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An eruption in 2006 has buried 12 villages, claimed 13 lives and displaced more than 42,000 residents in Sidoarjo district, East Java. But the post-disaster problems haven’t been settled properly yet, so far. A scientist studying Indonesia’s infamous Lusi “mud volcano” reveals: Indonesia’s devastating ‘mud volcano’ could keep spewing for the next 30 years, filling the equivalent [...]

Here is the Jakarta Globe’s piece on why some Indonesian bloggers preferred blogging in English. I was also got mentioned on that piece [Thanks, Michelle!]. The article also listed Three Popular Blogs Written by Expats Living in Indonesia and Ten Blogs by Indonesians Who Are Writing in English as tracked by Web site Indonesia Matters. To these [...]

The story about Prita Mulyasari, a housewife who has been detained for defamation allegations after complaining over the Internet about a hospital treatment, has created a buzz through blogs and social networking sites. The nursing mother of a newborn baby and 3-years old son has spent three weeks at Tangerang Women Penintentiary. More than 24,000 people [...]

I was just interviewed by Adrian Simpson, a host of Round. The world. Connected., this afternoon at Wetiga cafe, Radio Dalam area, South Jakarta. He asked me about how does Jakarta become one of Asia’s blogging hubs as well as my activity as a full-time blogger. Who is he? His blog tells us: A seasoned traveler with [...]

Scientists just announced top 10 new species, including a tiny seahorse found in waters off Indonesia. They were selected from thousands of nature’s newcomers by the International Institute for Species Exploration at the Arizona State University (ASU) and an international committee of taxonomists. Slightly larger and more consumer-friendly is the tiny seahorse (Hippocampus satomiae) found near [...]

The Government of Indonesia launched digital TV system recently, marking a new phase of the country’s broadcasting system development. All broadcasters expected to migrate their programs to the digital system by 2018. More than 200 million people, who view about 40 million TV sets in Indonesia, can still enjoy the free analog system until 2014. Afterward [...]

Curatorial Board of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has now completed the selection process for the invited Indonesian writers, according to a newsletter I received this morning. The Board, comprising noted writers Melani Budianta (Jakarta), Azhari (Aceh), Mashuri (East Java), Lily Yulianti Farid (South Sulawesi) and Tan Lioe Ie (Bali), have selected 15 young [...]

Hell yeah! Dr Onno Purbo, Indonesia’s most prominent information technology advocate, just proposed another “crazy” idea: do it yourself GSM base-station! By using an open source technology, he explains, we could create our own GSM base-station and provide free telephone call for the people. Withdrawn from the Indonesian civil service and retired as a lecturer seven [...]

Finally. I just launched my video blogging site.  Called i-teve, it means “Indonesia-TV”,  “Internet-TV” or even “my TV”. All videos presented in Bahasa Indonesia, that’s why we use “Indonesia’s Online TV” as our tag-line. Yeah, it’s really an online TV — instead of video service/platform provider like YouTube. We just focus on content / video production. [...]

Okay, so I am now preparing a video blogging site. What kind of video blogging? Is it a service like YouTube, MetaCafe or BlipTV? No. I’m just focusing on content or video production. Just like I maintain my blog as usual - writing posts, using a certain blog service like WordPress, instead of creating my [...]