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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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Istilah feodalisme mengacu pada kalangan aristokrat atau keluarga raja di Inggris abad keemasan saat negara ini menjadi imperialis dan adi daya dunia. Istilah ini dalam level yg lebih lokal mengarah pada kalangan ningrat atau priyayi di Indonesia; khususnya kalangan suku Jawa yg oleh Cliffort Geertz (dalam bukunya Priyayi, Santri dan Abangan) dibagi ke dalam tiga…
Tadi malam saya kedatangan tamu terhormat yaitu pengamat politik dan olahraga PPI India, Sdr. Asnadi Hasan. Kami berdiskusi panjang tentang berbagai hal, termasuk soal Aceh, Takengon, GAM dan MoU. Obrolan panjang yg ditemani isapan rokok dan segelas chai itu, seperti biasa, sangat mengasyikkan. Namun, yg paling menarik adalah ketika Asnadi mulai membahas tentang pemain cricket…
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Catatan: Ini tulisan lama yg tercecer. Saya tulis di milis internal mahasiswa Indo di India. Karena isinya bersifat universal (intinya: self-criticism & perlunya fighting spirit) saya muat di sini. Harap maklum dan semoga bermanfaat. Congratulations! saya ucapkan buat Taufik Hidayat yg dg semangat kompetitif tinggi berhasil meraih emas satu-satunya untuk Indonesia di Olimpiade Athena. Event…
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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Itulah yang terpikir di benak saya saat saya merasa sangat kesulitan memulai menulis. Itu terjadi pada masa saya duduk di bangku SD. Sungguh sulit menyusun satu paragraf karangan yang diminta guru SD itu, sementara teman sebangku saya dengan ringan membuat beberapa paragraf dalam waktu singkat. “Aku tidak punya bakat menulis.” Pikiran itu tanpa sadar keluar…
Indonesia dan bangsa Indonesia–ya, kita-kita ini–memang “lucu.” Di sono ada kampanye kondom, kita pun ikut. Setiap 1 Desember diperingati sebagai hari HIV/AIDS sedunia, termasuk di Indonesia. Ok, ini bagus untuk mengingatkan kita agar tidak mendekati perbuatan-perbuatan yang akan berakibat terjangkit dari penyakit yang belum ditemukan obatnya itu. Tapi, agak aneh kalau kemudian untuk menghindari HIV/AIDS…
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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Sekitar 90 persen hakim di Indonesia korup dan suka memproyekkan perkara. Agung Djoko Sarwoko SH, Ketua Muda Pengawasan Mahkamah Agung (Jawa Pos, 6/12/07) Pernyataan di atas cukup mengagetkan, bukan karena rakyat Indonesia tidak tahu adanya praktik korupsi di lembaga ini, semua yang pernah berurusan dengan hukum pasti tahu soal ini. Yang mengagetkan adalah bahwa ini…
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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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (35): Carlos Patriawan A Few Indonesian Men in Silicon Valley Rahardjo Mustadjab, a senior Indonesian diplomat and former Consul General in KJRI (Konsulat Jenderal Republik Indonesia) Mumbai wrote in The Jakarta Post recently(16/02/2006) about why India, a developing countries, could produce an IT human resources in such a massive scale…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (30): Enda Nasution As I said earlier on, the salient feature of a person with leadership capacity and instinct is he/she would think of others as much as he/she thinks of him/herself. That’s why, the leaders always emerge in their own way in critical situation. They are not necessarily…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (33): Rasyad A. Parinduri Blog of an Indonesian Economist Economy is mighty important thing in life. You cannot even live without it. You can’t even read this blog if you don’t have Rupiah (Indonesian currency) to access the internet. In practical terms, It’s the only one any human being have…
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