Ten Reasons Why We Blog in English

The Jakarta Post is the only English newspaper in Indo? Umm… Halooo! I don’t think you’re aware of the publication of another English paper: The Post (if I ain’t wrong, I forgot the exact name).

Pay a visit to Gramedia once in a while and you’ll see that paper in the news stand.

@Toshihiko: you’re missing an important & substantive point. 1, 2, or even 3 is not important. it’s still outrepresent the 200-odd million people of indonesia –> this is the main thing.

Hi,

I just found the blog:

Berbanggalah dengan berbahasa Indonesia,
karena bahasa mencerminkan bangsa…
Aku dulu pernah sedih juga malah,
pas ikutan forum berbahasa Inggris,
dimana ada thread tentang posting website/blog pribadi.
Eh, pas aku nunjukin blog aku (yang lama)..
mereka komennya aneh…. “Bahasa apakah itu?”
wah.. rupanya sedikitpun kata-kata bahasa Indonesia tidak ada yang mereka kenal…

Mungkin ada baiknya kalo di kombinasi dengan bahasa indonesia juga mas.

SALAM

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for one who knows about the ways…please indicate me that ways to make blog in degree of search engine…
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Dear Fatih ..
I can’t speak English fluently. So I want to follow your way to improve my skill in writing English. Let me to write again your writing in my blog. Thanks.

It’s really inspiring reason. I was challenged to the upside-right note in this blog. sometime we feel uncomfortable to express our idea in English because so many consideration of something. Thanks for inspiring.

Makmum aja sama Cak Fatih…:-D
Eh,boso Jowonya, I totally agree lah with Cak Fatih

Dan buat @namakamu;Ya bikin aja dua blog, okeh Bos? Yg satu Endonesa satunya buat iseng pake boso manca, adil kan..:-D

I`m proud with my nationality language but with english we can develop our country with more proud.

Even we love indonesian language but its important to learn english for knowing the world and use your knowledge for Indonesian Development.

Here it is, why in English, said Mr Fatih Syuhud http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/
taken from http://fatihsyuhud.com/2007/08/19/ten-reasons-why-we-blog-in-english/

Regards,
Gading (http://gadingblogs.blogspot.com)

your english is very good, cara km mengutarakan pendapat adalah persis dan konsisten, teruskan semangat tuk menguasai dgn lebih mendalam dan PeDe always!

I’m never confident use my english. But nekat ajahh…I’m blogging in english now. Learning by doing is one of many ways to make my english better. I believe, others will understand me with my ‘belepotan’ language.

im wondering when english language is gonna be daily language in Indonesia … jangan mau kalah sama malay dunk

i am very very very agree with you, Cak Fatih. English is one of international language also one of net-language. And to get many on net -in some case- we must write our blogs/webs in English. so, pancen perlu!!

i also try to write blog in but it’s seem hard to create posts. leak of inspiration? may be yes.

anyway, you’re right Cak Fatih.

Assalam. Mas Fatih. I wanna register to part of English Blogger. Would You please help me??

#there’s no such registration to blog in English. however, if you insist, you can put your blog address and intro about it in comment box here -> http://fatihsyuhud.com/top-blogger-indonesia-of-week/

Yup… I agree that’s why we have to make our blog in english, so the others from another country can read our blog, jadi setidaknya orang2 diluar sana knows that’s Indonesian people jg bisa ngeblog sorry, aku jg belom bisa ngomong pake inggris… dan aku jg termotivasi untuk mengtranslate blog. yah… walou bahasa inggrisku sudah amburadul, coz I never use it for along time….
Dan hal itu tetap tidak mengurangi kebanggaan kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia, tapi justeru menambah kebanggaan kita sebagai bangsa Indonesia yang dikenal di luar sana, ya kan mas??
Tapi bahasa arabnya juga musti mas… kan Lughotul ‘arabiyyah lughotul jannah, shoh?

Setuju banget…walaupun cuma bisa yes or no…tapi sebisa mungkin english blog lah…

that’s what i wanna do, tapi akhirnya malas posting… but I’ll try again… inspired…

This post is good and useful because it can open up our mind.

