Muslim World Biz @Jakarta - Travelog Day 4

Friday, 14th September 2012.

As usual, I wake-up at 4:15am, open up my laptop and update the logs :). Then solah and took another sunrise pictures.

Sunrise at Jakarta on Friday Morning

Ini namanya 'Haie' yang melambangkan semangat patriotik
dan juga tempat apa jua demonstrasi diadakan

It is a new refreshing day and our boss seem to be fine after taking a good rest. I when to gym and did do the cycling for 30 minutes and burn lots more calories than the first day :).

While cycling, there was aerobic with instructor and seem it was fun. Just that it was meant for women only :(.

Wira Jakarta - Sudirman

After completed my exercise, went for breakfast and start to replace the lost calories ... hahahaha :).. but honestly, did not eat a lots as usual. I drink juice, yakult (few bottles), and yogurt too. Than, had sandwiches and some buns plus fruits and that's all :)

Exhibit the technologies for high industries

This is our second days of exhibition. We arrive there at 9:30am and starts to open up the booth. As usual, it was a quite day for us. Just a few visitors drop by and there was a contractor asking us about our bunting frame, the price, where do we manufactured it, our desk frame, etc... What!!!! we are exhibiting a solutions, services, software, and hardware for electrical power system.. NOT the frame..... hahahaha... However, for the first half of today, there are two visitors whom like to be our local partners and wish to market our product when there is opportunity related. One of them proposed us to sell our product to the airport management as it have frequent power outage. Hmm... we informed the organizer whom promised to setup the meeting with them... and till the last day, it never happens :(.

The best part, many of exhibitors in Malaysia felt that they are in the wrong exhibition.... hahaha.. as we all showcase a high technologies and for medium to large scale industries.. not for consumers.

Friday prayer

Here in Jakarta (or Indonesia I guess), it is not easy not to perform Friday prayer @ Solah Jumaat. 

They will provide a space and lay out sejadah @ prayer-mat, in an empty space (or hall). Not like us in Malaysia, where we can only perform at certain place approved by the religious agencies or related organization (JAIS, MAIS, etc).

I wish, Malaysia could implement similar. ISLAM is simple and easy and every implementation of it should not be made difficult. And also, the best of the prayer is that the khatib was knowledgeable and it does not have any political link (no condemnation on any site) and the khutbah given was related to our daily life.

Exhibition - the second half of the day.

My team member :)

Friday here in Jakarta is a bit slow. Not many visitors came to the exhibitions. Many of the exhibitors felt the same. Not just us, including the Indonesia. Yesterday is more than today. The people that visit the booth mostly was the other exhibitors whom have nothing to do accept walked around the hall.

Is this my chance?

Quit.. need to walk faster

Still not many visitor

Ini company profil nya bapak.. Kami bisa jual perkakasan tenaga elektrikal

Iranian asking about local homegrown electrical appliances (ECE)

The Indonesian helping Malaysian to sell bird nest from Perak :)

The suresweet guy. Honestly, I have doubt on the product especially on certain non-logical and non-scientific approval.

The gadget boy

More visitors coming after 4pm

The two lovers

The 'Cewek'.. waduuh manis sik

Ending the day

Around 5pm, we start to close our booth despite the exhibition closed at 7pm (some says 9pm). But many high industries like us closed earlier. We did the same as afraid of difficulties in getting the a taxi.

Our nightmare in Jakarta starts after leaving the hall. Many taxi pass by but none stop for us. We wait for almost 1 hour and the area is getting dark (6pm in Jakarta is already like 8pm in Malaysia). Even the police make a jokes at us. He asked us the reason that the taxi does not stop. We were thinking that due to traffic jam, they afraid to get summons but the police (but did not says this to the police.. we just say that we don't know). The police than laugh at us and says because the taxi driver afraid to pick both of us whom is big in size like cow (in malay 'sebabnya mereka khuatir melihat kamu macam lembu sik').. We replied silently 'Cilakak lu polisi, kami udah penat ini dikatanya lembu pula'.. hahahaha

So we decided to take a walk to the other side of the road. Had to take the flyover and it is like climbing a small hill. But it does reduce our waiting time. It took us less than 10 minutes to get a cab and back to our hotel.

Nasi Goreng Gila.

We did not go straight to hotel. Instead, we went for dinner at a stall outside of Restoran Garuda, in front of Sarinah Mall. The name of the stall is Nasi Goreng Gila and I order the specialties @ famous dinner which also the name of the stall. Thinking of what and how it looks like, it is actually the simplest way of cooking, you put everything into the fried rice and there you are, the Nasi Goreng Gila. Simple but I think is quite OK for a person whom at that point was very hungry.. hehehehe...

