I watched MetroTV last nite, an english program tittled “International Perspective on Indonesia”, where two good native speakers were on, one is Chief of British Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia, John..something, the other is one of my most fave Malaysians, Karim Raslan. The dialog was hosted by one of Indonesia’s best journalist and reporters, Desi [...]

Not so many people know, that when Indonesia’s 1st president passed away on June 21st 1970, Pakistan officially and nationally announced that day was National Mourning Day, and Pakistan’s flag was raised half-mast. Many people called Soekarno as Putra Sang Fajar (The Son of The Dawn), when he led and unified Indonesia after hundreds of years [...]

A friend of mine, just came back from South Korea for her scientific research, told me something really heartwarming. She said that Indonesia’s image in South Korea rises significantly, especially after Indonesia’s membership in the G20. Cool! Do they know that Indonesia economy will overpass them in 2016? I hope they don’t. Well, in all fronts, [...]

Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, cannot be reached directly from any city in Indonesia. You have only 2 options: you go to Brisbane (Aussie) then Honiara, or you go to Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), then fly using Air Nugini. Most people in Honiara knows Indonesia, and they simple called it the… Australian [...]

It appears that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono understands what is the real crisis facing our planet. With the continuing popular obsession with global economic woes, most of the leaders attending last week’s G20 summit in Pittsburgh came prepared with more of the same, worn-out rhetoric about the need to fortify the world’s financial systems. Buoyed up [...]

Why we are where we are now? Malaysian and Indonesian history is so intertwined and our future is so closely linked that we are either hang together or hang separately. Weren’t we both part of the glorious kingdom of Sriwijaya in Sumatra and the Majapahit kingdom in Java? Wasn’t the founder of the Malacca Sultanate, Pramesyara, a [...]

India successfully launched its first spacecraft. Did they really need to? There was a Microfinance Summit in Bali last year, attended by many hi-rank people from 65 countries, including noble-prize winner Mohamed Yunus, and Indonesian President, and of course me, hehe… Well, I am not gonna talk about the summit though, I’d only like to emphasize [...]

Dominic Brain, a 12-year-old boy from Kuta in Badung district, has had his name entered into the Guinness Book of World Records after proving his ability to recollect a 76-digit figure in only 60 minutes. The son of Gidion Hindartho showed his extraordinary ability in a record-breaking test organized by Guinness World Records Asia at [...]

By Tom Colebath, Economics Editor, The Age Daily, Australia Our next door neighbour is booming politically and economically. THIS year, most of the world’s economic growth will take place in China. Much of the rest will be in India. But the third biggest source of global growth will be right next door: Indonesia. It has just held free [...]

By  RI_54 The Merah Putih team succeeded in presenting one gold medal in the 20th International Biology Olimpiad that took place in Tsubuka, Japan on July 12-19 2009. Apart from the gold medal, the team that had a membership of 4 Senior High School students also succeeded to bring one silver medal and one bronze medal. The [...]