Why is now telework more feasible for Indonesia?

Three years ago I proposed the implementation of teleworking or telecommuting to the Indonesian business community as one solution to the increasing oil prices, at that time was as high as US$140 per gallon. The Government of Indonesia was at that time provided price subsidies to domestic oil prices so as to enable lower domestic oil prices for the common Indonesians to buy, since most of their salaries were too little to buy oil prices at international standard prices.

The subsidy caused a very heavy burden to the Indonesia Government's annual budget, causing a large budget deficit.

If teleworking was implemented at that time, large savings of oil supply could be obtained, to reduce budget deficit substantially. One reason not to implement telework at that time was that the telecommunication network was not as extensive, cheap and as better quality than that of today.

Today we can enjoy a better quality of Internet services, fixed as well as mobile, over the terrestrial copper cables(ADSL Speedy), the optical cables, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, 3G, 3.5G, 3.9G using various types of transmission modulations, such as CDMA 200 1x EVDO, GSM, HSDPA, HSPA+, WiFi, WiMAX with speeds higher than 20 Mbit/sec.

It is therefore the implementation of Teleworking or Telecommuting in Indonesia now is better prepared for a success.

Worse than before, the traffic jams in large Indonesian cities are becoming an obstacle to an efficient travels of workers from their homes to their offices. The now spent many hours just to go to their offices, and returned in the evenings. Much of fuel, energy, time and mental resources were expended. Worst still, rainy seasons in Indonesia as well as in other parts of the world are getting longer and longer, causing floods in lower level streets in many cities, thus making the worse traffic jams.

By implementing teleworking or telecommuting, time efficiency, travel efficiency, fuel costs savings, reduced national fuel needs, etc, can be easily obtained. Other value added result is an increase in our national productivity.

Why don't we all start with a teleworking or telecommuting right now?

Welcome to our Teleworkings Blog

Welcome to all of you!

This Teleworking Blog is dedicated to anyone who is interested to implement telework or telecommuting in their day-to-day work, replacing their conventional daily work at his/her physical office.

Teleworking is a normal daily work that is done at any where, any time and any place you may considered most suitable and most convenient, whether at home, at a cafe, at a beach or at a swimming pool.

The key success factor to this new working environment is that you are able to completeyour dayly work assignments or projects perfectly at the scheduled times, or earlier.

This Blog contains many advices and guidelines for you to start a Teleworking or Telecommuting successfully, based successful past experience of others.

Please do not hesitate to make an inquiry, give a comment or suggestion on any topic orsubject presented in this Blog. By doing that, your valuable experience or contributions can then be shared by others who has not had the same experience in implementing the telework or telecommuting.

We hope that you are satisfied with the content of this Blog.

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