For the past few weeks, every Saturday morning, I joined in a gathering in friend`s house. Called “pengajian”, or muslims gathering, usually there`s a preacher (ustadz) speaking, and the others are listening. The topic is strictly religion-related. This one is a bit different though.
First, almost all of the audience are traders; all from west sumatera […]
People in developing countries are facing many challenges the most basic of which are corruption, injustices and poverty; widening gap between the rich and the poor; the deficit of trust between the ruler and the subject. In Indonesia, with life is…
What really happened indeed. Such fury, rage, and confusion in the last few days. I decided to dig deeper, and see if I can look back at the beginning.
Note: Prof. Juan Cole has discussed this in even more depth and details [ here ].
On Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to University of Regensburg in Germany on […]
If you are a long time friend of this blog, you must’ve read a post I wrote several months ago about how a British visitor was so impressed with our hospitality and warm attitude to everyone including to foreign guest. In case you missed it or have…
Indonesia has local parliament in its system. And just like the central parliament, its members are also democratically elected.
Yandril was among the chosen one for the local parliament of Agam, West Sumatera. A simple man from a small party, it’s a wonder really how he managed to be elected. But he did, and he started […]
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The recent survey shows that Indonesian viewers prefer more general news program, reality shows and children program rather than gossip shows or Indonesia’s soap opera-like, sinetron. The survey was released Tuesday by AGB Nielsen Media Research, part of the AC Nielsen research institute, which also regularly releases the TV ratings on which local stations rely. […]
A veteran journalist, Amir Daud, has passed away yesterday. Indonesia missed one of its great persons.
The first chief editor of The Jakarta Post and respected veteran journalist, Amir Daud, has died Saturday after he was hospitalized Tuesday at the Metropolitan Medical Center (MMC) for diabetes and heart problems. He was 78.
A lecturer of over 15 […]
Last night I watched England-Pakistan cricket match and US Open semi-final randomly and was not aware that at about 21.00 Indian time, there’s a breaking news on local tv about another bomb blast, another terrorist attack struck Malegaon, 260 km (1…
Developing countries and established nations alike are looking forward to the contributions that the next generation of mathematicians, scientists and engineers will make to society.
IBM is encouraging middle school-age girls to take their place among these future innovators through its EXITE (EXploring Interests in Technology and Engineering) camps.
More than 30 girls, aged 11 to13, took […]
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 mad…
Indonesian blogosphere got a good news last week-end: another Indonesian minister has started blogging.
Yusuf Ansy’ari, Indonesian State Minister for Public Housing, just started his own blog. His most recent posts were about the passing of his mother and a certain topic on housing policy.
Check out my CNET Asia tech post on Indonesian blogosphere.
Based on recent acquistions of Wiki site(s) by Google, Marc Fawzi of Evolving Trends believes that Google may be planning to deliver its own version of Wikipedia, by hosting the content infrastructure for individual Wiki communities.
I believe that the biggest trick that has been played on the Wikipedia leadership was to distract them and diffuse […]
Just call the researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Advanced Computing Laboratory “blade runners”. That’s because the New Mexico-based facility has replaced its conventional parallel cluster supercomputer with blade servers, compact card-based devices that promise to replace stand-alone servers.
For Los Alamos, as tech writer John Edwards described in his piece on blade server’s contemporary […]
On 31 August 2006, Head of Central Sulawesi Police Department, Oegroseno, was replaced with Badrudin Haiti. Head of Indonesian Police, General Sutanto, didn’t reject the allegation that the replacement was triggered by the delay on Febianus Tibo/Dominggus da Silva/Marinus Riwu’s execution delays.
Oegroseno’s position is now Head of Informatian and Data Processing, Telematics Division, in National […]
Indonesian bloggers mourn the sudden death of Inong popularly known as Bunda Zidan (Mother of Zidan) who died on August 31, aged 32 leaving her two kids and husband. Many condolences being attributed to her by Indonesian bloggers who knew her perso…
As reported by IHT, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) complains in the front of foreign media gathering on the resort island of Bali that brought together some 80 foreign journalists that Muslim life is less precious than non-Musl…