Andrew Young Entrepreneurs Dervish, the second son of four children born July 20, 1979. Currently reap success because he is the founder of the largest international forum in Indonesia, Kaskus.us.

Andrew teens so infatuated tweaking websit, it is triggered when Andrew asked his uncle, a businessman in export furniture to create a website for their business. Andrew recorded as a student of Bina Nusantara (Binus) Jakarta at the time.


After studying at Binus, Andrew seek other universities 'support' his new hobby. He had trouble finding a suitable university in Indonesia, because at that time not yet a land multimedia livelihoods in Indonesia. But eventually she found through the information of a friend who had just returned from America. A university named Seattle University judged the deep desire to facilitate web programming world.

At first, both parents Andrew disagree with his wishes. They think college would be too soon to spend money, not to mention the cost of living there. But after pressed by Andrew, eventually they yield well, provided that the cost of living during college in America to bear alone. Andrew received


The initial idea to make this site appear during her college at Seattle University, USA, in 1999 ago. At that time, he was commissioned to create a website from a free software. While working on the program, occurred in the minds of Andrew to create a site with a forum Kaskus name (short for Kasak Kusuk)

And comes with an initial capital of U.S. $ 3000, Andrew bought a server and worked with two colleagues named Ronald and Budi to design a portal that contains news and information about Indonesia. Andrew optimistic from the outset with this site. At that time, Internet users in Indonesia has reached 40 million. For him, each user is a potential target for the world to start a business online.

The initial purpose of Andrew and his colleagues were able to treat these sites longing Indonesian people who are living abroad. He retell the news from foreign sites such as CNN and Reuters, but early versions Kaskus is growing very slowly, not many internet users who are interested in the site at the time. Finally, because of broken charcoal, both associates Andrew was left.


Gradually, Andrew learns from his mistakes, he learned another forum site and started adding sub-sub forum in kaskus forum. Starting from the game to the forum about the plants were added to the DJ. Gradually, the site is growing rapidly. One attraction kaskus time was +17 BB forum, a forum containing pornographic images.

After that, Andrew had to work alone to run the site. He had to intervene alone fix the server if there is any damage. When he finished college and moved to Jakarta, he had to work alone Kaskus advertising and image building that advertisers interested in advertising on the site pair. Businesses door-to-door that made ​​Andrew sweet fruit. Only a year after moving to Jakarta and perform imaging on Kaskus, Andrew received support from many clients who rely on advertising their products in Kaskus.

Finally, in December 2008, officially launching Kaskus in the support of many in tow. Two months later, Andrew founded a company called PT Darta Media Indonesia to supervise Kaskus as a professional website. In the same year, Andrew boldly removing BB +17 sub-forums that have been raised DJ name, as in the anti-pornography Bill was passed the government and threatened kaskus website banned because it contains pornography content.


Such actions rather than destroy, instead catapulted Kaskus name. Since content +17 BB abolished, there was a surge in the number of netters who sign Kaskus. The amount can reach an average of 150-250 new members per day and this number is growing rapidly. Target markets Kaskus is among students, students, employees, professionals and entrepreneurs. Not only that, the e-commerce sub forum named FJB kaskus also increased rapidly.

Andrew has received several awards from this site, among them are The Best Indonesian Communities for 2005 and 2006 version Alexa.com and Wikipedia, with nominations from Microsoft Indonesia KASKUS Top Innovative Web Site in 2008, and the nomination of Indosat KASKUS The Inspiring Online Award in 2009.

Andrew is now assisted by dozens of employees in managing kaskus.us, which is divided into several teams including marketing, sales, IT, and creative.

Now, the man known as the newbie 'Mimin' (short for Admin) This should be proud, DJ has become a phenomenal site that has its own terms that no other forum sites. He was listed as the pride of Indonesia talented young entrepreneurs.


With so much content in Kaskus.us, without doubt Andrew called Content Purchase (FJB) and Lounge as a visit to newbie. The newbie who come from all corners of Indonesia that could use this content for online business transactions. In one day alone, 80 thousand a list of items, included in the Buy & Sell Forum (FJB).
Now Andrew's obsession to be achieved for the development of its online business is to continue to develop content (existing facilities within the website) in Indonesia, so that later people abroad who would buy that content.