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Facebook: 35 million; average age, 23
The Guardian reported that the Facebook user base in Indonesia is the second largest in the world — only the U.S. has more. Considering what a giant time sink Facebook can be, I don’t know if that’s...
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Journalism education must play catch-up
Needs improvement: Journalism education in Indonesia. This need was acknowledged in October 2009 at a meeting organized by UNESCO Jakarta in partnership with the Indonesian Newspaper Publishers...
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Internet in Indonesia
I have just finished reading The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy, by David T. Hill and Krishna Sen. Having been published in 2005 (and therefore written in 2004), the book is not a reliable...
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Rosetta Stone Bahasa Indonesia
For more posts about learning Bahasa Indonesia, see all posts tagged “bahasa.” I lived in Malaysia for eight months and did not learn to speak Bahasa Malaysia. Malay — it is the root language of both...
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Journalism and democracy (and development)
The phrases “development journalism” and “Asian values” come up often when we study the practices and institutions of journalism in Southeast Asia. I found two chapters in the book Journalism and...
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Study in the U.S. for Indonesian students
This is a brain dump from our pre-departure orientation meeting in Washington last week. Study in the U.S.: When students or parents in Indonesia (or anywhere, really) want information about how to go...
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Bandung, Day 2
Here I am! This is what Bandung looks like (or one part of Bandung, anyway) from the eighth floor of my hotel. Below is another view from the same window. The hotel is excellent, and it looks like...
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How to study Bahasa Indonesia
I recently found this free site from the University of Hawaii at Manoa: Indonesian Online. All of the Lessons are listed on one page. You can sign up and pay to get real university credit for taking...
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Indonesian books translated into English and German
Indonesia is the guest of honor at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair, which takes place in October. This very interesting article (in English) talks about the culture of reading in Indonesia and why...
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