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G20 Seminar Series Report: Unlocking Innovative Financing Schemes and Islamic Finance to Accelerate Just Energy Transitions in Emerging Economies

The report contains records of a seminar on renewable energy and Islamic finance held by several non-profit organizations in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy. The report design followed the G20 brand guidelines emphasizing minimalist design.

Software: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat.

IG: 5 Ways to a Better Life

Changing life begins with performing better habits seriously. It takes time and endless dedication. What do you want to do? What do you want to achieve? What kind of life do you want to have? Lao Tzu said a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. So let’s go!

IG: TNP2K Webinars and Infographic

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Marker Content: 5 Steps to Finding New Business Ideas

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Generating new business ideas for starting a business can be challenging if you have limited funds or have been unemployed for years. Sometimes, you may reach the limit of patience and often feel hopeless. You realize how hard it takes to formulate ideas about what kind of business to do. However, developing viable ideas with the right mindset and tools is possible. So don’t give up just yet! Here are five steps that can help you generate new business ideas:

  1. Identify the problems within your family, organization, or community that need solving. Compile them into a list of new business ideas, such as coffee budget-friendly for late-night workers or renting assistive devices for older people. If you are confident and determined enough to solve these problems, there is a chance to turn them into a business opportunity.

  2. Analyze emerging trends in different industries. Explore business ideas in education, fashion, food and beverage, health, lifestyle, technology, and other industries.For instance, people are hunting good low-price fashion products in recession. Starting a business in pre-loved fashion might be a good idea. Buy bulk clothes in good condition from distributors, and sell them online or through word of mouth.

  3. Use your expertise to start a business. Think about what you are good at. Cook, write articles, analyze data, repair leaky roofs, sell products, lead a team, layout brochures, design buildings, sew clothes and many more. 

    You are a proven copywriter. Imagine this. You meet a friend who is fatigued due to work stress. Massive layoffs in the office forced him to do several jobs simultaneously. He and the team were overwhelmed and needed help doing some tasks, such as making reports for internal meetings. There you go! Ask him to delegate the assignment to you and offer writing services to him.

  4. Conduct simple market research to identify gaps and needs within a market. You can use this information to start a business that fills those gaps. 

    One day, I heard a story of a pet owner who frequently travels out of town. She has to leave the dogs for quite a long time. She is concerned about the quality of her pet’s food. I realized there was a demand and caught a potential business idea. What if starting a catering business for dogs and cats? It might work.

  5. Look for inspiration from successful entrepreneurs. Apply their incredible business lessons to motivate you to start a business. Attend networking events and conferences to connect with other entrepreneurs. You will gain new insights and inspiration for potential business opportunities.

    The life story of Nusret Gökçe or Salt Bae may inspire you to start a business even if you don’t finish school. He is a famous Turkish chef and restaurateur. He lived in poverty, forcing him out of school and working as a butcher since he was young. Then, he went abroad to study as a chef and restaurateur. As an apprentice, he gained valuable knowledge and applied it to build Nusr-Et. His signature style of sprinkling salt and cutting the meat has gone viral on social media and the internet. Today, he has opened a Nusr-Et steakhouse chain in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

The mantra is that a good business idea must solve a problem, meet a need, or fill a market gap. People around you may be pessimistic and say the idea is familiar or weird. The door to opportunities will open if you do it differently with perseverance.

Link: https://www.markercontent.com/articles/business/5-steps-to-finding-new-business-ideas-274145

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Marker Content: 3 Ways to Best Prepare for AI Expansion

Leading investment and securities company Goldman Sachs predicts artificial intelligence (AI) will cause significant disruption in the labor market. The research results by Goldman analysts estimate that the rapid development of AI will be able to automate 300 million full-time jobs worldwide. Sounds familiar to this information these days?

Some well-known billionaires have called for AI creators to delay the more powerful AI to save humanity. However, Pandora’s box is already wide open and impossible to avoid its impact in the present and future.

Stay calm! There are some essential things we should understand about AI. 

ChatGPT claims the purpose of AI is to assist and provide helpful responses to human inquiries, such as automating specific tasks and roles. AI isn’t to replace human interaction or creativity because AI doesn’t possess a human worker’s emotional intelligence, intuition, or creativity. ChatGPT emphasizes soft skills will remain highly valued in many industries and professions because they are crucial components of many jobs.

Advanced technologies and different work processes continue to emerge and evolve rapidly in the blink of an eye.

So, what to do now?

1. Enhance soft skills.

Essential soft skills include:

  • Strong communication skills will benefit your collaboration efforts in person and remotely.
  • Interpersonal skills include active listening, dependability, empathy, flexibility, leadership, motivation, patience, responsibility, and teamwork.
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills will help you adapt to new situations and challenges.
  • Flexibility and adaptability will help you mentally prepare for an unknown future.

For example, unresolved conflicts result in losses for the business and reduced productivity among employees. Imagine that you have to resolve a dispute within your team. Conflict resolution, in reality, involves many complex thoughts and emotions between two or more people. To resolve a conflict, you must perform specific soft skills such as assertive communication, collaboration, empathy, problem-solving, self-awareness, and self-control.

Suppose you ask ChatGPT to resolve a conflict. In that case, ChatGPT explains that as an AI language model, I can’t feel emotions but can offer general advice on approaching such a situation.

In conclusion, you don’t delegate tasks involving dynamics of emotion and thought to the AI because lacking interpersonal skills like humans.

2. Learn new hard skills.

New industries and job opportunities require skills and expertise in artificial intelligence, data analysis, data visualization and programming. Shockingly, today, AI can process data and create programs in a short time. If you request ChatGPT to compose complicated coding with precise instructions, this AI can do it faster and better than humans.

