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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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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 (51): Agusti Anwar I’ve been a regular reader of Agusti Anwar’s Bahasa Indonesia Blog. His reflections are insightful and his opinions are clear and unambigious and elegantly written. So, I’ve a slight hope that someone like him should be blogging more actively in English as well. As a civil servant…
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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…