Blogger Indonesia of the Week (74): Indrani
Posted on September 13, 2007
Filed Under Blogger Indonesia, Blogger of Week, Culture, Indonesia
Indrani has many first attributes here as Blogger Indonesia of the Week and as a lot of other things. First, Indrani is not a name of a person who own the blog, rather it’s an abbreviation of a couple names that is Indi and Rani. As far as I am concerned it’s the first couple who are blogging at the same blog address and posting randomly and therefore the first case where I make a blogger of the week out of two persons!
Second, Rani is the first blogger whose one of its blog content has been fully quoted and published by the only English-speaking Indonesian newspaper The Jakarta Post. Some lessons can be drawn from this:
(a) Indonesia media increasingly understand the power of blog and pay more attention towards blog and blogger influence; (b) the content quality of some blogger Indonesia has been acknowledged. Important to note that the couple are a pure bloggers meaning they are, as far as I know, not a professional writer or columnist, as Rani herself honestly confessed. The point is when you regularly and rigorously write whatever stuff you want to write, it’ll increase your quality as a story teller: your expression’s getting stronger and neater and methodolically more correct. This is what I’m talking about: blogging culture should be strongly encouraged to make writing as a habit for all; not only as an exclusive skill of elite club called intellectuals.
I honestly and happily would like to congratulate Rani and Indi for their never-die spirit to tell us through their blog and especially for Meutia Chairani for the good post on Indonesia TV. Allow me also to quote partly the very nice post here:
Indonesian TV: Disgusting and Distasteful
I have heard a lot of bad things about Indonesian TV, from lousy sinetrons, gory crime reportage, to invasive gossip shows. But I have never really watched them because I tried to avoid them, not wanting to waste my time. However, this time around in Indonesia, I came across with the worst piece of TV “journalism” I have ever seen.
What ticked me off is the reportage of the death of the comedian Taufik Savalas due to road accident. Indeed it was a sad loss for the comedy industry in Indonesia, as he is a good comedian and a good personality as well. He appears to be a sincere, charitable person and a loving family man. But the ten minutes TransTV reportage on his death made me want to kick the TV set.
TransTV made an exclusive story covering the reaction of Savalas’ family members in a very insensitive manner. It began with a group of TransTV crews arriving in Savalas residence close to midnight. They said that they were looking for Savalas. Obviously, the TV crews knew about Savalas’s death or at least the accident, why else would they be coming to the house? But Savalas’ wife clearly did not know anything happening with her husband as she had just arrived home from a prayer gathering. Hence the TV crews are saving the bad news from her. She showed the TV crew the last SMS that she received from Savalas, and said that she hadn’t received any reply since then.
Then the wife kindly allowed the TV crews to enter into the house. Minutes later, the wife received the sad news about Savalas’s death at her cellphone and it was clearly unexpected for her. She began to cry and fainted at the staircase. The whole house began to cry, and one person repeatedly asked the reporter to turn off the camera as it is a very sad and private moment to the family. BUT THE DAMN TRANS TV NEWS REPORTERS KEEP SHOOTING THE ENTIRE SCENE OF THE WIFE’S SADNESS. They even swarmed into the staircase to get a close-up look of the wife fainted reaction. Then the household staff carried the wife onto the second floor, trying to wake her up from the faint, and the TV crews keep following her. Minutes later, Savalas’ mother arrived, head covered with scarf but still wearing her sleeping gown. She clearly did not have the time to change clothes upon receiving the sad news. She was crying all the way from the car to the house, AND THE CAMERAS KEEP SHOOTING HER CLOSE-UP!
It was really distasteful and insensitive. IT WAS CLEARLY AN INVASION OF PRIVACY, AND I DARE TO SAY, HUMAN RIGHT ABUSE FOR THE SAKE OF SELLING TV SHOW. For God’s sake, the family is in mourning! [Read Full Story]
Other bloggers who are blogging as rigorous as Indi and Rani will get their turns, I am sure, to get one of their post appear in one or more Indonesia media. Thing to maintain is: keep blogging with original content. Quality content will automatically follows you sooner or later. No less important: enjoy blogging. None can achieve a maximum result of anything one is doing without passion that comes along with it. Indi and Rani just teach us exactly that.
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Pak Fatih Syuhud, thank you very much for your encouraging comments. Hope we all can keep on writing with our passions. Happy puasa, and we hope to be able to visit you in India someday ;>
BTW to clarify, JP did not publish my blog entry (in a sense asking my permission to publish it). Instead, a friend of mine suggested that I sent my blog entry to JP, which I did, after some editing to make the blog entry more publishable.
hey, is this the blogger who made cheese from breast milk i found in boing-boing.net?
@Rani: Thanks Rani for the additional info.
@Anymatters: thought Rani should know better.
Yes, i did the failed experimentation on making cheese out of breastmilk. Plan to re-do the experiment after I have my second child.
I love rani blog,she wrote with her pure logic language.