I think this is more of the case. I used to live around the described neighborhood. It was an area with a notorious reputation as 'ghetto' where certain ethnic of immigrants live.
I personally have no problem other than the casual nuisance and I have positive experience overall during my stay over there for a couple of years.
The founder of the supermarket/umbrella foundation seems to have the similar background as the people live in the area. Thus, I think he has insight on what the community needs and how to help them.
Reading DEI related threats, it's interesting that this phenomena happened in the US which impacting US institutions/companies.
From the outside looking in, it kind of a consequence of treating the symptom which is not the permanent solution. The actual root cause of the bug is still not yet addressed, hence why you see the side effect of the bug fix.
The root cause is multi faceted ofc, but some of them we could already identify. Economical inequality, social mobility which correlates with the given opportunity along the way. Once this fixed, the opportunity given to each individual will be fairer.
I think pretty much Europe + Africa + LatAm + Asia (minus East Asia) is using WhatsApp as defacto personal/work/business communication platform. Even in govt. domain.
IG is also still the top social media as well globally.
super interesting. that's pretty much align with brute force memorization that's emphasized in many asian countries.
What's your advice in the self-learning prerequisites knowledge/materials before being able to digest those books?
My last math course was calculus I and II back in first year uni 15 years ago as well as stats I and II on my second year (which I completely bamboozled and forgot the material as soon as I barely pass the class).
I like the idea, which is work for autodidact/professional who want to master their craftmanship. There is always something to learn. By giving mastery path as a guide would help on self-improvement.
We've seen it in Pluralsight or FreecodeCamp where they made the paths for their users. Now, if we can turn it around by making it crowd sourced and to a wider skills, that'd be awesome.
This rings bell to me and I tried to applied it myself. "The importance of fundamentals". Some of the hard parts are be honest to myself and admitting it, then re learn everything from scratch. I used to be able to get away with "instinct" but fundamental theory/knowledge is important too.
Pete Carroll preach about it and emphasize it in his team. Elon Musk also talked about the usefulness of sound fundamentals when it comes to learn about any fields of knowledge.
As an Indonesian, I'll give some context and nuance around the burning.
1. Who did the burning? mostly It is CORPORATIONs that owned massive chunks of lands (which some of the case these lands overlap with National Park territories).
The rest is small land owners (which also cover big areas if you sum it). These companies though have a strong lobby in the government across layers, whether it is in the national level or province level.
FYI, many of the companies are foreign ones including Singapore companies and Malaysian companies.
2. Why did the government not make it illegal to burn land?
There are several factors. Actually the amount of land that CAN BE burnt is limited. However the government do not strictly enforce it, because you know, it's Indonesian government.
So a step back, how come the government allow people to burn land in the first place? There is an old local bill (in Borneo area) that protect land owner to burn land. This date back
to an old tradition that in Borneo, in order to farm you gotta burn the land first because of the nature of the peat land itself. I agree that in 2015, there should be a solution in
making a farmland productive without even to burn it. This bill is not yet overruled and even so, being abused by corps to justified the act.
3. Another reason why there is almost no response from the Indonesian government is that the burning happened only in Sumatra and Borneo to the (North)West side (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand).
For better or worse, Java island doesn't get the haze at all, thus many politicians can't relate how bad it is actually.
What is sad is that it is the epitome of capitalism, that we can't do much about it. Palm oil is used everywhere and as long as there is a demand, supply will be there too.
Hey man, are you by any chance still staying in The Netherlands in the meantime? would love to hear more of your story! FYI, I live in Amsterdam currently.
I personally have no problem other than the casual nuisance and I have positive experience overall during my stay over there for a couple of years.
The founder of the supermarket/umbrella foundation seems to have the similar background as the people live in the area. Thus, I think he has insight on what the community needs and how to help them.