IT all started in an alleyway on the outskirts of Bogor. All they had to start with was ambition and drive. But, as usual, resolve was mocked. This is exactly what Ade Mulyana Aripin and friends went through.

As the story goes, four and a half years ago, Ade and several graduates of the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and Gunadarma University in Depok, applied for a license to open the Informatika Bina Generasi Vocational High School (SMK) i