I have copied link code of your Blog Indonesia. I have insert that into my front page. I love you and you’d love me back. Thanks

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

I really agree to this point. Writing in English in a regular basis may improve my ability. So, that’s why I just started my english blog.

mas … syuhud, kawit kapan panjenengan miwiti nyerat wonten ing BLOG ….., Blog panjengan jumlahipun pinten??? Kangge “promosi” blog panjengan ..punapa mawi iklan ing “adword” .. ??? Sak puniko panjengan lenggahipun wonten pundi ???

#saya tidak pernah pake adwords.

izin buat copy tulisannya dan di masukin ke web blog saya.

karena saya mau mencoba menigkatkan penulisa bahasa inggris.

trims

Thanks for getting me up, brother.Don’t be bored to remind me.

An indonesian who writes in english , well, seems to be more Indonesian to me. trying to write my mind Mr.fatih dunno if anyone could get into it , hahaha. — Nice site u gott here.

nice! (i’m trying to type in English, please be understand the mistakes that it may consisted)

i fully agree with your opinion.

well, actually i have no idea what to say, eheheh

pokok e, nice to know your blog

Lha pripun menawi kito nyerat ngangge basa Jawi. Supados Basa Jawi punika dodoso kasoar teng segala penjuru dunia…

Thank for you suport to write in english,may be anytime i wont try to write in english,

Nice, keep on ! I hope I could speak english, I’m trying now to learn more in English.

I know I’m not good in English, but I still have a hope that one day I’m getting better in my english.

Thanks to Mas Fatih syuhud..

Rgds
Gading

English languange 4 blogging … ??? why not

ehhhmmm sound gud…i like ur srtyle(admire)hehe…why not,,for me english is enjoy languange,,,so no reansons say I CAN’T…KEEP LEARN ENGLISH GUYS,,,

nice post, Sir.
previously, i wrote everythin’ in my blog in bahasa. then some of my buddies from overseas ask d meaning of ‘em. then i realized, i should try to write in english ( eventhough i understand that my english is bad … like we usually used to say, “Little-little sih I can” )

eniwei, i’m proud being Indonesian. I love very much our beautiful Indonesia. but i believe, loving this country doesn’t mean that we should speak in bahasa only

perhaps, when i become a RI 1 (amen…), then i’ll always speaks in bahasa … everywhere, everytime, to everybody.
so our fellow foreign countrymen (who come to visit me) must learn bahasa . sound good, eh?

“ASELI Proud being Indonesian”

How important for Indonesian bloggers to blog in English, or in other foreign languages. It’s challenging! But for some reasons, I postpone that dream because of my poor English, and Im still newbie to blogging. Anyway, Im sure that my dream will come true, insha Allah…
Eager to know my reasons ? Here they are :
First:
Im absolutely agree with pointers given by mas Fatih, particularly no. 5. That’s why I try to use “Google Translate” in my blog, although the translation is less accurate. After that, the visitors are DRAMATICALLY INCREASE UP TO 300% !!!
But I still feel unsatisfied of some LOOPHOLES and even made me laugh, ‘coz Google translates all words. Among others, my blogroll which consist of A. Fatih Syuhud blog, has been translated like this : A. Rhodeislandrock Syuhud, Blogger Indonesia…
Gosh..!
That was the second reason why I want to blog in English, written by myself. Google translate is just a tool, and he doesnt have a heart. But, regarding my obstacles, temporarily I still use Google Translate…
Hmm.. you want to know my third reason ? Just go back to the first and second one… !

ok I’ll try although its hard for me

saya mungkin akan download sofware translator,

Thanks a lot, i will try.

i prefer to the first point, it’s also my reason , why i do blog in English, nice post to affect other to start blog in english

Oke, there is a will, and planing to build a blog with english language.

But how i can get ad from adsense, since i terlanjur set indonesia as my blog’s primary language,
we knew that having two adsense account is forbidden.

Please help me..

salam blogger Indonesia.

#you can change the setting of your adsense language. or you may create a different account using your sister or wife name

make it better also good performance

i try to build a blog in englih language too

Ya, i completely agree with your opinion. We want if our readers is not limited only just for Indonesian readers, but it will be nice if it can be understood by English readers as well. Writing in English language will make our English proficiency to be better, because when we write some articles, besides we need to understand about grammar itself, we are required to choose the right usage of the words in some situations.

Even my English is not good enough, I’ll never give up. I always force myself to write in English.
But it doesn’t mean that i don’t love Bahasa Indonesia.

Anyway, thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Me

Inspiring post.

