Working in Indonesia; Between Indonesia Employees and Expatriates

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago country consists of 13.466 islands. Indonesia is the fourth-largest populated country and the largest Muslim populated country in the world, about 230 million although officially not Islamic countries.

Indonesia is known for its natural resources wealth, that’s why Indonesia colonized by Netherlands for 350 years and Japan for 3.5 years a view years ago. This made Indonesia people grew to be 'inferiority' people. Although it's been more than 60 years got the independence, but the syndrome of ‘colonized mental’ still attached. Indonesia people feel themselves not aligned with other people from other nations.

The simple example could be seen from the differentiation of salary rate which very larger between expatriates and Indonesia employees. The expatriates paid 10 times bigger than Indonesia employee though with the same level of education, ability, responsibility and performance.

According to the standards of the Bappenas, a foreign engineer in Jakarta, get salary around more than US $ 5000.00 per month. Otherwise with the same qualification with Indonesia employee received only $ 500.00. It’s very common in a project, though with higher education qualifications such as MSc or PHd, Indonesia remain paid lower than expatriate who just BSc. In addition expatriates also get facilities such as a luxury house or apartment, car, sports club, education fee for their children and other facilities.

Actually it does not matter if the expatriate paid in such a high salary if they have an unique ability that is not owned by the Indonesia employee and absolutely necessary. But if with the same capabilities and performance, and then paid higher just because of his foreigners status then it will be not logical.

Therefore, it is necessary to change the paradigm that considers the expatriate (the ‘white skin’ people) is better than Indonesia employee. The Government should also immediately do ‘HUMAN RESOURCES’ mapping owned by Indonesia employee, both with regard to quantity and quality. With all the statistics and maps which clear about the spread of Indonesia in various HR disciplines, it will get a clear picture about the strength of Indonesia Human Resources.

To be continued in Part II, Indonesia in ASEAN Economic Community atau Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA)

Google Avoid Recruit The Best Graduates with High IQ

As an Internet company , Google is considered as a role model because of the massive scale . Included in the affairs of human resources . Google has a policy that is uniquely associated with hiring employees .

They spent many years analyzing who is successful in the company , which overlook the importance of GPA, reputation of the school and interview .

In a conversation with Tom Friedman of The New York Times , Google's head of operations, Laszlo Bock, detailing what company sought when recruiting . And unique, academic criteria do not become major .

The graduates of top schools avoided by Google for reasons they do not usually have what is referred to as " intellectual humility " .

Megan McArdle argues that the authors put off " because they scored too many A's in the class " . Likewise, college graduates . The best graduates are usually taught to rely on their talents, which in turn makes it difficult to adapt the work .

I more wanted to get people who are able to accept the ideas of others while the idea is good, more than they have. That humility I mean , Bock said .

Although not all, many brilliant graduates very rarely experienced failure and did not learn how to learn from failure .

They are usually gifted genius , Bock said , shows that the fundamental attribution error because they tend to think when he was successful , it was because he was a genius . Meanwhile, when it fails, he will blame others around him or anything else . In Google , you should insist on and defend ideas to the death but if someone else can provide factual evidence that there are other better ideas , you must acknowledge and support it .

Surprisingly , those without a college degree can actually do it better. "People can still be successful even if no formal education is an extraordinary person and we need to get people like that, " Bock said .

Many campuses are failing to realize the promise of their, Bock claims. What is more important than the level of intelligence, academic degree or diploma with an A is the ability to learn. "Campus only artificial learning environment . Which is more important is a person's general cognitive ability , the ability to process while working, collecting a lot of information and structured process that can be known through a behavioral interview I gave," she said .

Those interviews for example tells prospective employees to think about how many tennis balls that will be put in a tennis court . It makes Google is able to predict the candidate's ability to react to difficult problems in the past. The way it is also considered to find the ones that suit is Google's definition of leadership .

"It's not just how to lead a club at school or get a degree that makes people impressed leader ," he explained again , " but rather on the ability of a person to climb the next step and become a leader when needed . "