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Click of The Week #34: A Word from Okky

Nice “Batik” design and neat layout are my first impressions about “A Word from Okky”. Okky Puspa Madasari, a female journalist and the owner of the blog. She uses it as a medium to express her opinion on the many things that happen in her life.

Her interests are basically things that are familiar for us – about poverty, peace, nature, culture, and human being. However, the way she frames her views gives the reader a different approach to the subject.

In a posting titled “Work Hard, Traveling Smart” she writes about her backpacking experience in Singapore, where she met several people that started her reflecting on the meaning of faith, sincerity and the concept of “paying it forward” with good deeds.

Her posting on “Diva Munir”, daughter of well-known human rights activist Munir, tells about her meeting with Diva while waiting for her mom, Suciwati who was meeting UN representatives that day. Okky describes how cute and cheerful Diva was, despite of how difficult it must have been for her and her mom to fight for human rights and justice for her father.

“Diva tahu Ayahnya kini telah tiada. Dia jua paham, Ibunya kini harus bekerja setiap hari – mengurangi waktu kebersamaan mereka. Namun, Diva tetap seorang anak yang belum paham teori konspirasi, permainan politik, dan pelanggaran HAM. Dia tak kenal Pollycarpus, tak tahu apa itu anggota BIN, tak juga peduli dengan Ongen.

Ketika kamera diarahkan padanya, dengan sigap Diva langsung menghadap dan melempar senyuman, tanpa peduli apa sebenarnya yang dibicarakan.”

Okky Puspa Madasari, a female journalist of Jurnal Nasional and has been in the industry for two years. Recently, she was nominated as one of the nominees for the Anugerah Adiwarta Sampoerna 2007 Awards in the hard news category.

What shines through in Okky’s writing is her passion and curiousity about the human condition.