I asked one writer from England how to get her book in Indonesia and she asked me for a bookstore that can distribute her book, I recommended Gramedia. Hopefully Indonesian readers know how to learn other language because I found its limited to find an english book.

Learning is fun and languages are also fun. Arabic is the furqan language, English is the most common spoken in the world … ( Not really I read about english and its the 3rd or 4th – forgot already- and Indonesian language appears to be among top 10 spoken language )

Keep it up!!!!

What a nice posting..
Personally I’m blogging to be heard and to make friends..:)

Salam kenal
from newbie

enak ya kalau bisa lancar menggunakan bahasa inggris, bisa cas sis cus mengutarakan pendapatnya dengan bahasa yang banyak digunakan orang di dunia ini, tapi bagaimana ya belajar paham bahasa asing dengan metode yang praktis ?

#rajin menulis dan rajin membaca blog bhs inggris termasuk komentar2 di blog tsb.

nice notes, tq prend

i totally agree with you sir. if we want to up grade our ability in writing then keep on writing. there are so many people out there who can speak fluently. but when asked to write will be trembling, don’t know what to do. needless to say, writing is also important since we have the four skills: speaking, reading, listening and writing. so…keep on writing, bro

Counter argument.
Saya pikir keputusan untuk menulis dalam bahasa inggris sangat berkaitan erat dengan konten. Bahasa gak cuma tentang history in the making, tapi bahasa juga memberi ruang gerak yang berbeda bagi penulisnya.

Ada batasan kultur pada bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia. Batasan ini membuat makna dan imaji dari kata-per kata nggak akan pernah sama, bahkan ketika di tangan translator yang baik.

Jika harus disuruh memilih antara jumlah audiens dan ketersampaian maksud. Well, saya akan memilih yang terakhir.

Sukses terus buat fatihsyuhud…

mohom pencerahan, apakah widget translator saya sdh cukup untuk go internasional, atau saya harus buat blog lagi?

#sebaiknya dibuat blog lagi yg khusus bahasa inggris. akan sangat menarik.
google translate sangat tidak mencukupi untuk artikel

I’m agree with you…
Let’s make Indonesia better

nice notes, tq prend

good article.. where is your tweetthis button

#i integrate it with the feedburner feedflare. can’t you see it?

I love Indonesia language … but I blog in english , just to get google adsense

hmm.., very good. so inspiring will prepare a new one in english and wish to fly abroad with free tickets ha-ha-ha

I think, it’s very difficult to find good niche, and we can write it with our professionalsm …

I definitely agree with you, I, myself have been trying to blog in English. Even though my English isn’t good at all, but, I always push myself harder and harder everyday for a better improvement and achievement.

Everyone is welcome to visit my blog at http://www.indodaily.net, I would really appreciate any feedbacks and critiques.

Thank you for this inspiring article

Sometime I want to do as you do, but my english not very well.
Maybe I must learn more and more from you..Thank …

my english isn’t good.. but i will keep practice and try to build blog with english language.. ^_^

for practising english, writing blog with english language is good.

bener ga iku susunane? hehehe

bahasa inggris saya nol besar mas fatih.. saya belajar banyak lewat site anda, saya rasa mulai sekarang saya mencoba menulis blog lewat bahasa inggris, mencoba memahami realita. keep blogging

I guess blogging in English is one thing and nationalism is another. Using English doesn’t necessarily mean someone lacks proud of his/her own national language. Language is just a tool. Speaking Indonesian all the time with foreigners is as ridiculous as using English all the time with our fellow Indonesians. In a nutshell, use English to get wider scope of audience..
btw,Google translate isn’t reliable enough, but it’s better than nothing…
love this blog

yah pengen sih….
tapi bahasa inggris ku kacau sekali…. TT

Salam kenal mas…

Nice article

A good motivation for young bloggers like me who are still new in this world so may be useful for other colleagues, because now not only a media blog written for us but also as an enhancer of our funds yes … ngak mas

Well done. Keep moving on your creativity. I’ll follow you and read your blog. It’s just nice and very useful. Of course I’ll learn a lot from the Blog. Just like you are all, my friend, I my self am beginning to learn to write and to manage some website and blog. I found it difficult, I mean, it need our courage and creativity, patient and endurance. It’s really not an easy job, so I’d like very much appreciate what have all Indonesian Blogers done for their creativity and great efforts. Again, although English is not our language, it’s such a great language ever created by God for human global community perusal. Take every positive side from it. For those who want to discuss about Writing in English with me, may visit my site here, register and begin discussing directly with me. But we will focus our topic on Baduy, its people, land and mind. God Luck!