What can I do now?

Expand digital literacy and proficiency with various software programs and applications.

If you’re good at design and have expertise in operating well-known design software, this may be the time to expand your capability. Learn about user interface/user experience or UI/UX design to enhance competitiveness. You’ll learn that a good application is a product that can incorporate the human experience into the machine.

For example, you get an assignment to design a first aid application for older people. In the meantime, the latest AI can create UI/UX and build comprehensive coding quickly. However, an application must work properly and have functions that accommodate real human needs. You can only understand older people’s urgency by conducting research such as an in-depth interview. Interviewing them needs soft skills such as active listening, empathy, motivation, and patience.

In conclusion, cooperation between humans and machines will benefit humans as well.

What’s to do next?

3. Stay up to date on AI trends.

Today, it’s easy to catch information about current and emerging technologies across platforms, especially social media. Stay informed by following the trends to curate your skills and abilities to survive in the job market.

Learn to use the latest AI technologies and tools for your and other people’s benefit.

It will be an exhausting match between humans and AI. Strengthening the skills that humans are good at is one of many solutions. There is no other way but to progress constantly.

Link: https://www.markercontent.com/articles/trending/3-ways-to-best-prepare-for-ai-expansion-274702

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Presentation: Kerja Bersama Menuju Masyarakat Indonesia yang Kokoh dan Sejahtera

A presentation designed for high-level meetings at the ministerial level discussing the history and achievements of the TNP2K organization from 2016 to 2022. TNP2K is an organization for accelerating poverty reduction, an initiative of the strategic partnership between Indonesia and the Australian Government for poverty reduction and inclusive social protection.

Software: Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop.

In Brief: Bancassurance BCA Provisa Max (Part 1)

An infographic about an insurance product from a collaboration between Indonesia’s leading banks. The graphic highlights product details ranging from the monthly amount to a year, where the banks invest your money, and the benefits your family gets.

Website Content: The Mystical Land of Java Calls You to Explore

Blog: The Mystical Land of Java Calls You to Explore

Not just a walk and see attractions. Ordinary travel is the past. We are adding another level of experience to your journey on the island of Java, Indonesia. We hope you will return home with many things, more than good memories. What are they?

What’s in Central Java?
Feel the atmosphere of the traditional community of the past and present blend in Yogyakarta. Find yourself walking around Malioboro and absorbing the Javanese lifestyle. Taste authentic Javanese cuisine that you won’t find anywhere else. Listen to catchy stories about Javanese history and cultures that you can tell your friends and family, then get rid of your tiredness at Parangtritis beach.

Get close to one of the most active volcanoes in the world. The hilly landscape of Merapi volcano in Central Java will give you the understanding of living side by side with nature which is both harsh and fascinating.

Explore the gigantic stupa of Borobudur and look at Mount Merapi in the distance. The majestic Borobudur will show you the Buddhist perception of achieving Nirvana, the prime archetype of the golden age of Indo-Javanese architecture. Maybe a trip to Borobudur will empower you with a spiritual awakening.

Discover the complexity of Prambanan, the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia, located between Solo and Yogyakarta. Explore the history of the grand temples for royal and religious ceremonies with stunning detailed carvings about the epic of Ramayana.

What’s in East Java?
Enjoy the legendary sunrise dreamlike views at a cone shape Mount Bromo with Mount Semeru in the background. You can choose to ride a horse or an off-road vehicle through the cold volcanic plain. A panoramic giant Tengger caldera volcanic landscape will leave you with lifetime memories.

Hike Ijen crater directly in East Java. You will find Api Biru (Blue Fire), the largest fiery sulfuric gas in the world, is equal to five meters high. Appreciate the beauty of the turquoise sulfuric lake. Meet face to face with vigorous men who carry away yellowish sulfur chunks manually from natural sulfur mines.

We provide professional guidance, safety standards, and proper accommodation to suit your needs and convenience. Our best-experienced guides will give you lots of valuable information about each destination.

The extraordinary adventures are waiting for you.

Link: https://ykexplore.co.id/the-mystical-land-of-java-calls-you-to-explore/


About Us

Boundless hobbies of traveling led us to establish PT Yogyakarta Trip Aktivitas and find brand-new ways to explore the island of Java. We have a continuing love affair with the natural odyssey, hanging around to discover the hidden gems of the cities, old buildings, architecture, special culinary tours, and abound curiosity about Javanese past and present history.

Under the brand of Ykexplore, we offer exciting itineraries at a competitive price to Indonesia enthusiasts. We serve group, customized, and private tours. You can choose the number of travel days and accommodation based on personal preferences and budget.

Explore the island of Java in any season year around. We will guide you to every possibility. You can take a neighborhood walking tour or go around the city in a vehicle or sit comfortably in the car. Talk to locals while tasting food in the open air. Learn local wisdom at historical places or watch cultural dance. Catch breathtaking photos in the early morning from the height of the mountains or record videos for trip vlogs. Observe the smoke coming out of the volcano. View the Javanese countryside from the top of the temple. Practice the local community’s lifestyle that does not exist in big cities. Why not? And many more to come.

We know that your day off is invaluable, and we want to do excellent customer oriented service. We provide competent and experienced human resources who can speak foreign languages well enough, decent accommodation, and reliable vehicle platforms to make you conveniently and safely along the trips. We ensure an unforgettable experience you can share with friends and family.

Link: https://ykexplore.co.id/about-us/



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IG: Amarone della Valpolicella Classico DOCG

The post is a concise description of the Amarone Classico DOCG wine. Every word describes this legendary classic wine’s superiority, which is why you should buy it.