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 encarta dictionary. I mean, mudik is going to be a hot new international term.. Because the mudik phenomenon here is so powerful, and big and heartbreaking… this term, mudik, will be suitably needed to explain as a nationally special exodus from big cities once a year, no matter how hard the obstacle is.
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 unless they join a special Englsih course or having experience to study or stay abroad. The methodology of teaching and the quality of English teachers are probably two main reasons if we want to fingerpoint the major culprit.
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 was by “tolerating the spiritual aspects of Islam but containing rigorously Islam’s political expression. ”
What is the implicit meaning of that advice?
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Threaded Comment WordPress Plugins
Unfortunately, just like any other wordpress plugins, it can only be done in a self-hosted blog. WordPress.com, the free blog services owned by Automattic–the wordpress blogging platform company–has yet to include it into its by-default wordpress.com build up.
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