International Women Day Yesterday (March 8, 2006) women around the world were remembered. United Nations made the day dedicated for women. Why only women? Why there’s no special day for men? One would argue that because women since time immemorial have always been oppressed by men; regarded as the second creatures on the planet earth;…
The Limits of Freedom Eversince the cartoon controversy sparks a furore in the Muslim world, I resist the tempation to comment on that matter as I intend to dedicate, and therefore confine, this page only for talking on human interest, universal values and sort of reflection note on my self, local culture and tradition: the…
Beauty and the Beast I watched the film series “Beauty and the Beast” in my childhood days, the days when Indonesian government under Suharto regime started allowing private TV channel to operate. More than only operational, it allowed the three private TVs to broadcast their own programmes without any need to relay official news by…
بتمويل جديد يبلغ 200$ مليون، تويتر يساوي 3.7$ بليون، رغم ضعف الإيرادات Twitter valued at $3.7bn despite no significant revenue Twitter bernilai $3.7 milyar walaupun tidak ada penghasilan penting. أدت الزيادة الحاصلة في قاعدة بيانات مستخدمي موقع تويتر ، التي وصل عددهم حتى الآن إلى مئة و خمسٌ و سبعون مليون مستخدم،إلى جذب تمويل جديد…
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Is Blog a Threat to Conventional Media? Indonesia “conventional” Media seems to start seeing blog with a bit more respect. Not again regard it as a teenage tool-kit or IT geeks playing ground. Kompas, the largest selling national newspaper, carried an article on May 18, 2006 with an interesting title: Pewarta Warga, Ancaman bagi Editor?…
How Long to Write a Booker Prize Novel? blue seaHow long does it take to make a Booker Prize novel? “Seven years.” If you ask Kiran Desai, the 2006 Man Booker Prize winner with her novel The Inheritance of Loss, that will be her answer. Here’s the excerpt of her interview with India newspaper The…
PostGlobal: Washington Post Blog I’ve just received an invitation to contribute to Washington Post Blog called PostGlobal. It’s moderated by David Ignatius (columnist for The Washington Post) and Fareed Zakaria (editor of Newsweek International), PostGlobal hosts weekly discussions among leading editors, journalists, and thinkers. Frankly, I’m not in the best mood lately, so I decided…
What New Blogger Wants What Blogger WantsReading Harry Sufehmi’s latest post which guides me to some other links with similar topic I come to know that there’s a case in which a new blogger got frustrated and ended up deleting her blog. The reason: none of the “elder” blogger care enough to comment in her…
Playboy Indonesia Many words being said, pros and cons, about the proposed Anti-pornography bill (RUU APP-Rancangan Undang-undang anti-pornografi/pornoaksi). For the cons the reasons are not monolitic. (1) One who likes and enjoys pornography per se and doesn’t want to lose it. No matter what. (2) Those who dont like pornography, yet they dont like the…
غوغل تحجب بيانات المستخدم من شبكة فيس بوك Google blocks user data from Facebook Google memblokir data pengguna dari Facebook اصبحت كلٌ من شبكة فيسبوك الإجتماعية وأكبر محرك بحثٍ عبر أرجاء العالم أجمع، غوغل، محل خلافٍ، إثر قيام شركة غوغل بالإعلان عن وقفها لعمليات الاستيراد التلقائية للبيانات من حسابات مستخدمي جي ميل، وذلك بهدف حماية…
It’s been quite a while that I intend to comment on Tempo Magazine latest edition that carries a long reports on blog and blogosphere in Indonesia. It’s a good news and a breakthrough of sort for Indonesian bloggers in particular and Indonesian people in general that blog and blogging phenomenon being featured in the most respected…
AGORAVOX The Citizen Media Fatih Syuhud contribution to Agoravox FranceA few days back, I received email from an Editor of Agoravox – the Citizen Media. It’s similar to Global Voices in which I also start contributing. The difference is while the latter is set-up by a US institution (Harvard), the former comes from France. In…
Bush as Dangerous as Bin Laden: British Survey Many people from the third world countries — where Muslims are in majority or not such as India– think that America under Bush and/or Republican in particular are very dangerous to the world peace as far as US foreign policy goes. But none of those the so-called…
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سؤال مطروح : هل تختفي اللغة العربية تدريجياً من معقلها ؟ Is Arabic disappearing from the Gulf? Akankah bahasa Arab lenyap dari kawasan Teluk? في إطار مناقشة القضايا المتعلقة بالهوية ،حذر أستاذ الأدب العربي في جامعة الملك سعود الدكتور مرزوق بن تنباك من إمكانية اختفاء اللغة العربية من الخليج العربي في خلال سبع سنوات وذلك…
Dewi Fortuna Anwar: Muslim’s Self-Denial on Terrorism Prof. Dr. Dewi Fortuna Anwar is one of Indonesian leading political analyst. I came to know her name the first time when she was a spokesperson of President BJ Habibie who stayed in office between 21 May 1998-20 October 1999. The first Indonesian President after the fall of…
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Cara menjadi kaya tanpa warisan orang tua 85 % orang kaya (miliarder dolar atau trilyuner rupiah) adalah hasil usaha sendiri. Hanya 15% yang berasal dari warisan. Ketika mereka ditanya bagaimana caranya, mereka menjawab: banyak membaca buku self-help 1 minggu 1 buku atau 50 buku pertahun. Yang dibaca bukan buku fiksi. (Link source) Buku self help…
Azim Premji: King of Indian IT and Humility Indian economic growth always being associated with IT technology and outsourcing. And as far as Indian IT sillicon valley goes, it’s Bangalore, a one time host for Miss Universe contest several years back. And whenever outsiders want to symbolize Indian IT hype into a form of person,…
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Google as the Trend Setter (3) Google Free-for-all Philosophy What I mean by the above title is not the trend setter in this sense. I really mean it in its literal sense. Google has set the standard for everyone to follow especially in the free-for-all services and customer-is-king philosophy. Google knows perfectly how to earn…
Rich, Educated & Humble Since time immemorial up till now either in the West or in the East, the so-called rich man always being attributed with many glamorous things: extravagant life-style, flamboyant, “un-educated”, “bad-guy”, womaniser, bossy, arrogant and many more, you name it. While the term ‘nice guy’ always been attached to those who are…
So, without much ado I left India several months ago, on March 2007 to be precise. None but a very few friends who knew that I planned to come home that night. It’s my nature that I am not so much into brouhaha thing. Personally speaking I’m a private, a sort of introvert and fond of quietness. Though…
