Love Your Neighbour We, human beings, are hardly grateful creatures to whatever privelege we are currently enjoying and tend to take it for granted unless and until we lost it. Only then we start mourning and remembering it and pray & ask for it to come back. Sometimes an individual accident or a national natural…
My Second Interview as Blogger My second interview as a blogger comes today (see my debut here, in case you want to know). It’s not from Indonesia, rather it’s from our neighbouring country, Australia. The interviewer is a senior researcher in a particular think thank organization who are interested with my posting regarding Herman Saksono…
An Indonesian Blogger Investigated by Police An Indonesian blogger of Yogyakarta has been investigated by police because he has posted the Indonesian President SBY picture along with the picture of the currently hottest controversial scandal of Bambang Trihatmojo (son of former President Suharto) & Mayangsari, a popular pop singer as reported by Detik.Com today. Photo:…
Are you the Terrorist Blogger? In the real world, the so-called terrorist defined as a person, community, or state who terrorise others through violence means for whatever reasons and purposes, either those terror acts carried out by individual, a group of individuals or states. The last criteria refers to any states who occupy other states,…
Blogger, President and his People Photo: SBY need to learn from Bush in dealing with his people criticism What do you think of President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono’s first response the time he knew that his picture has been manipulated by a blogger Indonesia, one of his own fellow citizen? Was he angry? Or was he…
On Dealing With Criticism There’re a heating and contentious debate on my several postings in this blog regarding criticism: on how to criticise; what the rule of the game to convey your criticism and whether your criticism is in accordance with the “Indonesian tradition” (I dont know exactly what does it mean? What kind of…
هذا المشجر جزء من بحثي لرسالة الماجستير (المعتمد عند الشافعية – دراسة نظرية تطبيقية) وكنت نشرتها أولا في قسم الشافعية بمنتدى الأصلين .. وعلقت على هذا المشجر بما يكشف بعض فوائده .. فقلت : أول كتاب في المذهب أصله ومتختصره وشروحه أحب أن يلاحظ طلبة الشافعية الملاحظات التالية : أول كتاب في المذهب بدأ…
Drugs and Bastardization of Modernity I had a very nice baby-face innocent-looking friend not so long time ago. I met him occasionally, but certainly he is one of those whose presence making conversation alive and congenial. His father is a colonel in Indonesian army. After intervening period of about two years, I met him again….
On Being Financially and Mentally Independent So, my friend Budi Putra has decided to be a full time blogger which means he makes his blogging activities as the only way to make a living. It also means he quits his good position as an online managing editor at Tempo magazine and Koran Tempo (Tempo newspaper)….
The Power of Giving Internet world has made a stark and unumbiguous example and lesson on the power of generosity. Of course technological innovation becomes a part of the parcel. The more you give, the more you win the heart and mind of many people. Have a look at the phenomenal fame and growth of…
Are Indonesians Great and Friendly People? 01.00 pm November 23, 2005: Question & Answer with Indonesian expats (1) After the president speech, the Ambassador as the MC in the proceeding offered three audiences to come up with their questions. I was not quick enough to do so, and losing the opportunity to ask a thousand…
On my previous posting, a commenter named Raiyen warned me that criticising your country could be meant as a sign of weakness, of inferiority complex. After I explained my points, he then clarifies his comment adding that his previous statement was based on his “fact-findings” on some his friends in Australia who feel so down…
The East-West Dialogue Many sincere and peaceful individuals in the East and the West desperately want to make a comprehensive dialogue as a step towards fruitful and flourished coexistence especially when the world become localized as a result of information technology. The question is how to do it. And how to start it in the…
Nuclear Iran Iran is going nuclear, as announced by Iranian President Ahmadinejad yesterday broadcast live on CNN. Not nuclear weapons, mind you. It’s nuclear energy. And it will remain so for at least 10 years time even if Iran wanna to make it (Iran insist it does not). But why so much hype in international…
Australia: The Older not necessarily the Wiser According to a poll conducted by public affairs firm Hawker Britton, Australian elder citizens are having more negative view as much twice as those younger ones who believed that good relations with Indonesia is important. The poll was carried out in the wake of the Indonesian anger at…
Asthmatic Breast A couple of years ago, Ulil Abshar Abdalla, co-founder of Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL) or Liberal Islam Network Indonesia, once jokingly asked us in a mailing list about Bahasa Indonesia’s informal expression of tetek bengek in English that can be understood by English speaker. Tetek bengek, literally means ‘asthmatic breast’, refers to a…
The Clash of Fundamentalism Whether you are geographically or ideologically in the East or in the West, you’ll be tempted or at least hard to resist the temptation to conclude and believe that the current brouhaha between the East (Islam) and the West (Christianity) as a result of Denmark cartoon controversy as a strong sign…
Bulan Tahun Syamsiyah atau Masehi – اَشْهُرُ السَنَةِ الشَمْسِيَّة او المليلادية Dalam Bahasa Arab, nama-nama bulan masehi memiliki dua sinonim yang sama-sama dgunakan oleh media berbahasa Arab. Misalnya, bulan Januari dalam Bahasa Arab adalah يَنايِرُ dan كـَـانُوْن الثـَّاني Bahasa Nama 2 Nama 1 Bulan Tahun Syamsiyah اَشْهُرُ السَنَةِ الشَمْسِيَّة Januari كـَـانُوْن الثـَّاني يَنايِرُ Februari شُــبَاط…
Root causes and controversies surrounding HIV/AIDS in Indonesia Many people know that, as far as HIV/AIDS sufferers in ASEAN goes, Thailand is the largest in terms of actual numbers and potential victims. Yet, Indonesian HIV/AIDS victims are growing and grows fast. Jane Wilson writes in The Jakarta Post today that “… between 169,000 and 216,000…
Menulis itu seperti membaca dua kali من يكتب يقرأ مرتين “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” –Benjamin Franklin إذا أردت أن تصبح كاتباً، اكتب “Apabila Anda ingin menjadi penulis, maka menulislah!” القلم سفير العقل، ورسوله الأنبل، ولسانه الأحول، وترجمانه الأفضل “Pena adalah duta pikiran, pembawa pesan yang paling mulia, lidah yang…
