road is jammed. If we compare with a motorcycle that needs space about 1x2 m 2 and if the passenger car will be 2-3 times greater, may use the car will be able to reduce congestion if the vehicle 4 people move to 1 this mini-car. So, the motor is reduced and the use of private cars is not too much. But who can ensure that the 4 people who use motorcycles will move to 1 this mini car. May also be a motorcycle driver who will buy a unit of the car and change into a mini car because the price is cheap, and if this thought in mind by all the motorcycle road we will be more traffic jams and traffic jams.

What can the government do to overcome this? I think, it is very wrong if the government allows entry of cheap cars to Indonesia, because the need of transportation Indonesia at this time is the bottleneck problem, the damaged roads, road classification system that distracted and not in accordance with the regulations, road safety and public mass transportation system. Indonesian government should be more able to weigh the investment is good for our development, not home to receive. Our policy in terms of ownership of a motorcycle or private cars can support the increase in private vehicle ownership that ultimately will cause problems later in the day in our streets. Why can not we emulate Singapore which has a policy that private car ownership for citizen is difficult, so that the Singapore government not be with the number of vehicles that have travel on the road.

Therefore, the government should be involved more practitioners who independent in determining the policies that will affect the condition of Indonesia's future. We can not steadily build roads to meet the demand, because the limitation of our funds and also space to build the road is also limited.

But it's just my personal thoughts, thought there might be others that facilitate investment in the cheaper car is one of our transportation problem-solving. Let's see ..

What a Crazy World

The world is crazy..have you know Natalie Dylan?, she is 22 year old San Diego woman who already hold a B.S. in women’s studies, she plan to continue her study, but she does not have enough financial to do her study plan. she just an ordinary woman, but she have a crazy or a strange way to get financial solution for her study, she is selling her virginity online. Asked about her decision and doubters, Dylan replied, "We live in a capitalist society. Why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?". She following her sister who sold her virginity to fulfill her financial life. Natialie dylan will sell her virginity for between $1 million and $3.8 million..it’s a big money. She also insist that the auction is only for one night stand, not for a relationship.

On the heels of a recent report that the bidding for Natalie Dylan’s virginity is now at $3.7 million, Natalie chatted exclusively with Scandalist about the truth behind her sensational auction.

The bids keep going up and up, and Natalie will continue to hold out until “it all dies down.”

“Why would I prematurely end something that could be so lucrative?” she asks. She must have been thinking along the same lines when she made the decision to hold out on sex until it really meant something: like $3.8 million.

How the capitalism influence our daily life into a crazy people, thought that anything in a money view, sold anything as long as someone want to pay it. What a crazy world.

So, Natalie Dylan auction and Prosistute, what the different?

Facebook or MySpace, Why Not?

I have read CNN news on January 5th, 2009, about a study that conducted to know negative issues of using MySpace or Facebook for teen life

" Study: Teens on MySpace mention sex, violence "

The study said that 54 percent of teens talk about behaviors such as sex, alcohol use, and violence on the social networking giant MySpace. As we know that we can easily expose many things in this social networking sites, we can upload any photo, showing our feelings and thoughts, and there is no limitation on that. How we know that there is no villain out there who looking for their target. Who knows?

We cannot say that MySpace or Facebook is bad or good, the think is that how we use it for our good. Just like the study (Moreno) said

"It’s really not that MySpace is bad or good. I think the lesson is that it’s a tool, and how you use it determines the kinds of outcome you’re going to get "

Just like the study recommend for the parents that they should watch carefully their teenager in their online lives. They suggest that the parents should create their own MySpace or Facebook account to know the activity of their kids. Another suggestion is that the parents also should know the password of their children account. But i think the second one is not to important and it is privacy of the children. Furthermore they will not like that, isn’t it?

Facebook or MySpace can be used by the parents to know and learn about their children life, hobbies, their favorite, friends, etc.

So I think, we should have a positive thing on this kind of online life. In this global world, anything can happen, so it is good to have your own social networking with the profile you have but you must playing safe on that.

How do you think?

Just Me...

First of all, i would like to introduce my self..My name is IBNI ACHIRUDDIN, but you can call me Beni.., but don’t ask me why my nickname is Beni. I lived in Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan. I work for Local Government in Hulu Sungai Selatan district in Kalimantan Selatan, 130 km from Banjarmasin city. I take my bachelor degree in ITS (Institute Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember) majoring Geodesy Engineering and now i am still doing my Thesis for my Master Degree in AIT (Asian Institute of Technology) Thailand and UGM (Universitas Gajah Mada) Yogyakarta, majoring Transportation Engineering and Management. I have married and have a son (i will write more stories about my family later on).

Actually, i fairly not likes and have no idealism to write, i fairly take less care of anything happen in my life. I thought that all the things happened in life is just god act that not need to concern to much. I know it is not good. Most of people who knows me said that i have no authority in my steps in life. They think i am a kid with a short term thinking..hehe..that’s bad, even in my family.

But start from now, i should try to be a better man, and i start to write anything, i must learn how to have more concern to anything happen in life. Better tries than not at all, right?

"I just want to exist in this digital world"