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Adiksi Kopi Dunia

Oct 16, 2015 | Business, Kontan

[Download PDF KONTAN Daily Adiksi Kopi Dunia] oleh Jennie M. Xue Dunia teradiksi kopi. Ini sudah tidak perlu diragukan lagi. Kopi merupakan bisnis lukratif yang tahan banting dan semakin tinggi pamornya. Terlepas dari berbagai halangan panen akibat cuaca buruk di...

Dispelling the Beauty Myth on the Day of the Girl Child

Oct 11, 2015 | Feminism, Jakarta Post, Women

Note: October 11th is the International Day of the Girl Child [Read directly on TheJakartaPost.com] by Jennie M. Xue [Below is the author's unedited version.] In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared that every October 11th is the international day of the...

JetBlue, Neeleman, dan Menjadi Pionir

Oct 9, 2015 | Business, Kontan

[Download PDF KONTAN Daily Jet Blue, Neeleman dan Menjadi Pionir] oleh Jennie M. Xue David Neeleman adalah pendiri JetBlue, maskapai penerbangan hip berlogo biru yang penuh dengan inovasi dan ide-ide pionir. Kini JetBlue adalah salah satu maskapai penerbangan dengan...

Produktivitas dan Happiness as A Skill Set

Oct 8, 2015 | Business, Kontan

[Download PDF KONTAN Daily Produktivitas dan Happiness As A Skill Set] oleh Jennie M. Xue Kebahagiaan dan menjadi bahagia merupakan ketrampilan. Bukan semata-mata perasaan dan bukan semata-mata tujuan dan hasil dari pencapaian suatu gol. Dengan kata lain, seseorang...

Non-Killing and International Day of Non-Violence

Oct 3, 2015 | Peacebuilding, Politics

by Jennie M. Xue October 2nd is The International Day of Non-Violence, which is the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi (born on October 2, 1869). He was the leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of...

The Pope, Calvinism, and Inequality

Sep 28, 2015 | America, Christianity, Economy, Human Rights, Jakarta Post, Politics

[Read this article directly on TheJakartaPost.com] by Jennie M. Xue, Singapore Pope Francis gave a historic speech to the US Congress last week. He urged the US government and Catholic leaders in the country to focus on peace, poverty and environmental stewardship. He...

Belajar Inovasi dari Picasso

Sep 25, 2015 | Business, Kontan

[Download PDF KONTAN DAILY Belajar Inovasi dari Picasso] oleh Jennie M. Xue Siapa tidak mengenal Pablo Picasso? Picasso adalah seorang pelukis beraliran Kubisme paling terkenal di dunia. Ia dikenal dengan metode dekonstruksinya yang berhasil meminimalisasi jumlah...

Manajemen Talenta Generasi Milenial

Sep 22, 2015 | Business, Prasetiya Mulya

[Download PDF file artikel FMPM September-Oktober 2015 Generasi Milenial oleh Jennie M. Xue] Generasi Milenial: Berkat atau Kutuk? oleh Jennie M. Xue Generasi Milenial (GM) membawa berbagai perubahan mengingat default state mereka yang berbeda daripada...

Peran Androgini dalam Kreativitas

Sep 20, 2015 | Business, Kontan

[Download PDF KONTAN Daily Peran Androgini dalam Kreativitas] oleh Jennie M. Xue Perhatikanlah orang-orang sukses di sekitar Anda. Yang pria mempunyai ketegasan maskulin namun juga mempunyai perhatian yang lembut. Yang perempuan mempunyai kelembutan feminin namun...

Neurosains Branding

Sep 18, 2015 | Business, Kontan

[Download PDF KONTAN Weekly Neurosains Branding] oleh Jennie M. Xue Strategi branding yang mengindahkan neurosains dipercaya lebih jitu dan efektif dibandingkan tanpa melibatkan unsur ini. Seorang konsumen adalah manusia yang hidup dalam alam sadar (conscious) dan...

Jennie M. Xue is an award-winning author and a bilingual columnist based in Northern California. She writes in English and Indonesian and is known as one of the most prolific Indonesia-born bilingual authors and columnists. Her English-only site and writing portfolio is JenniferXue.com.

They Said

The fire within Jennie was ignited as another fire was extinguished.
(Justin Lafferty for Tracy Press)

In a way, Jennie is a literary opposite of Stockton native Maxine Hong Kingston, who wrote about being trapped between American culture and the wrenchingly different ways of her Chinese immigrant parents. Cultural dislocation empowers Jennie.
(Michael Fitzgerald for The Record of San Joaquin)

They say the people who truly love you are the ones who constantly urge you to improve. Jakarta native and award-winning writer Jennie embodies this. Though she has lived in America for more than a decade, Jennie writes exhaustively on Jakarta, its people, its activism and its future.
(Shalene Gupta for The Jakarta Globe)