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Rovie Rizqia Qudus
(I’m) Possible Achievement
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Mount Bromo"
>> Agus Suryono
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ratesis has been around in Indonesia
since 1987, working with many huge
companies as their IT solutions.
Leveredge Project Journey is one of the
countless projects Pratesis had tackled,
but it was different from many others. It is
Unilever Global’s most ambitious project,
encompassing Sabang to Merauke, the
borders of Indonesia.
As the largest island country in the world,
Indonesia is made up from 13.000 small
islands and its land as whole is mapped to
be around 1.900.000 km2. Along the roads
(and the sea), there were 858 PT. Unilever
Indonesia Tbk distributors which we needed
to visit and train. The gravity of this project
still induced minor hyperventilation to me.
We needed a team of more than 150 people
to do this project succesfully. A total of 156
implementors, 3 trainer leads, and 2 project
secretaries made everything possible. A
lot of things needed to be factored in;
including place to stay, cultural differences,
transportations, and unexpected natural
disturbances. Since some of the places were
so isolated, we needed to make arrangements
with the distributors there to provide a
temporary house for our implementors. It’s
not rare for the implementors to not have
found rental houses once they get there.
Even after so many hurdles, however, the
project turned out to be a resounding
success. Waves after waves of implementors
came home with good news, and we came
to know how to handle the little hiccups
of the road. We assigned our most patient
implementors to the east area of Indonesia,
whereas those with more temper in the
more populated locations in Java. We came
to know our personalities and spectrum of
knowledge, and most of all, we learned how
to work as a unified team.
With the project ending, we could finally
take one big breath and exhale all the tension
present during the whole 18 months of the
operation. Not only we came home with new
knowledge, we also came closer to know
more about our country, and learn firsthand
about the cultural richness of Indonesia. •••
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