Comments on: On Bridge Blogging

By: Fatih

Fatih — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:24:46 +0000

@Anita: nice to hear that Anita. you do make your bit to make indonesia more known. and thanks for the link, as always i reciprocate in kind.

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:37:15 +0000

I can make peace if the purpose is to make Indonesia more known to the outside world. I do hope what I’ve done so far contribute positively to those who read.

PS: I’ve put a link to your blog, hope you don’t mind.

Cheers!

By: Fatih

Fatih — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:46:14 +0000

@Anita: no matter what your intention is, as far as you identify yourself as an Indonesian, you’ll contribute– whatever little it could be–to make indonesia more known to the outside world -> this is the main idea.

“Change the world” is too strong a word. no body can do it in one stroke of a bomb, not to say a pen. but by writing in english, you do your bit even if you dont intentionally make it that way.

may be your writing is a spec of dust, but the “dust” of 200 million people (if they all blog in english) certainly will be a lot of “dust” that people in other parts of the world can’t ignore.

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:04:22 +0000

I blog in English with a very simple reason, to have my family who can’t speak Indonesian understand what I’m writing about.

Call me cynical but I don’t think by blogging in English we could change the world’s perspective about Indonesia. It takes more than just blogging (read: writing).

So I don’t see the purpose of bridge-blogging is to ‘promote’ or to send positive images about Indonesia, at least not to my case. It’s a merely to reach broader range readers.

By: drt

drt — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:24:00 +0000

Berapa hari lalu ada yang komentar di blog saya tentang Bridge Blog. Saya kagak mudeng. Saya pikir gara-gara foto jembatan merah yang ada dalam gambar headernya. Salut atas usaha dan karya anda.

Wah, tambah ramai ini. Cablo, Jablo, Pablo, Peblo, Jablo. Tapi, oops, yang ini nggak bisa disebut jemblo tetapi blojem atau blotan.

Tabik.

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By: Azura

Azura — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:35:06 +0000

I understand what you are saying here, Im Malaysian and enjoy reading thoughts of blogger from Indonesia, but they are times when I dont understands some words they said , let alone slangs they used , but then again it taught and encouraged me to pick Indonesian slangs by asking from Indonesian friends in Kuala Lumpur.

By: Budi Saraswati

Budi Saraswati — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:04:13 +0000

Hi Fatih, I agree with you that we don’t have to write about Indonesia in specific to be named “bridge blogging”. Simply by blogging in English and let the readers know we’re Indonesian (whether live in Indonesia or abroad), is like bringing a voice of Indonesia to the blogosphere, be it soft or loud.

I enforce myself to blog in English. I have to admit: it is far from easy. However, when someone left a comment or two, I knew then that the voice was heard.

Btw, could you link my blog Writing from My Desk to your blogroll? In your previous template, my other blog: Buku-Buku-Buku! was linked here. But I don’t see the link anymore. Thank you.

By: Kurniawan

Kurniawan — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:20:53 +0000

I agree with you. We need more Indonesians to blog in English language. Seems quite difficult for most Indonesians, as I recently talked with a 20-year-old student from a prestigius university in Karawaci. The student preferred to blog in Bahasa Indonesia, which is easier. It might need campaign from senior bloggers to encourage Indonesians to blog in English.

Btw, thx for the info on Isnaeni. Regards, iwan

By: Fatih

Fatih — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:07:54 +0000

@mulia: to be simple: as you have self-hosted blog, you can just create two blogs at the same domain; english and indonesian, say, english.nurhasan.net and mulia.nurhasan.net etc. there should be no longer dilemma afterwards