Archive for November, 2006
One of the great things in Indonesia is the freedom with which they are able to talk about religion without other Indonesians getting their panties in a twist. Hera Diani’s “Yap yap yap yap yap…” , which was featured in the Maverick blog this week, is one such example. Hera is a journalist with The [...]
What’s fascinating about the articles Michael Backman, the columnist for the Australian Newspaper The Age, writes about Malaysia is not so much the content, but the reaction of Malaysians to them.
About two weeks ago he wrote a piece critical about Malaysia. see There was really nothing very new about it. Most of the information in [...]
It is a bit rich for Bandung parents to blame Lativi for the violent tendencies of their children, supposedly acquired after watching the channel’s airing of its World Wrestling Entertainment show. The children were apparently trying to smack down each other, resulting in some injuries.
The people that should rightfully be chastised, surely, must be the [...]
Unspun, ever discreet, hinted back on October 12 (see Mining for Trouble) that a certain international mining company was losing its president director and that this loss would spell more trouble for the embattled company.
Today, the Jakarta Post confirmed in a story (see here) that Noke Kiroyan will be resigning as president director of PT [...]
The Lapindo mudflow fracas takes center stage again with a gas pipeline explosion last night that killed at least seven and injured at least 12 people. Reuters has the report and photos here.
In the meantime there is some suggestion of accountability sleight of hand on the ownership of Lapindo Brantas, the Bakrie company responsible [...]
The Tun should take comfort that someone out there misses him. Blueheeler tells why he misses the feisty old man:
An article in an Australian newspaper The Age ridiculing Malaysia and calling Malaysia “bodoh” (stupid) has left International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz unperturbed. “What do we care? Obviously, this person doesn’t know [...]
This is the question posed by Iwan in Pernak-Pernik Jakarta and goes on to speculate a number of reasons why this, apparently an Indonesian phenomenon, is so.
A former Metro TV insider, however, has a rather down-to-earth explanation for it: “The journalists usually dress slovenly if left to their own, so a uniform is one way [...]
A Jakarta Post article today threatens to make Unspun optimistic because it proclaims, in bad metaphor, in its headline that “Sutiyoso riding the brakes on three-in-one.” Unspun, who, like the thousands of Jakarta motorists has had to fume in worsening traffic jams in the city was elated with this news.
The first paragraph of the story [...]
World’s largest independent PR firm Edelman has been, like any grubby worldwide PR firm, championing bloghing as the Next New (billable) Thing in communications. It’s even coined a catchy phrase so it can market this service to clients: Me2Revolution.
Edelman, to convince would be clients have had its senior staff blogging for the past few years. [...]
The Jakarta Post today carried an Oped article I wrote about Eric Ness, who blogs about his father. They wanted an opinion piece so it was not possible to quote Eric’s answers to a list of questions I sent him.
For those who are interested in knowing more, I’m posting all his answers below. Some of [...]
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