Indonesia’s National Bloggers Day
Pesta Blogger Kuala Lumpur 2007…. Can you envisage such an event takes place in Malaysia? And can you imagine the photo above where Pak Lah and Zam sit together with orgainizing committee members such as Rocky, Jeff Ooi, Nat Tan and so on?
No you can’t? Well you are not alone and I don’t blame all of you because it is unlikely to happen here in Malaysia. Not after two Malaysian bloggers were sued for defamation, minister calling bloggers liars, son-in-law calling Malaysian bloggers monkeys, blogger arrested for no apparent reason, strange police report against a prominent blogger and other blogophobia by the Malaysian authority.
And I don’t think they will change their mind either to provide supports to Malaysian bloggers as such act will be deemed as admitting defeat on the Government behalf. But I don’t mind if I can be proven wrong in my hypothesis here.
What you saw above is the overwhelming attendance and supports at the Indonesia’s Pesta Blogger 2007… both from the bloggers themselves as well as the Indonesian Government officials. So open the Indonesian government to this new media and blogging phenomina in Indonesia, the date 27th October was instantly declared a National Bloggers Day for the country. Bravo to the Indonesian Government and congratulation to Indonesian bloggers.
Read more about Pesta Blogger 2007 at Unspun and see the photos of the proceeding here.
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Arham
Oct 29, 2007 at 12:16 am
Thanks a lot so so much..
If I could , and if Malaysia would have a voting system to make National Bloggers Day for Malaysian Blogger, I’ll vote for supports to Malaysian bloggers…just encourage, believed next time your Bloggers Day would be come true…
Arham
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vavai
Oct 29, 2007 at 11:10 am
Thanks for your “spread the world” news.
The PestaBlogger story has been realized because we make it happen! We encourage the government, make and provide much advantage to the government to develop blogger community.
Maybe this is a lucky day for Indonesian bloggers but we will not make it happen without the effort from Indonesian celebrity blogger (mentioned to PestaBlogger Steering Committee) and supported by blogger around of Indonesia.
I hope I can attended the “Malaysian PestaBlogger 2008″ as an observer ;-).
http://www.vavai.net
Harri
Oct 29, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hopefully in other time your government can support malay blooger activities like what we’ve done
basibanget
Oct 29, 2007 at 3:29 pm
more pictures here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pb2007/
leo
Oct 29, 2007 at 7:13 pm
vavai and harri, you guys are just kidding right? ;) dont waste your time waiting for something impossible.
caiyoo malaysian blogger :D
Nugroho Latifolia
Nov 18, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I dont know what happened to Malaysia, blocking bloggers to spread information for the sake of “so-called” democracy.
In Indonesia, we even have our Defense Minister managing his own blog (personal blog), see at http://www.juwonosudarsono.com/
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