Blogger Indonesia of the Week (91): Yansen
Posted on May 2, 2009
Any 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 that this habit of single-name is practiced by all strata of Indonesian society.
I myself regards this thing as normal until the first time I travel abroad with a single-name friend when an airport official complained to him. In another word, an Indonesian who considers a single-name as “unusual” must have travelled to another country at least once.
That’s why when I read Yansen profile and he highlights his single-name, I knew he’s been abroad and might have an experience in which his single name did put him into trouble a little bit or raise his friends’ eyebrows. Here what he’s to say:
“G for green chronicle” is Yansen. He was born in Kepahiang, a small town in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra. He doesn’t have a family name. Yup, that may be funny. But, most Indonesians don’t have family names. In fact, a lot of Indonesians only have one single name, just like him.
If you read his profile further, you’d come to know that the single-name stuff is just the only light thing he writes. Other than that, he’s got a very good blog meaning a blog with a very good content. And that should not make you wonder. His brief CV would tell you the reason:
After receiving a Bachelor of Forestry in 2002 from Department of Forestry, University of Bengkulu, he was appointed as an associate lecturer at the same department a year after. He was awarded Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) to do master degree in 2005. He went to James Cook University, Queensland and studied at the School of Tropical Biology. He finished his master in 2007. Early 2008, he won an Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarship to do PhD. He is now doing PhD at James Cook University.
If you read Indonesian newspapers both in English and Bahasa Indonesia regularly, you’d find his name every now and then outthere in Op-ed pages focusing on such topics as conservation, environment, forestry and agriculture. If you don’t, you can still enjoy his writing in his blog.
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As I wrote here, a blog with a particular niche and written by a person with academic authority could be called as an expert blog. A blog that would have a real contribution and impact in the long term and that will have serious attention from serious people. Such very good blog may not be instantly popular especially as far as Indonesian readers are concerned. One thing the author should remember is that he should not be discouraged by that. Because so far as blog goes, quality content may not automatically be in line with the amount of visitors and comments a blog gets. Likewise, a high traffic blog doesn’t necessarily have to do with quality content.
On our part, we should encourage people like Yansen to write more rigorously in his blog by having a visit or two to his blog and writing a good comment there. Making a good comment is a good start to create a good article and thus a good blog as well.
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i hope next time you will explain my stori here
Wah selamat buat Pak Yansen, Anda emang patut mendapatkannya. sukses selalu buat mas Fatih.
Nice…..
Have a good day.If you have free time.Let you visit and vote my blog.
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Congratulation to the chosen one, wishing it could be inspired to everyone, especially to me, in order to have a mutual blog.
Thanks a lot Fatih for the review. To be honest, I am a new kid on the (blog) block. So getting this kind of appreciations from the famous Indonesian blogger like you make me honored. I know that my blog might be boring, since it is just a collection of my published opinions in the media (even though some are unpublished ones). But, as publishing our opinions in the media is just a one way communication, we don’t know what people think about our thoughts. Blog provide possibilities for two ways communications by allowing comments from the reader.
Again, thanks a lot for the review.
Great to know his blog!
congrotulation, good job and Let me visit and vote you blog.
selamat pak yansen, sukses selalu
wow blognya indonesia pake b.ing pengungjugnya rame bener..mantap deh
great, its realy wondering to read fatih blog..
up to now i couldn’t write in my blog daily as mas fatih. i do hope i will be like mas fatih…
realy your writing could motivate me much to be active blogger not only active in facebook….
i’m waiting mas fatih 2 see my blog
http://warung-bisnis-online.blogspot.com
thanxs
wah blog yang keren neh..banyak yang di review,,kapan yah blog saya di review…(mimpi mode: on)
He is one of my best colleagues.
ajarin donk..harus pr 1 ya baru bisa menghasilkan
wake me up from this dream please help me out….
selamat ya..
hehehe..
keren …
jd pgn dech…
makin sip aja konten blog ini
selamat…
Congratulation and success always
always blogger indonesian
succes selalu
wow…, good posting….
nice to meet you!!!
linkback me yah mas…
heheheh
thx b4
sometime and many Indonesian people with a single name or without family name get a discrimination when it comes to fill most of international forms, since most of the forms are in the format of “Given Name” and “Family Name”.
Kapan ya aku jadi blogger of the week??
wow, I hope I will become Blogger of the week too
With a very good educational background Yansen will be able to give value to his blog readers. It will make blogging as an education reference instead of textbook.
Thank Mas Fatih. Good review.
yea, thanks alot for your inspiration
GREAT. and hope next time, my name record to world history
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good review, i think in the future i shall give my son a singel name….):
nice for review.. I like it.
congratulation
I’m very very proud to this blog…..Great ! Please teach me how to make a blog like this ! TOP MARKOTOP SUROTOP
berkunjung ke blogger indonesia
good luck…,when i will be blogger of this week like this….,i hope this is not just a dream…
sangat bermanfaat bagi para blogger indonesia… hebat mas fatih…
kapan ya saya bisa di review sama master fatih… keren pastinya…
i , so far still in process, am a learner of writing blog in english as you’ve done,
it’s been long time ago that i’ve noticed about this indonesian unique tradition in the way they named his son or doughter, with only one single name, there’s no additional name, moreover family name, to me, i have last name, but it is not a family name, i see that in indonesia tradition, name is about a hope of parents to their kid in the future of life, so not quite like in western, who most the name is taken merely as identity sake, so, there;s no wrong point about our way of name, it’s just make us unique. but i see a new phenomena nowadays that most of my friends try to put their last name (even if it’s not the family name) to their newborn baby, they said “to start a dynasty”, it’s ok. but for me, i’ll keep my indonesian way of naming, no family name behind name..
wah di review gratisan enak jga ya
oh ya mas ngomong2 linkx dah dipasang tunggu link back
Salut dengan anak bangsa yang bisa nembus menjadi bloggertop
http://www.gitopejatenmas.co.cc
i like it, maju trus blogger indonesia, link mas sudah saya passang mas,… say tgu dari mas…
When my name will be shown here?