I realy want post article in english but my english is not good,but i want to try it to improve my english

As the international language, it’s nice to blogging learning with english. Thanks for sharing word together

yeah..i learn english with blogging

alasan yang logis.
keep moving guyssss…

good idea, nice post. visit my site

Betul juga tapi buat saya pribadi masih berat untuk ngeblog pake bahasa inggris

nice artikel.. semua pakai bhs inggris.. titik2 seng mudeng.. hehe

A blog is a place where things which incite passion in someone are written and posted. Best to ask yourself if there is an author, story and/or genre that incites that passion, then use that as a name for the blog. You may also try using an author’s last name and part of one of their more popular stories to generate a name.

Bener juga ya…jika sy bisa berbhs Inggris (blog sy bisa Tampil di Dunia)…sayang, dulu ketika masuk pelajaran bhs Inggris (sy selalu CABUT alias bolos sekolah), kalo’ gak kan, bisa seperti blognya mas “Fatih” ini (laris maniiiis..)

thanks info and good article

ikutan baca2 ya…skalian belajar ngeblog

Kalo saya emang bikin dua-duanya yg Inggris ada Indonesia juga ada

Very nice and helpful information, success for you.
If you are mind, please give me a comment or advice on my blog,an English language blog from Indonesia

http://www.supermindset.blogspot.com

a billion thanks for you.

Very nice and helpful information, success for you.
If you are mind, please give me a comment or advice on my blog,an English language blog from Indonesia
a billion thanks for you.

English is an international language. We need to improve our English since the global interactions become important nowadays. We have to be able to compete with other countries.

The international communication will mostly use English. We cannot avoid this reality. I believe that Indonesian people will become good English bloggers. Keep on moving and be successful people.

Do promotion for your blog like, Blog directory submission, rss feed submission, social bookmarking etc.

hai, your site of http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/ is now publish at my site of http://www.intothepresence.com/, my site is give dofollow link, chek at backlinkwatchdotcom, hope the love link from this site

true especially if you are blogging for money

A blog is a place where things which incite passion in someone are written and posted. Best to ask yourself if there is an author, story and/or genre that incites that passion, then use that as a name for the blog.

I believe that Indonesian people will become good English bloggers.

If your subject matter, style, personality have particularly interesting traits, try to pick a blog name based on one of these.

GOOD!

saya setuju dg postingannya

Dear Cak Fatih,
Maybe I’m too late to find your blog, but better late than never. I was redirected by someone to your fabulous English blog. My fifteen-year experiences as a national instructor (a national trainer of English trainers) forces me to agree with you in great admiration.
Please, spare some of your time to read my comments on comments in your blog. I will also, in returns, spare some of my time to visit your blog to encourage the visitors to practise and develop their English writing skills through blogging.
Your English has been almost perfect (it sounds very English). Maybe, some of your visitors feel inferior to write comments in your blog, but that’s okay. I will encourage them to write and write in English without any feeling of guilty if they make grammatical mistakes.
Success may always be yours.
Best regards.

salam kenal mas, english memang bahasa dunia,sudah selayaknya kita menggunakannya kalau ingin blog kita di kenal dunia….sukses mas

submit your blog to google for crawling.and 2nd search engine optimization.there are few websites that will create meta tags for your blog.google page rank and search result depends on meta tags.

Morning Mas Fatih, maybe with the english, all of us can to talk with other friends in the wordl not just Indonesia. Not confident if I ask with my friends, why not to learn with english, I sure, if they repeat daily to write with english, not for long to learn about english, thanks Mas Fatih, wish you happy and healty

writing in English is essential and this will increase our knowledge about the outside world.

