Live It Colorfully

Indonesia may not be on your map of the publishing world, but it's certainly a market to watch. The Republic of Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy (after the USA and India), with about population over 240 million and spread over an archipelago of some 17,500 islands. Moreover, it is  currently the world's 20th-largest economy and growing fast. Predictions by Goldman Sachs suggest Indonesia will be the world's 11th largest economy by 2050, behind only China, Japan and India in Asia. Indonesia must be has a huge and extremely fragmented book market.

In general, many of the participants stressed the importance of children’s book publishing: as 25% of Indonesia’s population are school-aged children. Category children’s books are a significant and growing market also fiction & literature, religion, textbooks and Religious (Islamic) books account for at least 30% of the market. Print books will remain significant in Indonesia, particularly in early education.


This sentiment was echoed by IKAPI (The Indonesian Publishers Association), which said that as eager as publishers are to expand into digital publishing, it is important to start small and develop expertise to offer the best possible products.

1,317 publishers registered with IKAPI.Of these, about 1,200 are considered active publishers. However, the National Library Deposit Statistic mentions 3,227 publishers. Most publishers are private, but there are also a few state -owned groups.Most publishers are trade publishers. There are at least 100 specialised publishers.


Kestity Pringgoharjono, Executive Director of the Lontar Foundation says;

Today there are more than 1,000 book publishers in Indonesia—largely concentrated on Java—and around 50% of the books published are translated from other languages.

Turnover of book publishing in Indonesia grew by six per cent each year from 2007 to 2012. The sector’s growth has beenstimulated by Indonesia’s broader economic growth, the rapidly expanding middle class, and the increasing importance of education. There is significant correlation
between the nominal GDP growth and the household expenditure on books.

Whatever condition the present Indonesian book publishing is in, it is the result of a collective effort of Indonesian society as a whole. Its success or failure is an indicator of the intellectual and the socio-economic development of the Indonesian people. To develop it, synergistic efforts of all parties concerned are badly needed.

Typically 4,000 to 5,000 copies around 10%-20% sell between 10,000 to 100,000 copies; some titles have achieved exceptional sales,such asAndrea Hirata’Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Troops) which is estimated to have sold about three milions.

As a personal book shopper I found that many Indonesian people still have big interest in book even smartphone penetration and mobile services growth are booming in Indonesia. Using social media Instagram I could reach lot of people from different island and help them get the book that they want. Currently, I specialized in imported book personal shopper due to limited access to get the translation one. Besides, imported book is limited on greater Java and Bali island.

Taken from significant correlation between the nominal GDP growth and the household expenditure on books, I also found that the rising of US dollar's value also have greater impact in books buying especially in imported book and also book importer. I really hoping that government could stabilize our currency so that we could have more book to be read.

Source :
http://publishingperspectives.com/2013/10/indonesias-sea-of-opportunities/
http://www.buchmesse.de/images/fbm/dokumente-ua-pdfs/2015/book_market_indonesia_52246.pdf
http://www.accu.or.jp/appreb/report/abd/abd3033.html
http://beyondhall8.blogspot.com/2008/08/indonesia-may-not-be-on-your-map-of.html

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I am not strict when it comes to belief, faith or religion. I do not care what people believe in, faith or their religion, all I know everything is teaching you kindness, peace, and love. I respect people who doing a lot of kindness than their worship. I always think who am I judging people by how often they are doing their worship. But I'm judging them by their kindness cause that's the only thing that sometimes eyes can not see but heart will always feel.

Kindness  is a simple things that makes people sometimes feel complicated. I'm not talking about that you have to make everybody happy or saying yes in every single way. I'm talking about how to be true with your self, be honest, be positive, and make it simple. That is the definition of kindness according me.

If you find someone with difficulties, I'm sure if you are honest you will help that people don't you? What about people who will not help. I'm not sure they are not willing to help. I believe that they have willingness but they are to lazy to do that.

I just hoping that people who feel lazy to help other people do not have a dream that someday they will get help by others. Yes if you want people to nice with you then you should be nice too.  So if you want have a nice day then you should be kind to people. If you had a bad day even if you do kindness, is OK . God's never do a mistake just wait maybe there a bigger blessing in disguise. Never give up to be kind.

1. You still wake up every morning
2. You are healthy so  were your family
3. You always a day to live on
4. You are happy with your friends
5. You can see, feel, smell, and taste everything

I used to forget that I had talent in drawing. I had buried my dream as illustrator a long time ago. Simply because of my parents and my surrounding is not support me to develop my talent. While other parents took their child to have class in art and drawing , I just simply learn  by autodidact. Whenever I found that some picture is interesting, I try to imitate by my very own way. My parents do not have enough money to facilitate my talent. In my school, I were not allow to attend school competition because I don't have informal education in drawing furthermore I do not have money to buy the form.

My first page of  alphabet project

This talent are inherited from my grandfather. He is a talented painter. He had left us about 20 paintings as his works. Some of  his paint were sold at high price and others are keep on my attics.

I believe talent has just need to be discovered. Fortunately it did not happen in my case. So I grew up with the talents of drawing left abandoned somewhere. Did I regret it? yes I do. I did not try harder to keep my dream and my talent and besides I can't go back and spend all my time to studying about my passion in drawing. All i can do is saving a little money to buy some books about drawing.

I found that the drawing talent that I had left them has just come back when I were pregnant of my daughter. I spend my time by drawing a cute picture of animal. Every animal is represent the first letter of their names.It's my project to list letter and introduce some animals to my daughter. I believe I could not beat up my destiny to develop my talents and passion in drawing. If it is too late to develop, still I could pass my knowledge in drawing to my daughter. I can teach her to draw and encourage he to chase her dream and develop her talents. I'm not going to force her to develep talent in drawing if she do not have interest in there.

I like when I post some picture of my project were liked by some strangers that had come and pass by to my instagram. They are encourage me draw more. I try to develop my talents everyday , this is just the way I grateful to Gods of His kindness.

Do you ever got a talent that you have not recognize it? Is it too late to develop it?

Housing seems to be a biggest problem for people in Indonesia at the age of 26 unless they are given by their parent.  It's not easy to buy a house especially in the capital city like Jakarta, they often buy in satellite city like Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, and Karawang. It cost at least 1 billion Rupiah to own a dream house in Jakarta. Surely, it is not easy to save some money if you are work as an employee or a small entrepreneur moreover you are living independently . However, if you are lucky as a star of soap opera or singer, you can save a  lot of money and own the dream house.
My little house is underconstruction and it will be done by this October.