Dunia web di indonesia dah mulai makin maju pesat nih kayanya… sip deh buat Webster2 Dalam negeri…
Wah tapi dulu saya sempet liat juga blogger-blogger yang lainnya saat makan di resto gajah wong jogjakarta…
Salut aku, jogja sebagai perkumpulan blogger seluruh dunia…
Nice…..
Have a good day.If you have free time.Let you visit and vote my blog.
Single = Simple….
Memulai Bisnis Pulsa
good one thanks for the share
Dear Mr Fatih..I’ve added your banner into my blog, would you like to add my link back please……..
it`s a great blog, cool!!
wah mau juga dunk dibahas profilnya….
dari Myokezone
wadu bunk pake inggris deh…
omm….bisa tuker link gak??
coba cek dulu…
dalam satu bulan masak alexa dari 13 juta udah bisa 850rbu…
cek ke pandumusica.blogspot.com
nice post
apresiasi untuk blogger yang dilakukan oleh bunag fatih, patut mendapat acungan jempol. tradisi yang baik, untuk meningkatkan kualitas blogger kita. adakah blogger senior yang memberikan apresiasi semacam ini tapi untuk blogger dalam bahasa indonesia
G for green chronicle dan saya menemukan artikel anda
Krisis ekonomi, perubahan iklim dan natural capitalism dan invasi bilogis
bung yansen menarik dan tepat waktu, blog hijau anda…..
selamatkan bumi, selamatkan manusia
waw, nice post, btw i`ve add your link into my blog, maybe you want to visit me and give some advice to this beginner, very proudly…
what a man!!! dig the potention always
komen nya banyak banget.bro
congrate
congrate juga..
try to read this blog
http://syukriy.wordpress.com
what do you think?
Congratulation……
blog with a special topic that be written by an expert in the field will always be visited by many in searcher of information on particular area
congratulations da..! mantabs tu!
semoga ja Q jadi blogger week selanjutnya…Okey mas Fatih
Waaaaaaaaah.. manstaaaabbbssss surantaaaabbssss
Salam Sayang
hello,
I hope this article will be allnost favorites by the commentators.it is relay nice .
niche informations. Thats all of info give me my favorites news
This is a good blog and have a nice post with nice article with related more information.Thanks…
that’s great!
congrats…
hope next time will be mine…
lucky guy… with many skills ofcourse
saia kapan bisa masuk kek gni ea.. ^^,
hihii.. ngarep bgd..
mampir aja deh dipagi hari..
selamat atas terpilihnya deh mas
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thanks
Have a good day.If you have free time.Let you visit and vote my blog.
Have a good day and succses.If you have free time.Let you visit and vote my blog.
Have a good day and always sucssess.If you have free time.Let you visit and vote my blog oke,This is a good blog and have a nice post with nice article with related more information.Thanks…
keep it up this nice post………..
this is my first visit..
nice to know your blog
regard
keep it up……..this nice sharing….
Media is important to build a connection between the writer and the reader. Blog is one kind of media. The best blogger who can provide interesting articles will certainly get many readers who like to put comments on the chosen articles. It should be said that the blog contents are very important. Although it is only a single word, the blogger name can become famous because of the blog contents.
1. I would like to say congratulation to this inspiring blog.
2. Ada benarnya juga kalau punya satu nama bakal dapat masalah bila berada di luar negeri. Ini persis seperti pengalaman pribadi waktu pertama kali ikut kuliah di aussi. Dari sekian banyak mahasiswa, cuma sy sendiri yang punya satu nama. Ketika di absen, pas dipanggil nama sy, semua tertawa. Sy sndri bingung kenapa. apalagi nama2 student dipampang pakai slide. Dosennya bertanya, “jadi anda tidak punya keluarga?” sekali lagi semua tertawa riuh.
duhhhh senangnya dapat di promosikan oleh blog yang terkenal, kapan yah giliranku.
bannernya mas fatih sudah di pasang, link back please..
Bagaimana cara nya biar saya bisa masuk indonesian blogger of the week..?? hehe
congratulations… keep move on..^__^
Wow keren …….. Blogger Indonesia of the Week
selamat buat pak yansen….
gmana caranya biar masuk blogger of the week?
How can u have 5 page rank? thats marvellous
Congratulation….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
blogwalking..sklaian tuker link y?
kampret loe
selamat bro, semoga berjaya terus
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kapna saya bisa terdaftar disini….
wah selamat gan!!
selamat!!
wah kalo org pinter ngeblog bakal susah ditandingin tuh isi blognya. Salut gan !