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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (55): Alaya Setya If you are a beginner in the blogging world, and are feeling confused on how to start making your debut post, Alaya Setya’s blog is a good blog to take a look at as an alternative style. But wait, by no means do I say that she…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (54): Devi Girsang How to have a good blog content? How to be a good and insightful blogger? Or in other words how to be a good writer? Devi Girsang, though implicitly, says loud and clear: “Love reading and writing!” She’s right. While reading is a must for recharging your…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (53): Oskar SyahbanaSukarno known more as Bung Karno (BK), the founding father and the first President of Indonesia, once said in his biography written by Cindy Adams that 10 dynamic energetic youth are enough to accompany him to build and change Indonesia towards the better future. When I walk through…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (52): Indra Pramana The first time I visit Indra Pramana’s blog was when I found his article concerning the lack–the absence, to be precise–of Indonesian food recipe blog written in English by Indonesian chef and he urges all Indonesian food bloggers to consider blogging in English. This is interesting….
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (50): Ong Hock Chuan To be honest, I am a bit doubtful about mentioning his true name as I see his current insightful blog does mention only his blog name. That makes me hesitant for quite long time to give an introduction here regarding his blog. But after I read…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (48): Maverick Indonesia When I lamented in a bit disappointment about the passive attitude of traditional media towards blogs and bloggers or you can call both as blogosphere, R.M., founder of Blog Indonesia aggregator advised me to be patient because he’s rest assured the time will come when Indonesian mainstream…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (47): Juwono SudarsonoIndonesian Blogger and Defense Minister I don’t want to talk here about a man named Juwono Sudarsono (pronounced: Yuwono Soodarsono) as a national and world figure with highly respected personality not only in terms of his personal integrity and humility, but also in terms of his achievement among…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (49): Tanty Blatind A Mosaic of Moderate Muslim I wrote here on the various kind of moderation as far as Muslim goes particularly Indonesian Muslim. A term which is often misunderstood by western analysts or pseudo-analysts if you will in which I said that a moderate Muslim is not what,…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (46): Budi RahardjoAs far as Indonesia IT goes, it’s long overdue for a person of his stature and for his blog(s) to be reviewed. But I implicitly suggested somewhere that the number is irrelevant and nothing to do with my preference. Every now and then, I deliberately pick the…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (45): Rieke housewife or career womanThe Cosmo Mama and the Sexy Chef World can sometimes share values on big issues like the need of human rights, freedom, happiness, justice and prosperity. And therefore the abovementioned virtues are called universal values. Having said that, the nitty-gritty implementation could differ because of…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (44): A0z0ra fanny surjanaEep Saifullah Fatah, an Indonesian columnist and husband of Sandrina Malakiano once wrote in an Indonesian mailing list that to be a good and prolific writer, you need to free yourself from any pressures and rules of writing. Just write what you want to write. Well, more…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (43): Anymatters These days have been a difficult days for Yogyakarta people and Indonesian bloggers are swiftly and aptly expressing their condolences and solidarities with their own various ways. The most common is by posting something relating to do with the 6.2 earthquake. Anymatters who is studying finance at Victoria…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (42): Eva Muchtar The Wanderer of a True Life and Happiness Human is the only God creatures who keeps wondering and, therefore, seeking after the true meaning of life. It happens because of unsatisfying nature of human in looking at the existing life and condition he/she is currently in or…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (41): Martin Manurung Indonesia Political-Economy Blog Indonesia blogs are growing. And grow fast. One thing that doesn’t grow, or grows so slowly is ’serious’ content, especially when we talk about English-speaking Indonesian blogger. When I talk about serious topic, it means politics and economy. Two most important components as far…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (40): Nana Podungge Notes of an Indonesian Feminist Blogger If there’s a topic which is classic and everlasting it’s feminism. Feminism becomes a talking point since time immemorial because feminism does not only connote to a name of a gender, the opposite of male, the offsprings of Eve and the…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (39): Arief Prasetyo Self-Reflection of an Indonesian Muslim A lot of words being said for or against Islam and Muslim by the so-called experts, Muslims or non-Muslims. Particularly concerning the current phenomena of terrorism and the use of violence carried out by Muslims in the West or in Muslim countries….
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (38): Budi Putra Following the downfall of Suharto regime in the late 1990s, I read a piece on Indonesia politics in Time Magazine, USA, written by Goenawan Mohamad, then the Editor-in-Chief of Tempo Magazine. There’s a brief CV in the end of his piece: Author of book Sidelines published by…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (37): Merlyna Lim I’m a bit superstitious about a certain Indonesian name. I mean even before I meet a person, once I know one’s name, I tend to ‘judge’ his/her personality. Of course I never tell anyone about this habit. So, when I saw a commenter named Merlyna Lim in…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (34): Founder Blog Indonesia One Stop ‘Shop’ for All Indonesia Blogs Theodore M. Hesburgh, considered one of the most influential figures in higher education in the 20th century, once said “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” A leadership…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (36): Primadonna Angela A Writer, Bookwormer and full time Householder How many books should you read in a month in order to be a writer? Judging from what Primadonna Angela does, at least you should read 24 books a month. Well, that’s too much, you might think. Not only too…
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