E-Gateway launches e-Learning business

A'an Suryana, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

E-Gateway Incorporation introduced an internet-based electronic learning business dubbed e-Learning to the Indonesian public on Friday.

Through the virtual product, which can be accessed at www.egateway250.com, people can improve their work skills, and they can do business as well.

Membership is free, but if people are interested to learn something specific, for example about management, they will be charged between US$10 and $350 each, depending on the module.

Through some features in the website, people can learn how to run a business, how to double their company's sales, and even how to improve their managerial competence.

The website also provides interactive learning programs in various fields, including commerce.

Aside from individual users, e-Learning also opens up opportunities for Indonesian companies to introduce their products to the public worldwide.

By purchasing a membership right at $250, the companies are given a certain amount of space on the website.

Before entering Indonesia, e-Gateway operated in Singapore and Malaysia.

Ron Cartey, the company's international director for leadership development, told a press conference on Friday that the company would open business in the Philippines, Thailand and China.

According to Cartey, Asia had become the main target since prominent scholar Kishore Mahbubani predicted that 90 percent of the world's population would live in Asia in the next 40 years.

Based in the British Virgin Islands, e-Gateway was established in 2001.