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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (94): Pramudya A. Oktavinanda

 

Blogger Indonesia of the Week (94): Pramudya A. Oktavinanda

If you used to visit many English speaking blogs written by North American or European bloggers, you’d be amazed by three things: the quality content which is triggered by passion in writing and, secondly, regular updates. Thirdly, quality comments. Have a look, for example, at Informed Comments a political blog run by Juan Cole, a professor of political science in Chicago University. The blog is updated almost daily, quality well-researched contents and very well written visitor’s comments.

In Indonesia such blog as Juan Cole’s that fit those three criteria are a rarity. I think for the time being, an Indonesian blog which fit the first criteria is very good enough. And one of those rare quality content blog is a blog run by Pramudya Azhar Oktavinanda. He, according to the intro in his blog, is “An Indonesian capitalist lawyer, a self proclaimed legal genius, an avid reader, a devoted gamer, a tasty foods lover, a part time traveler, and a day dreamer.” His self-proclaim geniusness might not be too exaaggerated as he was Universitas Indonesia’s Best Outstanding Student in 2004.

He calls himself a Capitalist Lawyer as he believes capitalism is the best system so far to “enable the society to gain the most optimal prosperity and welfare.”

Avid Reader

What does make quality content blog? A lot of reading. One cannot write a good blog post, unless he/she has a passion in reading.

And because of that avid reading tendency, Pram could write well anything in any topics. In one article he even wrote about Islam, a subject irrelevant to his major. In a blog post entitle “The Illusion of the Islamic State” he categorically stated that dreaming of establishing an Islamic state is a problem in itself instead of solving it. He concludes:

We have reached an understanding that the concept of Islamic state is mostly derived from experience not religious doctrine. As a consequence, there is no use for discussing the formal structure of the Islamic state. Don’t waste our time preaching the greatness of the Islamic state and the promise that it will bring, instead, we should really focus on how we can manage the state to provide better service to the people, and I am certain that this is relevant for the current Indonesia.

Sense of humor

As a lawyer he should be and must be a serious person. Especially when he is in action doing his duty. As human being, however, he has a sense of humor too, both words and deeds. You may see his good sense of humor when he performs an Arabic dance here or watch it below:

Top Domain Blog

Pramudya’s blog is very good one as elaborated above. That’s said, If I am allowed to give advice, I’d recommend him to have a top domain with his personal name like pramudyaoktavinanda.com with hosting still in blogger.com. Thus, no need to worry about bandwith issues. Having top domain would make his blog more personal as well as look more easy-to-remember. His friend, Mova Al Afghani has used just that: top domain with blogger.com hosting. He may learn about this Blogger costume domain here.

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49 thoughts on “Blogger Indonesia of the Week (94): Pramudya A. Oktavinanda”

  4. Salam dari manado. Mas, link balik ya! berbagi itu menyenangkan, apalagi hidup untuk bermanfaat buat orang lain.

  7. Sangat senang sekali berkunjung di sini,walau saya tidak terlalu ahli english namun sedikit bisa menangkap artikel anda.saya hanya ingin sumbang saran,nama hebat dan artikel luarbiasa seperti ini,harus bisa mengangkat nama besar indonesia di mata dunia.saya bangga dan salut mempunyai anak bangsa indonesia yang berkualitas seperti anda,,salam hormat untuk anda,mohon pencerahan!

  15. semoga tambah sukses slalu mas fatih

    bangga bila saya bisa tukar link dng anda mas fatih,link anda sudah tak pasang pada blogku,tlng link balik ya mas,maklum mas masih awam,jd saya pgn belajar melalui anda dan teman2…makasih sebelumnya

  16. salam mas bro.. semoga tambah sukses blognya..
    link sampean dah tak pasang diblogku.
    mampir” ya.. kalo bisa di pasang juga link ke tempatku.. makasihh

  17. Sudah lama saya tidak singgah di sini. Postingannya selalu segar dan informatif..
    sukses selalu…

  19. Sukses selalu mas fatih. Sudah lama saya mengidolakan anda.

    Link anda selalu terpasang di blog saya. Dengan sangat hati ini senang jika anda mau bertukar link dengan saya. Meskipun saya ini blogger pemula tp saya sangat mengidolakan blog anda.

    Terima Kasih

  22. It’s really a excellent feedback with have good video.It is an honor to be mentioned in the Indonesian Blogger of the Week. Will try to update my blog more regularly.

  23. Selamat bagi blogger hebat ini..Semoga kita bisa mencontoh kekreatifan dan kehebatannya..Amin..

  25. I encounter a lot more blogger sites, perhaps because google owns blogger and sees that their blogs get indexed, blogger uses a simpler blog design compared to wordpress which is the industry design for blog designs, using wordpress.com will provide an education that will serve you in future blog-business site work.

  26. It would be nice if the DREAM act went through. People can stop deportation anyways….. all they have to do is wait until they are arrested for driving or something that is not really a crime after spending 10 years in the country.

  27. sipppppp lah….sing jelas ak ya kepengin berprestasi kaya njenengan mas, bro…maybe sometime,sucses for u bro…

  31. his personal name like pramudyaoktavinanda.com with hosting still in blogger.com. Thus, no need to worry about bandwith issu

  34. Emang betul, sebenernya cuma 3 komponen utama, tulisan yang ga copas, he..he, kemudian blognya dirawat, terus coment/balas koment, he..he. Bagus ini

  40. Since English is an International language, we must have a brave to use it. I believe there are lot of “anak bangsa” who have ability to write and talk English fluently but don’t have enough brave. Thanks for encourage me.

  41. Thank you very much for this Mas Fatih, and also for the advice! It is an honor to be mentioned in the Indonesian Blogger of the Week. Will try to update my blog more regularly.

    Kind regards,
    Pram

  48. hi ya
    I am new in the world of bloggers, so please guidance
    we visited each other because we are a single program

  49. Yups, saya telah mengunjungi blog nya.
    saran mas memang mantap, alangkah baiknya dia menggunakan kostumasi domain biar blog nya terlihat lebih profesional. :)

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