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Culture and Society: an Indonesian Blogger Perspective is a book which is based on collection of A. Fatih Syuhud’s notes during his stay as students in India in which he actived wrote in English during that time.
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (95): Matthew Isaac Cohen Matthew Isaac CohenMatthew Isaac Cohen, as he describes himself in his Blogger blog, is a Professor of International Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. The reason why he is picked as Blogger Indonesia of the week this time around is because of his another unlikely…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (94): Pramudya A. Oktavinanda If you used to visit many English speaking blogs written by North American or European bloggers, you’d be amazed by three things: the quality content which is triggered by passion in writing and, secondly, regular updates. Thirdly, quality comments. Have a look, for example, at…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (93): Sash Milne On 27 May 2010, an Australian blogger and traveler commented on Blogger Indonesia of the Week’s Page thus: I discovered your site for the first time today, and it’s very interesting to trawl through your past posts. I’m very interested in Indonesian culture, religion and people. I…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (92): Alia Makki alia makkiWhen a person calls herself Hning Swara commented in one of my post, I was impressed with the way she expresses her opinion. I was impressed even more when I visited her blog– back then in blogspot. She certainly has the talent and obviously is a…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (91): Yansen Yansen bengkulu IndonesiaAny non-Indonesian who has a little more time to take a closer look at Indonesian culture might wonder about one thing unique about this nation: a widely common use of single name. Two of Indonesian first presidents, Sukarno and Suharto, are using a single name. Symbolizing…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (90): Kurniadi Widodo “A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams” I always have a camera since my teenage years from…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (89): Mulia Nurhasan mulia nurhasanAs far as Muslim women is concerned, there’s nothing more controversial than a piece of cloth called headscarf or veil. Popularly known here in Indonesia as jilbab[1]. The simplicity of jilbab or head scarf doesn’t make the effects simpler. In reality, jilbab pros and cons that…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (88): Imdad Robbani “Like many Indonesians, Lolo[1] followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (87): Pan Mohamad Faiz Pan Mohamad Faiz is a visionary blogger and a man-of-principle personality, so to speak. He knows what he wants to do. When the first time I met him in my last-year stay in India in 2007 he asked me how to make a blog. At…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (86): Agni Amorita When I was looking for a blog post on Hari Raya Idul Fitri 2008/1429, I found an interesting article on mudik tradition written by Agni Amorita aka Mbak Rita thus: If I were a linguist, I will put mudik (going home) as the newest entry for the…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (85): Hendro Darsono I wrote somewhere about English teaching in Indonesia thus: Despite English language teaching starts from the junior high school (Class VII) in Indonesia educational system, and is supposed to be the second language after Bahasa Indonesia, instead of Dutch, the students are hardly conversant to this language…
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Blogger Indonesia of the Week (84): Muhyiddin I hardly review a blog owned by a PNS (Pegawai Negeri Sipil) – an Indonesian civil servant. Most of the times I wrote very disgenerous articles–both in my English or in Bahasa Indonesia blogs– to them, the bureaucrats as a people or as an institution. See for example…
Blogger Indonesia of the Week (83): Rima Fauzi Rima Fauzi blogger of the week # 82World is beautiful, every normal and spirited being thinks so. The most salient feature of its beauty lies in the heterogeneity of its populace called human. The differences of our physical appearance,colors of our skin, our eyes and hairs. And…
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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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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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