Indonesia Bird Flu

Posted on September 8, 2007 
Filed Under Indonesia, News

A new friend (I regard everyone who sends email to me as my newly-found friend) from Canada sent me email a few days back asking me whether I could tell her about someone in Indonesia who run a blog on bird flu. She desperately wants to know the latest development of bird flu outbreak in Indonesia as she feels two main sources of Indonesia media, Jakarta Post and Antara, are not enough in covering the news.

In case you know someone who run such a blog you can contact her through her email at crof [at] shaw [dot] ca.

Here’s her email to let you have a more clear picture of what she wants us to help:

I’ve visited your blog several times, and enjoyed it. Given your interest in
English-language Indonesian blogs, perhaps you can advise me.

I run H5N1 (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1), a blog about avian flu. The outbreak of cases in Tanah Karo has been very worrying–and flu bloggers in the west are trying hard to find persons who speak both English and Bahasa Indonesia (or Javanese).

It’s clear that Indonesia’s English media, like Antara and Jakarta Post, aren’t covering the story very well. Some of us are using computer translations from other Indonesian sources, but these are confusing and hard to trust.

If you’re aware of any Indonesian bloggers in English who are following the flu story, I would be grateful if you would contact them and invite them to get in touch with me. Anyone who could translate news stories into English would have an audience of thousands–including reporters for major western media, who also visit my site.

Best wishes from Vancouver,
crof

May 20, 2006



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