Ten Reasons Why We Blog in English

The Jakarta Post is the only English newspaper in Indo? Umm… Halooo! I don’t think you’re aware of the publication of another English paper: The Post (if I ain’t wrong, I forgot the exact name).

Pay a visit to Gramedia once in a while and you’ll see that paper in the news stand.

@Toshihiko: you’re missing an important & substantive point. 1, 2, or even 3 is not important. it’s still outrepresent the 200-odd million people of indonesia –> this is the main thing.

Hi,

I just found the blog:

Berbanggalah dengan berbahasa Indonesia,
karena bahasa mencerminkan bangsa…
Aku dulu pernah sedih juga malah,
pas ikutan forum berbahasa Inggris,
dimana ada thread tentang posting website/blog pribadi.
Eh, pas aku nunjukin blog aku (yang lama)..
mereka komennya aneh…. “Bahasa apakah itu?”
wah.. rupanya sedikitpun kata-kata bahasa Indonesia tidak ada yang mereka kenal…

Mungkin ada baiknya kalo di kombinasi dengan bahasa indonesia juga mas.

SALAM

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for one who knows about the ways…please indicate me that ways to make blog in degree of search engine…
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Dear Fatih ..
I can’t speak English fluently. So I want to follow your way to improve my skill in writing English. Let me to write again your writing in my blog. Thanks.

It’s really inspiring reason. I was challenged to the upside-right note in this blog. sometime we feel uncomfortable to express our idea in English because so many consideration of something. Thanks for inspiring.

Makmum aja sama Cak Fatih…:-D
Eh,boso Jowonya, I totally agree lah with Cak Fatih

Dan buat @namakamu;Ya bikin aja dua blog, okeh Bos? Yg satu Endonesa satunya buat iseng pake boso manca, adil kan..:-D

I`m proud with my nationality language but with english we can develop our country with more proud.

Even we love indonesian language but its important to learn english for knowing the world and use your knowledge for Indonesian Development.

Here it is, why in English, said Mr Fatih Syuhud http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/
taken from http://fatihsyuhud.com/2007/08/19/ten-reasons-why-we-blog-in-english/

Regards,
Gading (http://gadingblogs.blogspot.com)

your english is very good, cara km mengutarakan pendapat adalah persis dan konsisten, teruskan semangat tuk menguasai dgn lebih mendalam dan PeDe always!

I’m never confident use my english. But nekat ajahh…I’m blogging in english now. Learning by doing is one of many ways to make my english better. I believe, others will understand me with my ‘belepotan’ language.

im wondering when english language is gonna be daily language in Indonesia … jangan mau kalah sama malay dunk

i am very very very agree with you, Cak Fatih. English is one of international language also one of net-language. And to get many on net -in some case- we must write our blogs/webs in English. so, pancen perlu!!

i also try to write blog in but it’s seem hard to create posts. leak of inspiration? may be yes.

anyway, you’re right Cak Fatih.

Assalam. Mas Fatih. I wanna register to part of English Blogger. Would You please help me??

#there’s no such registration to blog in English. however, if you insist, you can put your blog address and intro about it in comment box here -> http://fatihsyuhud.com/top-blogger-indonesia-of-week/

Yup… I agree that’s why we have to make our blog in english, so the others from another country can read our blog, jadi setidaknya orang2 diluar sana knows that’s Indonesian people jg bisa ngeblog sorry, aku jg belom bisa ngomong pake inggris… dan aku jg termotivasi untuk mengtranslate blog. yah… walou bahasa inggrisku sudah amburadul, coz I never use it for along time….
Dan hal itu tetap tidak mengurangi kebanggaan kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia, tapi justeru menambah kebanggaan kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia yang dikenal di luar sana, ya kan mas??
Tapi bahasa arabnya juga musti mas… kan Lughotul ‘arabiyyah lughotul jannah, shoh?

Setuju banget…walaupun cuma bisa yes or no…tapi sebisa mungkin english blog lah…

that’s what i wanna do, tapi akhirnya malas posting… but I’ll try again… inspired…

This post is good and useful because it can open up our mind.

I have copied link code of your Blog Indonesia. I have insert that into my front page. I love you and you’d love me back. Thanks

1. My English writing skill is not good. I’d like to improve it by writing regularly in a medium where editorial barrier is non-existent.

I really agree to this point. Writing in English in a regular basis may improve my ability. So, that’s why I just started my english blog.

mas … syuhud, kawit kapan panjenengan miwiti nyerat wonten ing BLOG ….., Blog panjengan jumlahipun pinten??? Kangge “promosi” blog panjengan ..punapa mawi iklan ing “adword” .. ??? Sak puniko panjengan lenggahipun wonten pundi ???

#saya tidak pernah pake adwords.

izin buat copy tulisannya dan di masukin ke web blog saya.

karena saya mau mencoba menigkatkan penulisa bahasa inggris.

trims

Thanks for getting me up, brother.Don’t be bored to remind me.

An indonesian who writes in english , well, seems to be more Indonesian to me. trying to write my mind Mr.fatih dunno if anyone could get into it , hahaha. — Nice site u gott here.

nice! (i’m trying to type in English, please be understand the mistakes that it may consisted)

i fully agree with your opinion.

well, actually i have no idea what to say, eheheh

pokok e, nice to know your blog

Lha pripun menawi kito nyerat ngangge basa Jawi. Supados Basa Jawi punika dodoso kasoar teng segala penjuru dunia…

Thank for you suport to write in english,may be anytime i wont try to write in english,

Nice, keep on ! I hope I could speak english, I’m trying now to learn more in English.

