Blogger Antyo Rentjoko received BOBs Award in 2010, the biggest international award to webloger, podcasts, and videobloger. Antyo received the award in the International Conference, Global Media Forum in Bonn organized by Deutsche Welle, one of Germany’s biggest television station. BOBs is a competition for the bloggers which have started since December 2009 until February 2010. The [...]
Democracy Video Challenge (DVC) is a short video competition to celebrate the world-class democracy, which is held by the U.S. State Department for the second time. More than 700 participants throughout the world sent their three-minutes video via YouTube, to complete the statement “Democracy is …” Adhyatmika’s video titled “Democracy Is Yet to Learn” has been [...]
The belief in the healing qualities of an ancient herbal medicine is as strong as ever in the Javan town of Yogyakarta By Sara Schonhardt 8 June, 2010 Jamu maker Ibu Siswu mixing together the bitter-tasting tonic called jamu in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Tucked deep in the heart of one of Indonesia’s Yogyakarta markets, Ibu Siswu sits surrounded by [...]
A group of Japanese tourists were gathering in front of a small hut in Yogyakarta. A group of Keroncong musicians played the legendary song “Bengawan Solo” or River of Solo. I was so impressed when some of them could sing along. I happened to know their tour guide, Mr Effendi, and he said that the [...]
