Indonesian as Celebrities Worshipper A staff in KBRI (Indonesia embassy) New Delhi laments about our embassy officials ignorant towards what has been achieved by his 16-year-old son in tennis. No appreciation of verbal kinds, not to say in terms of financial assistance, etc. On commenting to his complain I say that our officials abroad or…
Independent Indonesia 61st Anniversary of Independent Indonesia August 17, 2006 is the 61st anniversary of Indonesia’s independence day. We celebrate this day with joy every year. The context of celebration is we have freed ourselves from the colonialism, occupation and justice inequality of one country (Netherlands) against another (Indonesia). We gain this freedom not for…
Indians Neutrality and Us I see Indian people are more neutral and knowledgeable than some of Indonesians in commenting on international political issues. A day when the US invaded Iraq and filling up media headlines around the world, a shop owner named Sanjiv which has not even finished his undergraduate study said angrily to me…
Laptop and Indonesian MPs (DPR) Despite less significant, the issue of DPR (Indonesia’s MP)’s plan to buy a laptop for each of DPR’s member assumes a bigger interests among Indonesian blogosphere. No less than 160-odd postings has been dedicated talking about this issue. The public debates on this issue focus mainly on the necessity and…
How Important True Identity for Blogger Since first time blogging, I discouraged anonymity and anonymous blogging. I call this attitude irresponsible – if you fear the heat dont enter the kitchen., and be a good kid. I wrote several posts on the important of clear identity for any blogger to earn credibility of whatever one…
Why They Blog Anonymously and We do not I keep wondering a ’little and trivial’ thing prevails in blogosphere: the tendency of westerners to blog anonymously; and the fondness of us, Indonesians, to blog otherwise ofcourse with few exception here and there. For various reasons Indonesian bloggers tend to make their blogs and their names…
Why Ghost Blogger? (2) In responding to my posting Why Ghost Blogger?, Nad’s Note turns heavily “philosophical”. :) He argues that the purpose of her being pseudonymous is, in her own words, “to minimize such tendency…” i.e. any bias of the writer concerned. Visit her good blog for full understanding of her raison d’etre Well,…
Why Ghost Blogger? As I said earlier, I know the blogger world the first time through CNN which covered the Baghdad Blogger extensively during the early Iraq War II. At that time, i signed-up to blogger.com but updated it occasionally and a bit reluctantly. I fully understood then why the Baghdad Blogger used pseudonym rather…
Muslim and Poverty Why Chinese Indonesians are generally richer than non-Chinese? Andreas Harsono, a journalist, himself a Chinese, has the answer as reported by Jawa Pos newspaper yesterday (May 11), “Because Chinese are minority. And minority everywhere tends to work harder than the majority.” He further elaborates that Javanese are hard-working community outside Java…
مقتل العشرات إثر تفجير انتحاري في إيران Dozens die in Iran suicide bombing Puluhan tewas dalam bom bunuh diri di Iran تسبب تفجير انتحاري يوم الأربعاء في مقتل 38 من الشيعة وجرح عدد أكبر من الأشخاص خلال حفل حداد كانت تطبعه أجواء روحانية مميزة على مقربة من مسجد بالجنوب الشرقي لإيران. A suicide bombing caused…
روائية سعودية تدخل منافسة جائزة بوكر للرواية العربية Saudi woman novelist makes Arabic Booker Prize shortlist Novelis wanita Arab Saudi masuk daftar Penghargaan Booker أصبحت رواية “طوق الحمام” لكاتبتها السعودية أحد الأعمال الستة التى تضمنتها القائمة القصيرة لجائزة بوكر للرواية العربية والتي اشترك فيها 16 رواية آخرى. “The Dove’s Necklace,” a book by Saudi…
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الملكة إليزابيث تنضم للعالم الإفتراضي بعد انشائها صفحة على الفيسبوك Queen Elizabeth II joins the virtual world with new Facebook page Ratu Elizabet II bergabung dunia maya dengan halaman Facebook baru قامت الملكة إليزابيث الثانية ملكة بريطانيا بإنشاء صفحة خاصة بها على موقع التواصل الإجتماعي الشهير فيسبوك. وعلى الرغم من أن الملكة لن تقوم بإستخدام…
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ويكيليكس تصارع لمكافحة القراصنة والبقاء عبر شبكة الإنترنت WikiLeaks struggles to battle hackers and stay online Wikileaks kesulitan melawan hacker dan tetap online يصارع مشغلوا ويكيليكس في مكافحتهم للقراصنة بهدف الحفاظ على وثائقهم السرية عبر شبكة الإنترنت. حيث تعرض موقع ويكيليكس الإلكتروني للهجوم منذ أن قامت بنشر ما يقرب من 250.000 وثيقةً مسربةً لوزارة الخارجية…
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According to Siri AI, The Root cause of Conflict in Middle East are Israel’s atrocities toward Palestinians and America’s Involvement in it. Here’s Siri’s answers on thes subject and I fully approve of all the points made. I think, most people would agree too. Me: “Hey Siri, describe a win-win scenario.” Siri: “Sure. An example…
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Top Ten Indonesia Blog versi Tempo In my previous post a few months back, I congratulated and fully supported Tempo Interaktif initiative to make a weekly review on Indonesia blog written by Indonesian in Bahasa Indonesia or English. The first of its kind by a conventioal media. I am not sure whether that feature is…
Top Ten Blogger Indonesia of the Year 2010 1. Budi Rahardjo 2. Bunyamin Najmi 3. Rob Baiton 4. Willy Sudiarto Raharjo 5. Rieke 6. Riana Ambarsari 7. Evi Meinar 8. Septian Budi Waluyan 9. Mohamad Mova Al Afghani 10. Nurudin Jauhari
Top Ten Blogger Indonesia of the Year 2009 1. Nadirsyah Hosen 2. Joko Anwar 3. Amalia Sanusi 4. Hermawan Kartajaya 5. Agustinus Wibowo 6. Indonesia Anonymus 7. Ahmad Qisai 8. Ninit Yunita 9. Christine Susanna Tjhin 10. Purwarno Hadinata
Top Ten Blogger Indonesia 2008 The essence of blogging, as I put it as a jargon in my Bahasa Indonesia blog, is to culturalize the tradition of writing and reading. Many Indonesians, like those who are from developing or underdeveloped nation, don’t have the habit of writing and reading. They talk a lot. Write and…
Top Ten Blogger Indonesia Year 2007 Year 2007 has witnessed the sweetest and most happening ever so far as blogger Indonesia goes. The rapid growth of blogging culture, more ministers and former minister started blogging which means more attention to this writing-and-reading culture. And finally the most amazing event of all, the Pesta Blogger 2007…
Top Ten Blogger Indonesia of the Year 2006 It’s been almost two years eversince I introduced the Blogger Indonesia of the Week’s feature during which I have witnessed the fast-growing English-speaking blogs by Indonesian blogger, a prerequisite eligibility to be reviewed. Interesting to note here that in early stage I started this feature, it’s been…