After finished our meals, went back to our room, take a bath, perform solah and play around with my phone for a while until my eyes starts to close... and that's end of my forth day in Jakarta.

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Muslim World Biz @Jakarta - Travelog Day 3

The Conference day

Morning of the 3rd day (5:40am)

Didn't go to the gym since we need to be there earlier due to unfinished work because of the poor time management of organizer and contractors. After had a heavy breakfast, we move to JCC and this time around, it cost us Rp22k due to no traffic-jam @ macet.

The first design of booth

When we arrived, the security does not allowed us to enter from behind. Well, we were promised to get the tag during dinner but it turns out not. So we need to go to front desk and registered as exhibitor. It seem that both organizer (from Malaysia and Indonesia does seem to have a good communications). I asked for extension from Malaysian and they requested me to request from the other side and when I goes to the side, they requested me to ask from the side and I get bored. After a while, I left and when straight to our booth to setup.

And as usual, the work is not completed yet. Too many plastics, papers, etc.. THEY DID NOT CLEAN UP many booths.

This time, it took us 1 hours to setup the complete booth. And had to use tape to ensure the bunting does not fall down. After a while, we change the setup again.

The first design of booth (my colleague)

The second design of booth (my colleague)

The morning session was quite slow and not many visitor or trade visitors coming. Our boss drop by for a while and then joint the conference. Not feeling well he said due to food poisoning.

The boss :)

Jaz the organizer from Malaysia

The boss and me :)

Lunch time

Aaaa lunch time ... but no one from organizer told us that there was lunch (free) provided. Not just lunch but many events. We were questioning on the agendas and events. There is no announcement or anything to indicate something. But of course, all malaysian are family (1Malaysia), hence we share any information we heard with each other :).
So I went for lunch with representative from Perak Government and meet with few Indonesia which from the Jakarta Chambers of Commerce. Discuss about few things and they first thought that I importing workers from Indonesia as I mentioned 'tenaga' to them until I mentioned the electrical power supply (elektrikal), then they understand and starts to keep quite due to unmatched business... hehehehe

Where is the Indonesian Utility, Transportation, Manufacturing?

Selling cloths too???

For the first day, there are not many visitors. In fact, many others like us feel the same things and until now, we are not clear of the organizer's planning. If we and other manufacturing based or services based company felt that way, it should be fine but rather all the exhibitors including State government of Perak, Melaka, Kelantan, etc and also traders and supplier in food, fashion, and educations felt the same as us too.

Our booth was visited by few asking about the product and it is damn difficult to explain about our product to ensure the Indonesian understand. Here, some of the word should be in english and some should be in malays. For example, Electrical Power System = Sistem Tenaga Elektrikal and so on. Some of visitors confuse of the word Network and they thought that we are either telecommunications company or networking company like Jaring and TMNet. So, the choice of words, they way we explain, and lots of things need to be change. This simple due to that none of visitors are in our industry.

Mr Iqbal... boss friend

However, as time goes by, we have three visitors that may have impact to us or at least could bring business to us. The first one is of cource, the Chief Minister of Melaka State Government, Dato' Seri Ali Rustam. He request us to participate in Halal Hub, Solar Valley and also present to them. Another visitor request to be our supplier and also request to present to some minister and another last visitor is a contractor whom which to built Mini-hydro and power plant and query us if the system able to monitor the plant and mini-hydro. Well, as business, I will not says NO :) .. although I'm not really confident with our own ability :)

Brother maizi and his junior at MRSM (few years ago)

Explain about power system to Exhibitor from Kedah

 Duta Muslimah Sejagat

Around 4pm, I went around the exhibition to see other exhibitors and to see if we could find partners or what ever good for the company or myself. And yes.. I did found it, that is the beautiful model of so called 'Muslimah'. Did took some pictures of them :).

The Other Exhibitions :)

Took some pictures of other exhibitors that goes along with the theme 'Food, Fashion, Fund, and Education' :)

End of Day 1 of Exhibition

Around 5pm, after looking at few exhibitors from Malaysia packed up their goods, we did the same. After all, there are no visitors after 4pm and all of them that drop by are exhibitors too. We took a taxi and back to hotel. The traffic is worst as usual and this time, it cost us Rp40000.

After reaching hotel, we were surprised by our boss condition. He told us that he had to call a doctor due to food poisoning. But yet, he went to have dinner with us and his friend, brother Iqbal. And may be Allah want to test him, he almost felt due to 'tersadung kaki. hehehe... but still continue walking with painful leg :) ..

We have dinner at a restoran and I choose to ate Burung Dara + Nasi which actually Ayam dara. Wow, the chillies is damn hot and spicy. Just a tick on finger and you will felt the power. Had to move lots of the chillies to eat.

After that, we went back to our room and that's end up my third day of the trip.

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