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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (75): Nurudin JauhariSo far as Blogger Indonesia most prolific free themes / template creator goes, Nurudin Jauhari to wordpress is what Isnaini to blogger.com. Both are very capable and studious in creating new design of free templates or themes, in wordpress more known terms, for every wordpress users to use…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (74): Indrani The most romantic couple blogger. The couple, Indi and Rani, are writing continuously and regularly from everywhere they are travelling. Arguably the most passionate Indonesian blogger I have ever seen. And the first non-expert blogger whose one of their pieces in the blog appeared in the Jakarta Post…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (73): Tasa Nugraza Barley On Being Credible and Impartial Credibiity is earned through stages and various ways. In real life, a credible person connotes to someone whose words are not at variance with one actions and he or she does it in a relatively consistent way. As far as…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (72): Supriyadi Slamet Widodo supriyadi swSo far as blogging software platform goes, particularly for self-hosted blog/website, wordpress undoubtedly stands out among the rest. Matt Mullenweg, the young humble whizzkid wordpress founder (he created the software at the age of 19, four years ago.), must be very happy with this. He…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (71): Oman Fathurahman Oman Fathurahman has many dimensions as far as I am concerned. On blogging, he’s my “student”, on humility he’s obviously my teacher and as a person with pesantren background, he should be an inspiration for all santris (those who study and or graduated from pesantren) for his…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (70): Kafe Depok In 1970s, some young activists were regularly holding discussion on various topics, including on nationhood and Islam. Everytime they finish a discussion, one of them wrote his own impression on the debated stuff in his diary. When he died in a hit-and-run accident in 1971, his…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (69): Deden Rukmana An Indonesian Young Professor of Urban Studies in the US In 1993 Dr. Sri Bintang Pamungkas, in a one-day seminar I attended, expressed his happiness over the shift of policy on Indonesian higher education system that will enable a young talented scholars getting their professorship in a…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (68): Melissa Susanto green roseIn my early days of blogging, I wrote a light post on Indonesian tendency to use a single name except for certain ethnic like Bataknese that uses both their first and family name. It’s actually very typically Indonesian, which is unknown anywhere else. To us, it’s…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (67): Mohamad Mova Al Afghani An Indonesian Lawyer Blog Indonesian, and non-Indonesian who are doing business in the country, should congratulate and be grateful to Mohamad Mova Al Afghani, a professional lawyer who is eagerly willing to share his knowledge with us and for free. Indonesian blogger should also celebrate…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (66): Septian Budi Waluyan SeptianIf the future of a nation–bright or grim– could be assessed from how its young generation behaves and acts, then Indonesia and concern Indonesian should take a contemplative mood for various reasons. The costly educational fee of higher education caused by almost-zero government subsidy; the laid-back…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (65): Mellyana Lend Your Ears to Minority Voices I always like and even encourage friends around me here in India to speak up and speak out what their conscience want them to say against some malpractices some government official might have done even if you have to take a presumed…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (64): Evi Meinar Evi Meinar Kanada An Indonesian Chef in Canada There are many ways for Indonesian expats to heal the “wound” of being far away from their homecountry. And there are even more various ways to express their love and sometimes “unconscious” patriotism to it. One thing for…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (63): Maylaffayza MaylaffayzaA brainy Celebrity, a down-to-earth blogger I’ve spent a long enough time in India to complete the whole levels of studies during which I never pulang kampung (go home) to see my family and friends. If you ask why, well, it’s something to do with my early “promise”…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (62): Yusuf Asyari Reaching out to people through Blog “With this blog, I hope to be able to reach out and get in touch with our people, and establish good communications by enabling dialogue between the government and its people.” This intro word is what you’ll find when you visit…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (61): Budi Saraswati When I walked through the blogosphere the other day, I found a link the title of which caught my attention and stopped me from surfing further: Being a Civil Servant. The writer, Budi Saraswati, seems to have more prudent way than I am in discussing thing. For…
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Blogger Indonesia Reporting Indonesia to the World through Picture “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” (Aaron Siskind). Photography is an activity I am not at all good at. I used to have…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (59): Harry SufehmiThe beauty or being human, compared to animal, is that we always want to do more. For the better or the worst. So, we see this world grows, develops, progresses and at the same time deteriorates. The invention and the amazing findings in various sphere of lifes, especially…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (58): Riana Ambarsari Chef Blog for Indonesian Food Fans Riana Ambarsari is a name I should put in my post when I quoted her tribute to the demise of Bunda Zidan aka Inong. I was in the rush then, as usual. And just comes to know her true name days…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (57): Mulya Amri From the time I started blogging about a year ago, I reminded Indonesian blogger to blog “for the cause” and hence, one should try to make quality content every now and then. By “quality content” it doesn’t mean a merely thoughtful-philosophical kind of content as not everyone…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (56): William Pramana So far as traffic and Technorati ranking go, among the top ten Indonesian bloggers who got mentioned in the Tempo magazine a few weeks back, William Pramana is certainly the most deservedly blogger to have such honor. Long before Tempo magazine made the long report on Indonesian…
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