On Bridge Blogging: The List and More

Still on the Bridge Blogging topic, I’ve compiled a short list of bridge blogs you may haven’t discovered before.

First, check these blogs out as well, it is compiled by Ong Hock Chuan, the facilitator for Bridge Bloggers group in –again!– Pesta Blogger 2007, a national gathering for Indonesian bloggers:

Angga’s Personal Blog
Batik Antik
Bits of Life
Blogger Indonesia
Bleu
Cafe Salemba
Chipping In
Enda Quicklinks
Harry on Things
Indi + Rani = Noe
Indonesia Anonymus
Juwono Sudarsono
Life is Beautiful
Martin Manurung
Maverick Indonesia
Mediacare
My Busy Brain
NadiFebina.com
Opinion Counts
Precious Moments
Shisy Kozzy
The Absent-Minded Cook
Treespotting
Wazeen’s Blog
Witch Doctor

And a recommendation plus review for everyone. Just click the arrows.

Indonesia on DA. The journal for Indonesian young artists, all gathered and piled up in DeviantArt world community for art. The entries consisted of announcements, events, job vacancies, knowledge base articles, member lists, shoutbox, and a forum. The journal features its Hall of Fame, displaying Indonesian members achievements on DeviantArt, mostly in photography and digital artworks. I’m proud. We’re proud. Tears are running down my cheeks, and I don’t even like emo.

Blog 4 Communication. Authored by Bhayu M.H, a communication professional with vast experiences. His blog consisted of commentary articles on the world of advertising, communications, public relation, and journalism in Indonesia. An interestingly patriotic blog, I could almost salute The Sacred Red and White while reading it. That post on the West Wing episode is a must-read, and there you’ll also find the English version of the Youth Oath. March on, countrymen.

Indonesia Portal Blog. A blog on anything Indonesia. The blog is authored by a German but it’s also co-authored by Indonesians. It is both written in English and Germany (Deutsch is different from Dutch!). Not many blogs on Indonesia are written in Germany, so I bless the day I bumped into this one. The headline says “a keen insight on Indonesia” and if it’s on German-mode, it says “Indonesian von A - Z”. And you know what we’d love the most about it, this picture:

Aaaaawww. Take a look at those bules biting off the krupuks.

A Feminist Blog. A personal blog of Nana Podungge, an Indonesian woman living in Semarang. Call me vain, we all have read blogs authored by famous and successful women before and most people would call them feminists, but those blogs cannot come this close to feminism. The commentary articles contribute extensive analysis on Islam and feminism, Indonesia’s patriarchal culture, domestic violence, and polygamy. There are also articles on literature, creative writing, and so forth. All personally viewed from a woman.

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And these are the sites I recommend for translation to English. Can’t help it. I just gotta slip them in somewhere.

Djaman Doeloe. Djaman Doeloe is the blog for Indonesia’s olden days. It archives documentations of Indonesia’s historical artifacts, historical sites, and profiles of famous Indonesian people of the past. View this site in Batavia Cafe down at Fatahillah, while sipping hot arabica coffee, and listening to the ghostly sound of an old vinyl. It seemed Smaradhini, the author of this blog, is really fond of “Bang Adang” or Adang Daridjatun, this year’s candidate for Jakarta’s governor (He lost. Fauzi Bowo wins.). Well, either Bang Adang is really that charming, or you-know-for-what-reason. Check also this blog from the same author, Kota Tua.

Rumah Kiri. We just can never get enough of controversial sites such as this one, this site have been said of spreading Marxist communism on the soils of modern Pancasila. Feisty. Nonetheless, this Joomla-powered site can pull in a significant number of users, already 1988 of them registered. Not necessarily what you call communists, as the commentary articles published aren’t all about communism. Most of the entries are results of observing Indonesia’s political predicaments, on democracy, monetary binds, civic rights, social issues, and interpreting the subjects “accordingly”. The site behaves more like a political watch of the government, instead of the just-because-it’s-controversial type of commie.

Aliansi Petani Indonesia or Indonesian Peasant Alliance. Now this is what the world needs to know, since Indonesia is primarily built by its agriculture industries –or at least, it used to be. So, okay, will this site be all about plants and trees then? Well, yes, but in an activism way of perceiving; it is exposing the relation between agrarian movements in Indonesia and its never-ending struggle with the political bureucracy. It’s more of monetary rights, the global market, agrobusiness, international treaties, and so forth. Just view the pictures on the site, you’ll understand what I mean.

From the above list, as you see, there’s a lot more to represent from Indonesia.
Hope it inspires people to bridge blog according to their own life choices, exploring many possibilities found in the country. As the saying goes “Throw a seed on the grounds of Indonesia, and you’ll have a fruitful garden.”.

Anyways, the photograph on the top is courtesy of Gusde-I B. Pradnyana aka pistonbroke. Find here for more Indonesia-related artworks produced by Indonesian kids.

That’s it. After this, I’m gonna blog about cats. Or (anti-Indon) Malaysians. Or something else.

Happy Heroes Day. Merdeka!

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