Didi Kasim
Didi Kaspi Kasim (born 3 March 1977) is an Indonesian journalist and editor at National Geographic Indonesia.[1]
| Didi Kasim | |
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| Born | Didi Kaspi Kasim 3 March 1977 Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indonesian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Billy Blue College of Design |
| 💼 Occupation |
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| 📆 Years active | 2000–present |
Early life[edit]
Kasim was born on 3 March 1977 in Medan, North Sumatra.[2][3] His father, Kasim Yacoeb (18 November 1937 – 21 March 1996), died from cancer.[4][5] He had a sister, Revika.[6] Kasim was raised in Jakarta and graduated from Billy Blue College of Design in Australia.[1][3] He has an outdoor hobby such as biking, hiking, and climbing mountains, and has a dream to work at National Geographic.[1]
Career[edit]
Kasim started his career by establishing an advertising company in Jakarta with his friends, and attempting to convince clients that they would receive more personal service than the larger advertising companies.[1] Later, he found out that advertising is highly competitive jobs, and has no desire to continue and then closed the venture which only lasted a year.[1] He worked as an editor for Hai magazine from 2000 until 2017.[7] Later, he and his friend founded Soccer magazine. Kasim started to work as an editor for Kompas daily and began pressing Kompas to consider creating a National Geographic branch in Indonesia.[1] He was an intern at The Jakarta Post.[1]
National Geographic Indonesia[edit]
In 2005, when National Geographic was established in Indonesia, Kasim worked there as an art director.[1] He finds hard time to produce a National Geographic story, due to regulation where he was not allowed to produce a content in Indonesian language, and only taken a content from United States and translated it to Bahasa.[1]
In 2007, Kasim became the managing editor, and started to published the first magazine with original content from National Geographic Indonesia.[1] The first magazine content was about a small story of underwater biology featuring local scientist, and later was capable of creating a story about Borobudur Temple which took eight months for production.[1] At that time, the content of magazine has only 20 percent of original content, and 80 percent of the content was being translated from United States.[1]
In 2009, Kasim was appointed as the editor-in-chief, and later overseeing and contributing to the production of the story.[1] As of 2019, he worked as a journalist and considering to be a photographer or an author for National Geographic.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 "Didi Kasim: Living out his dream - The Jakarta Post". www.thejakartapost.com. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ↑ "Mewartakan Cerita Lewat Feature Ala National Geographic". kumparan (in Bahasa Indonesia). Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kasim, Didi (2017). "#EigerFriends: Didi Kasim". Instagram (in Bahasa Indonesia). Retrieved 2023-06-19.
- ↑ Kasim, Didi (2015). "6ft under where we all be ended". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-06-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kasim, Didi. "Saya bersama almarhum ayah saya, saya tak begitu dekat dengan beliau tak seperti beliau dengan anak-anak perempuannya. Namun di akhir-akhir hidupnya saya seperti diberi kesempatan oleh Allah SWT mengejar ketertinggalan jarak di antara kami". Instagram (in Bahasa Indonesia). Retrieved 2023-06-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kasim, Didi. "My sister and i, somewhere in the 80's". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-06-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ antaranews.com (2017-06-10). "Hai sudah lama berencana akhiri edisi cetak". Antara News. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
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