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Hari ini saya sarapan gado-gado. Menurut saya, gado-gado (dan bumbu kacang secara umum) adalah sebuah fenomena yang luar biasa. Meskipun kacang pertama kali diperkenalkan oleh Portugis yang dibawa dari Mexico, Masyarakat Indonesialah yang pertama kali membuat bumbu kacang.

Finally I got to upgrade my stata to Stata 17! I was looking forward to using Stata in my Python environment. This post is just me trying a PPML package (Stata, not the USITC one)

It has been a while since i last wrote about COVID-19. Today i’d like to check out Indonesia’s statistic on COVID-19, especially since it seem to get worse these days, unfortunately, and so many people talked about possibility of the government intentionally undertest to push down new cases at the cost of human lives.

Sugar Prices Sugar is one of the most important commodity in Indonesia. Sugar consumption in Indonesia is high. In 2018, Indonesian consumption of sugar reached 26.34 kg per capita, much higher than India, Vietnam and The Philippines1.

Just a bit of stats on RCEP. To connect it a bit with the Global Value Chain, I am using Stage of Production (SoP) UNCTAD: .dataframe tbody tr th:only-of-type { vertical-align: middle; } .

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine, Deasy Pane from Bappenas, invited me for a discussion about Indonesia’s trade and investment situation policy. Indeed, that’s the beauty of zoom right?

Indonesia has been always famed for its lack of depth and innovation in its financial market. Banks are powerful and aim mostly at consumer banking. Indeed, the role of foreign investment is quite central to Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s development policy, from building infrastructures and the same-price gasoline policy, both relies on SOE’s corporate bonds, to attracting FDI to provide jobs.

This morning, as usual, I prepared breakfast, did the dishes, all while listening to a podcast. One of my favorite, Babbage aired the recent development of COVID-19, including the decreasing death rate across the world.