People in the world. Hence larger audience, more visibility and influence of some sort.intellectuals are written in or translated into English.

saya bangga jadi blogger indonesia, makanya menulis pake bahasa indonesia

tapi bahasa englis perlu, karena bahasa english merupakan bahasa dunia..

nice info. keep blogging

I also use English because I want to improve the English language

oooo ternyata gitu ya, blog saya juga menggunakan bahasa inggris semua cz dipasangi adsense, sebenarnya saya ingin bahasa indonesia, cuma kata suamiku kl dipasangi adsense hrs pakai bahasa inggris…

ide bagus…tapi kapan2 saja masih belum ada waktu… masih membangun blog bahasa indonesia… pengin menepis angapan kalau cari duit pakek ppc lokal gak bisa jadi kaya… lagipula koneksi inet masih lemot… hehe

wah bener juga tuh…. pengin sih bikin blog bahasa ingris… pi yang bahasa indonesia saja jarang update…

Salut untuk Mas Fatih

The google ads displayed is according to the keyword on your blog. However, you can choose the referral ads in English.

thank mr syuhud

i’m back mr fatih

but.., i must learn more to write article in english…, because my english is low…

Sepertinya semakin indah kalau nulis di blog, English-nya maksimal.
bisa comment dan reading keliling dunia “go abroad”…

I wish try it! Keep spirit!

Salam,

makasih mas fatih, info yang sangat menarik

He is a the great person. Insya allah. Amin Waslam wr.wb

Ikut Nibrung

my english writing is not good, and still use an interpreter.

English is an international language. We need to improve our English since the global interactions become important nowadays. We have to be able to compete with other countries.

KOMPUTER WEBSITE

salam kenal mas fatih…saya dari jogja….boleh tukeran link gak mas…makasih sebelumnya

selamat pagi mas….maaf mengganggu lagi…saya mau minta tolong sama mas…tlong support…saya juga temannya mas putra (sobat sehat)..teman satu kantor mas…rencananya kami ingin buat komunitas blog juga di bangka belitung…oh ya..boleh tukeran link gak mas..punya mas sudah saya pasang di halaman sahabat apotik dengan nama fatih suyud

ada di nomor dua setelah bang isnaini saya taruh..makasih mas sebelumnya

Competition is more and more strict. We should consider to have an added-value to face this condition. By writing in English through the blogs we have a chance to improve our English and get the added-value. Be successful for all of us.

artikel yang bagus…
lam knal ma yg pny blog ini
dan semuannya

wah…mantap nii bozzz…
gw newbiee..bgt nii n perlu bgt ningkatin trafic..
n gw juga d pasang link ke alamat ini..
mohon di link balik ya bozzz
metodologibk.blogspot.com

Yup… That is what the reason ones… But as you said. Bad english is the main factor…

goog idea, i’ll do that..

Great posting, thank you for sharing

masih harus banyak belajar Mas …

9. If your blog content is good, the possibility of being published and then reviewed by prominent international book reviewer is not far away. ……
amazing…. I like it.

masih perlu banyak belajar…….nih

Berkunjung menjalin relasi, mencari ilmu yang bermanfaat.
Sukses yach ^_^

itulah kenapa gw gak PD pake bhs Ing…gw gak begitu bisa boso londho jee…

bahasa inggrisku juga kacau nih Kang,, makanya aku sering pake jasa Mbah google translate. gak tau nih apa karena IQ kurang ya..he..he, lam sukses kang. MOhon pencerahan di blog sederhanaku ini. Thank’s

Good reason to make blog in english. Thank’s Bro

I think it’s important to have things written in english, depending on who you want the readers to be.. If 100% Indonesian, then yes, it should be in Indonesian.. Or else, just do it in english, you may get promoted by other companies out there.. hehe

wow pake baha inggris aku kurang paham mas

intinya kita ingin ngejar trafik dari luar yg 0,4 persen itu khan mas?
sip
aku juga lagi nyoba boso inggris

Salut buat om fatih

regards

Great posting Mas, thank you for sharing, regard

nice for artikel…

Setuju! Nge-blog in English memang bagus buat ngelatih bhs inggris kita boss

good…………..

jangan suka posting pake bahasa inggris mas….
nanti orang kayak saya pusing bacanya…..

wuiiih keren , ,, blog nya bahasa inggris . ..

Thanks infonya mas…

makasih infonya….
btw ada info rokok yang menyehatkan nih….aneh bin ajaib yaa… kunjungi rumah kami ya…

Nice wall post…

English is the best language to communicate with foreign bloggers

Actually I wanted to write the English language in the blog. But I am not sure if my English could be understood by strangers? Finally I decided to write in my own language because they are more confident as Japanese people are also more confident in his own language. ha .. ha .. ha ..

Sometime I want to do as you do, but my english not very well.
Maybe I must learn more and more from you
terimakasih