I know I’m not good in English, but I still have a hope that one day I’m getting better in my english.

Thanks to Mas Fatih syuhud..

Rgds
Gading

English languange 4 blogging … ??? why not

ehhhmmm sound gud…i like ur srtyle(admire)hehe…why not,,for me english is enjoy languange,,,so no reansons say I CAN’T…KEEP LEARN ENGLISH GUYS,,,

nice post, Sir.
previously, i wrote everythin’ in my blog in bahasa. then some of my buddies from overseas ask d meaning of ‘em. then i realized, i should try to write in english ( eventhough i understand that my english is bad … like we usually used to say, “Little-little sih I can” )

eniwei, i’m proud being Indonesian. I love very much our beautiful Indonesia. but i believe, loving this country doesn’t mean that we should speak in bahasa only

perhaps, when i become a RI 1 (amen…), then i’ll always speaks in bahasa … everywhere, everytime, to everybody.
so our fellow foreign countrymen (who come to visit me) must learn bahasa . sound good, eh?

“ASELI Proud being Indonesian”

How important for Indonesian bloggers to blog in English, or in other foreign languages. It’s challenging! But for some reasons, I postpone that dream because of my poor English, and Im still newbie to blogging. Anyway, Im sure that my dream will come true, insha Allah…
Eager to know my reasons ? Here they are :
First:
Im absolutely agree with pointers given by mas Fatih, particularly no. 5. That’s why I try to use “Google Translate” in my blog, although the translation is less accurate. After that, the visitors are DRAMATICALLY INCREASE UP TO 300% !!!
But I still feel unsatisfied of some LOOPHOLES and even made me laugh, ‘coz Google translates all words. Among others, my blogroll which consist of A. Fatih Syuhud blog, has been translated like this : A. Rhodeislandrock Syuhud, Blogger Indonesia…
Gosh..!
That was the second reason why I want to blog in English, written by myself. Google translate is just a tool, and he doesnt have a heart. But, regarding my obstacles, temporarily I still use Google Translate…
Hmm.. you want to know my third reason ? Just go back to the first and second one… !

ok I’ll try although its hard for me

saya mungkin akan download sofware translator,

Thanks a lot, i will try.

i prefer to the first point, it’s also my reason , why i do blog in English, nice post to affect other to start blog in english

Oke, there is a will, and planing to build a blog with english language.

But how i can get ad from adsense, since i terlanjur set indonesia as my blog’s primary language,
we knew that having two adsense account is forbidden.

Please help me..

salam blogger Indonesia.

#you can change the setting of your adsense language. or you may create a different account using your sister or wife name

make it better also good performance

i try to build a blog in englih language too

Ya, i completely agree with your opinion. We want if our readers is not limited only just for Indonesian readers, but it will be nice if it can be understood by English readers as well. Writing in English language will make our English proficiency to be better, because when we write some articles, besides we need to understand about grammar itself, we are required to choose the right usage of the words in some situations.

Even my English is not good enough, I’ll never give up. I always force myself to write in English.
But it doesn’t mean that i don’t love Bahasa Indonesia.

Anyway, thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Me

Inspiring post.

I asked one writer from England how to get her book in Indonesia and she asked me for a bookstore that can distribute her book, I recommended Gramedia. Hopefully Indonesian readers know how to learn other language because I found its limited to find an english book.

Learning is fun and languages are also fun. Arabic is the furqan language, English is the most common spoken in the world … ( Not really I read about english and its the 3rd or 4th – forgot already- and Indonesian language appears to be among top 10 spoken language )

Keep it up!!!!

What a nice posting..
Personally I’m blogging to be heard and to make friends..:)

Salam kenal
from newbie

enak ya kalau bisa lancar menggunakan bahasa inggris, bisa cas sis cus mengutarakan pendapatnya dengan bahasa yang banyak digunakan orang di dunia ini, tapi bagaimana ya belajar paham bahasa asing dengan metode yang praktis ?

#rajin menulis dan rajin membaca blog bhs inggris termasuk komentar2 di blog tsb.

nice notes, tq prend

i totally agree with you sir. if we want to up grade our ability in writing then keep on writing. there are so many people out there who can speak fluently. but when asked to write will be trembling, don’t know what to do. needless to say, writing is also important since we have the four skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing. so…keep on writing, bro

Counter argument.
Saya pikir keputusan untuk menulis dalam bahasa inggris sangat berkaitan erat dengan konten. Bahasa gak cuma tentang history in the making, tapi bahasa juga memberi ruang gerak yang berbeda bagi penulisnya.

Ada batasan kultur pada bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia. Batasan ini membuat makna dan imaji dari kata-per kata nggak akan pernah sama, bahkan ketika di tangan translator yang baik.

Jika harus disuruh memilih antara jumlah audiens dan ketersampaian maksud. Well, saya akan memilih yang terakhir.

Sukses terus buat fatihsyuhud…

mohom pencerahan, apakah widget translator saya sdh cukup untuk go internasional, atau saya harus buat blog lagi?

#sebaiknya dibuat blog lagi yg khusus bahasa inggris. akan sangat menarik.
google translate sangat tidak mencukupi untuk artikel

I’m agree with you…
Let’s make Indonesia better

nice notes, tq prend

good article.. where is your tweetthis button

#i integrate it with the feedburner feedflare. can’t you see it?

I love Indonesia language … but I blog in english , just to get google adsense

hmm.., very good. so inspiring will prepare a new one in english and wish to fly abroad with free tickets ha-ha-ha

I think, it’s very difficult to find good niche, and we can write it with our professionalsm …