We often see the news comparing GDP between countries. These GDPs are usually measured in constant USD or current USD. While these GDP measures are useful for comparing economic power (not the best vocab to use? Not sure what’s better tho), they are not very useful to compare standard of living. That’s because price level in one country is different than other countries. While Indonesian GDP is smaller than Australia if we measure it with current USD, Indonesian GDP is actually bigger if measured with GDP PPP.
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. Bumbu kacang ini sungguh versatile karena bisa dicampur apa aja. Dikasih sayur, bisa. Kasih gorengan, enak. Nasi uduk, hayu. Buat bumbu ayam bakar, ya bisa (alias jadi sate).
Chili is one of the most important commodities in Indonesia. Indonesians love chili. Even while studying abroad, I still bought sambal because chili is just that good. It’s not only vital in various Indonesian dishes but also contains very high levels of vitamin C!
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)
This post is created to quickly demonstrate one of the possible answer of question 4 of tutorial 1 of ECON3102. I chose to use r’s WDI to show it but any other software and any other source of data can be used obviously. The reason why I use WDI is because it is convinient and easy to show some graph. If we use World Development Indicators we don’t even need to download it. Just use its graph function which is super convinient.
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.
In my previous post, I wrote about my first-ever switch to a mechanical keyboard. My last non-mechanical keyboard was the Logitech MX Keys, which I bought for work from home. In that post I also described my journey to the Razer Huntsman, a keyboard that’s mechanical but technically optical.
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. That is true even when Indonesian domestic sugar price is consistently higher if we compared to International market1.
Twitter is currently buzzing because of this post by BEM UI (the Student Executive Board of the University of Indonesia):
Among the replies, several were interesting, essentially questioning BEM UI’s legitimacy in representing all UI students’ views. Some said BEM UI should not be used as a political tool. Others even attacked the chairperson and took issue with the fact that the BEM UI chair is a member of HMI (Islamic Students Association).
I finally got the time to watch this excellent lecture by Professor Keyu Jin from LSE. She talked about techno-nationalism and discuss whether it’s good or bad. Her discssion is quite detailed in that she started with the basic: why the high-tech economy is different.