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Research Purpose – In today’s disruptive digital business era, many new business models, such as digital start-ups, have emerged, and this phenomenon needs workers with particular skills. The aims of this preliminary empirical research paper are to explore and identify the skills needed for disruptive digital business in the Indonesian context, particularly in the Jakarta region. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative study conducted semi-structured interviews with ten respondents from various types of Indonesian start-ups, such as unicorn start-up, financial technology and education technology, that have been in operation four to 12 years. The interviews were based on five core questions with the purpose of exploring respondents’ experience regarding skills needed and challenges faced at work in disruptive digital business. Observation was conducted at the Education Technology start-up office located in Jakarta with an aim to investigate workplace environment, and triangulation was used to validate the interviews’ results. Findings – The results show that (1) innovativeness, (2) leadership skills, (3) social interaction, (4) initiative mindsets, (5) self-disruption, (6) critical thinking, (7) management , and (8) analytical thinking are eight pivotal skills identified for managing disruptive digital business. Practical implications – Innovativeness, leadership and social interaction are the top three skills that are essential for actors in Indonesian digital start-ups to have competitive advantages in this disruptive digital business era. Original/value – This paper explores skills needed for the disruptive digital era in an Indonesian context. Keywords – skills concepts, disruptive, digital business Paper type – Research paper

Ngerong Cave is a cave with a length of 1.8 km is located in the center of Rengel District. This cave is a unique cave because of it flowing river inhabited millions of Bader Bang Fish ( Punctius javanicus ) from small to more than 70 cm long, hundreds of big fish arengan ( Morelius/Labeo chrysophekadion ), dozens of bulus/labi- labi with a diameter of more than one meter, and millions of bats that live on the roof of the cave. The preservation of these animals (especially aquatic animals) is inseparable from the myths that circulate in the community about the sacred nature of the place and its animals. The main myths in circulation are: whoever eats or brings home fish from the river in Ngerong Cave will be infected with a disease that never healed even will cause a mysterious death. This is a continuation of the myth that the invisible creature wich live in Ngerong Cave will not be willing if their pets are harassed by humans and will pursue the man by asking for his life. Because of the myth, the preservation of river animals in Ngerong Cave can be maintained and protected from human disturbance. Research on the benefits of myths in preserving aquatic animals in Ngerong Cave has a goal to explain to the scientific world that the myth (as one study of cultural anthropology) has a very big role in maintaining environmental sustainability. In general, the methodology of this study used a mixing method in the form of qualitative methods with data analyzed from literature studies and field studies, methods adapted to the focus of the problems studied. In this study, the results obtained depict in depth cultural events in the study area.

The company will do many activities to achieve the main objective of obtaining profits. The company's ability to earn profits is called profitability. In this study profitability accounted by Return on Assets (ROA). The study done on a fishing company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI). The research objective was to determine the profile of the company, analyze the influence of Current Ratio (CR), Net Profit Margin (NPM) and Firm size (Size) simultaneously and partially on ROA, and analyze which dominant variables influence on ROA. Methods of data analysis was done by calculating CR, NPM, size and ROA, classic assumption test, multiple linear, adjusted R2 test and test hypotheses. PT. Chentral Proteinaprima fisheries aquaculture company in Indonesia with the highest firm size value, PT. Dharma Samudera Fishing Industries is a company of marine fisheries with the highest ROA value, PT. Inti Kapuas International is a company of Arowana fish breeding with the highest value of CR and NPM. CR, NPM, and size together affect the ROA. CR has negative effect on ROA. NPM has positive effect on the influence of ROA. While size does not affect on ROA. NPM is the dominant from the three factors. Companies should be able to increase net income and must be able to maintain the value of CR that is not too high. Keywords: ROA, CR, NPM, firm size, BEI

Masamo as new variety of catfish cultivated by the farmer group "Sumber Lancar" in Blimbing, Malang currently has a lot of demand due to increasing consumers who like to eat fish to meet the need for protein for the body. Increasing of Masamo catfish demand followed by production and marketing efforts. This study wants to know whether the marketing efficient. Therefore, this study uses analytical approach approach in order to identify institutional and channel of Masamo Catfish marketing performed by that Group, analyze marketing functions and its marketing efficiency. Data were collected by interview, observation and literatur study. Based on the research, the marketing agencies involved in Masamo catfish marketing consist of fish producers and traders. The marketing has four channels, in which channel I is an indirect marketing channel, while the channel II-IV is a direct marketing channel. The marketing functions are mostly done by middlemen rather than farmers. Masamo catfish marketing are generally quite efficient because short marketing channels, low marketing margins, marketing costs share by 19.6%, while the profit share amounted to 80.4%; the farmer’share is still greater than marketing margin. Suggestions for fish farmer to increase production capacity.