Summer Internship

by Ahmad Khoirul Basyar

Long holiday always got by students on summer. Yet, not all students got good chance for developing their selves. In my summer holiday 2014 within May – August, I did my internship in Nusantara Infrastructure for 2.5 months. On the first month I spent my time with Corporate Affair team. At the first time, I felt nervous in the new ’old’ community. I just kept silence and looked around me and what they have done and interacted with others. Day by day, I have adapted, come on the early morning and back on the late night.

A lot of skills I got. It is a fantastic for sophomore student like me when other students did the refreshing I took my refreshing by adapting me in the new environment. However, I felt skill is easy to get, now I asked to myself just the skill you got? I reflected myself and analyzed everything in the new environment start from Indonesian habit in Transjakarta, train, and office. Everything has the pattern and if you know the pattern it can be easily and more profitable for you live in Jakarta. Indonesian people have the unique habits, like giving smile to each other and having good conversation and sharing is the best way the real Indonesian like. A lot of life learning teach by people in public transportation while the journey to go to office. Understanding the other people and their trouble live in capital city like Jakarta is important for shaping our character and creating our vision for our lovely nation, Indonesia, somedays when we become the leader.

The important I got is in office. I interact with all people, I studied and analyzed what he/she liked to talk and tried to involve. Starting from office boy to general manager, all of them have their own interesting topic to talk. From there, I upgrade my horizon widely. The real world is not about engineer but the real world is about synergizing each complement in same vision and goal.

The second lesson is about humanity. Javanese people have simple and meaningful quotation that says Nguwongke Uwong in bahasa Indonesia is Mengorangkan Orang. This is that we almost forget, however human is human we need to treat everyone as human. Almost people right now think if they have succeeded they forget whence they come from. They almost made the gap between richest, middle, and poor. God create us as a one called human. When we put human as human so the good feedback will we got someday. I have proven it in the internship, day by day I did it and in the last day of my intern everyone help me and volunteered my presentation so the presentation was success. Mr. Ramdani said the successful people is determined two factor, first 85% as attitude and the rest is skill. So being good people is important for me, you, and the world.