There are at least top ten reasons on why an Indonesian blogger should blog in English. If you run a Bahasa Indonesia blog, like I do, you should have an English speaking blog as well. Here’s why:

1. My English writing skill is not good. I’d like to improve it by writing regularly in a medium where editorial barrier does not exist.

2. English is undoubtedly understood –though not necessarily spoken or written–by many, if not by most, influential people in the world. Hence larger audience, more visibility and influence of some sort.

3. Most internet-literate Indonesians understand English. Using English in my blog, therefore, does not hinder Indonesian readers to appreciate what I’d intend to convey to them, my primary audience.

Everyone in the universe must’ve been very familiar or at least ever heard of such popular names as Mc Donald (McD), KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Nokia, Sony, Pepsodent, and many other international brands. All the brands barely talk about themselves, not to say about their respective countries. But almost every single person knows where those brands come from. America world-widely known at least for its McD and KFC, and Japan for its Sony, Toyota, Honda, etc. As far as I am concerned, these international brands have successfully bridged world understanding towards the countries they belong without even a word of explanation.

If any true love ever exists in this world it’s the love of a mother towards her children. If any unconditional love which does not expect anything in return, it’s a mother’s love. I wrote in my Bahasa Indonesia blog that unconditional love is good and healthy on two things: the love of a mother towards her children and love of human towards one’s God. Other than these two, love should be and must be on condition of reciprocity. It’s especially true on the case of man-woman relationship.

If you update your blog regularly with original quality content and finally you get tired because your blog performance in Google is not as you want it. What to do?

First, improve the meta tag description for the blog.
Second, create different meta tag description for each and every post.

More on this just listen to what the Google Webmaster Team has to say:

Name of plugins: Top Commentators Widget
Author: Lorna Timbah (WebGrrrl.net)
Functionality: The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. This widget is easier to manage via the control form (no need to edit the PHP file); additional options are also available to make it more flexible.

The top commentators can also be set to change every month. Like the one in this blog sidebar (see, Top Ten Blogrolls for Being top commentators of the Month).

I tried my luck to be Clicksor publisher using a Bahasa Indonesia website/blog. As expected, the submission is rejected.

Some important points from the Clicksor’s rejection response can be used as the key to get accepted as Clicksor publisher:

Update 20 Jan 2010: Exactly four days after my Gmail account being temporarily disabled, it’s now active again. A email notice was sent to me this morning:

“We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced. The issue you described should now be resolved.

If you are still having trouble accessing your account and you still have access to the email address you used to create your account, please reset your password by visiting here. If you aren’t receiving the password-assistance email, please check your inbox for an email from accounts-noreply@google.com.

CO.CC can be used as your domain for your blogger.com blog instead of blogspot.com. So, you may use example.co.cc instead of example.blogspot.com. This method is called blogger custom domain. Follow these two steps:

STEP 1

1. Login to your CO.CC account, if you already have. If you don’t, create one here first.

Suppose you have created a domain in CZ.CC and you wanted to integrate it with your blogger / blogspot. In another word, you want to keep hosting your blog in blogger.com, but want to use CZ.CC as the domain, instead of blogspot.com. This is called Blogger Custom Domain. This is possible and easy, but if you’re still confused about it here are the simple steps.

1. Login to your CZ.CC account, if you already have. If you don’t, create one here first.

Transparency International (TI) has just released the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2009. The CPI shows a country’s ranking and score, the number of surveys used to determine the score, and the confidence range of the scoring.

The rank shows how one country compares to others included in the index. The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public-sector corruption in a country/territory.

Indonesia this year ranked at #111 with score 2.8 out of 10 up a little bit compared to last year at #126. Singapore is at #3 after New Zealand (#1) and Denmark (#2).

When do you think Indonesia will get 8+ score and reach the top ten?