Maverick Indonesia

Click of The Week #37: Asep Setiawan

Asep Setiawan writes about many things in his blog “Jurnal Inspirasional Asep Setiawan”.He writes about the World Wide Web because of his experience of leading Kompas Cyber Media in 1999-2000. He also writes about his journalism adventures, his family and education for his children, his spiritual journey, and stories that inspire him.

From all his postings, however, I enjoy most those that bring up little matters that we don’t usually pay attention to, like the Gambir shoe shiner.

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Click of the Week #36: Irawan Santoso

“Not just an ordinary journalist, but one who comprehends the law,” wrote Irawan Santoso describing himself in a nutshell. How true!

His last post was on Themis, the Goddess of Justice, whom he said was respected by the big guys in the Indonesian law sector from the likes of lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution to Supreme Court Chief Justice Bagir Manan.

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Click of the Week #35: Captured of Eyes

“Captured of Eyes” is the name of the blog. It is hard for me to digest what these three words really mean as they are not grammatically correct and it will make you ponder on what it is supposed to mean. Perhaps what it tries to say is what the eyes capture.

Despite of the mystery of the name, I think it deserves to be featured as Maverick Click of the Week, because it is probably the first photoblog from a journalist that I come across. It belongs to Wienda Parwitasari a photojournalist from Jurnal Nasional, a paper that has been winning a lot of awards at the AAS Awards.

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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.

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Click of The Week #33: Robert Adhi Kusumaputra

“I’m a journalist of Kompas Daily, Indonesia. This blog represents my views and opinions on urban problems, crime, lifestyle, technology, and daily life. Some of my articles even got published in Kompas Daily and Kompas Online, while the others were written specifically for this blog.”

 

 

 

His love affair with blogging started on 31 Dec 2006, when he launched his Blog Adhi Ksp. Before long, this blog became his playground where he can write about various topics that interest him. He shares a pragmatic view of our earthly problems relating to government policy, metropolitan issues, and public facility maintenance, to art, technology and lifestyle. What I like most about this blog is the way Adhi’s able to express his views with confidence, supported with good arguments.

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Click of The Week #32: Merry Magdalena

  Reading through Merry Magdalena’s blog, is like looking at the world through a new pair of eyes. With “Sexual revolution” written as heading on her blog page, it hit me that all Merry’s writings are calculated to send a strong message, especially to female readers. She is so heavily into gender issues that her blog serves as a wake up call for females to stop self pity about their looks but to maximize their potential instead.

“If you are a poor and ignorant female, then you are the most unfortunate human being in this world. Why? Because you become the most vulnerable prey for all the predators in this jungle of life !” Merry wrote in the posting “Females, Poverty and Ignorance”.

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Click of The Week #31: Kelik M. Nugroho

Lately I’ve realized that I cherish personal blogs.

Personal blogs tell stories about you, not as a professional, a journalist, an expert or an artist, but of yourself as an individual. An individual human being with hobbies, interests, sadness and anxieties of your own.

To me, personal blogs are far more fascinating than professional ones, because personal blogs enable you to see a person from a different perspective. And it also acts as a reminder that no matter what we do for a living, deep inside we’re all just ordinary people, trying to get by.

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Click of The Week #30: Jarar Siahaan

“My conscience kept breaking out when I wrote for the Paper. Too much lies and interests,” Jarar Siahaan said as he explained why he finally poured his thoughts in this blog instead.

He added that being a regular journalist should mean possessing an independent soul, not only from state pressure, but more importantly freedom from the interests that control the media, including businesses and politicians, whom for him do more harm and bury the truth.

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