Strories and blogging written in English language
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (82): Sherwin Tobing Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the-so-called Netherlands East Indies, that is Indonesia, One of his famous advice to the Dutch colonial authority to win Indonesian Muslim’s heart and mind…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (81): Marisa Duma Marisa Duma Blogger Indonesia of the Week # 81Many Indonesian bloggers are basically not trained in general writing skill, not to say in journalism. It’s understandable given the fact that a blog is, shall we say, citizen journalism. A blogger sometimes just writes whatever he/she wants to…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (80): Rob Baiton Rob Baiton as Blogger Indonesia of the Week #80Frankly speaking, I dislike anonymous blogger or ghost blogger as I prefer to call it, particularly those who blog/write on such sensitive issues as politics and religion. Speaking of the latter topic without giving a clear name and identity,…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (79): Ryan Octavianus Ryan Octavianus as Blogger Indonesia of the Week #79One thing that I always suggest every new blogger who asks me as to how to be a prolific blog writer is that: don’t be too obsessed with a long tiring post and a lot of comments. As far…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (78): Abdullah Alwazin Abdullah Alwazin (Wazeen) as Blogger Indonesia of the Week #78Some few blogs I have reviewed were run by young Indonesians who are yet to finish their undergrad studies. Obviously I am looking forward to reviewing a lot more good quality content blogs by Indonesian young bloggers as…
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Anita Carmencita McCay as Blogger Indonesia of the Week #77 Some Indonesians still cannot accept the reality of a few Indonesian who stay abroad after they had done their study in order to get a better job or for some other reasons such as marriage . The former think the reluctant to go back to…
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At age 17, she was rejected from college. At age 25, her mother died from the disease. At age 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English. At age 27, she got married. Her husband abused her. Her daughter was born. At age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe depression. At age…
Countries ranked by their average IQ: 1. 🇯🇵 Japan: 106.48 2. 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 106.47 3. 🇸🇬 Singapore: 105.9 4. 🇭🇰Hong Kong: 105.34 5. 🇨🇳 China: 104.1 6. 🇰🇷 South Korea: 102.3 7. 🇧🇾 Belarus: 101.6 8. 🇫🇮 Finland: 101.2 9. 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein: 101.1 10. 🇩🇪 Germany: 100.7 16. 🇨🇦 Canada: 99.5 17. 🇦🇺 Australia: 99.2…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (76): Willy Sudiarto Raharjo Blogger Indonesia of the Week #76 To encourage new bloggers to be more active in posting their potentially precious thoughts, I wrote a blogging tip here that writing a paragraph-long posting is just as good as the longer one provided it covers the main idea you…
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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…