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1. Open-end question. There is no definite right or wrong answer, however, you cannot answer it by fixing the government regulation because the question is asking, you as an Indonesian company, what should you do, not what should the Indonesian government be. Some answer can be found in the Moving Up The Value Chain, not all because some are not applicable in Indonesia.

2. Open-end question. There is no definite right or wrong answer. Most answers are acceptable, however, you need to think of the benefits and the drawbacks of your forecasted demand. Need to check the possible deviation of your forecast. Defend your judgement well.

3. They use a qualitative method where individual judgement, intuition, surveys, or comparative techniques are being applied. The underlying assumption is that individual judgements are accurate due to their interaction to the customers. This method is used to predict the success of new products due to unavailability of historical data. It is applicable and it may valid. The disadvantages are it is subjective and it may not be accurate. It depends greatly on the expertise of the decision makers. The nonscientific nature of the methods makes them difficult to standardize and validate for accuracy. The advantage is this method invites employees to be involved in forecasting an item.

a. Route 1: 1-8-9-10-6-7-1

Route 2: 1-5-4-2-3-1 or 1-5-4-2-3-1

d. By observing that tours are partially included in each other and that they intersect three times, we are led to attempt some modifications seeking an improvement on the earlier solution.