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Indonesia announces human bird flu death

An Indonesian boy has died from bird flu in the capital, bringing the country’s death toll from the virus to 88.
Since Indonesia has been sharply criticized for being slow to act in its fight to control bird flu, we hope the Government should take a serious effort on this matter.
Officials say the boy, who had […]

Indonesia joins MobileMonday

Indonesia is joining the global phenomenon of MobileMonday with establishment of MobileMonday Indonesia last month and its kick-off was marked in the Executive Brief Meeting in Jakarta, Monday.

Finally, full version of PayPal for Indonesia!

Yeah, it’s very good news. Now Indonesian are also able to receive money through PayPal!
Check-out my CNET Asia tech post on PayPal

Cisco Indonesia’s boss goes blogging

Cisco Indonesia Managing Director, Irfan Setiaputra, launched his personal blog recently. He decided to use his own name for the domain name, irfansetiaputra.com, instead of official cisco’s domain name.
This is the first official Indonesia’s global company CEO blog, and I hope other will follow Mr. Irfan’s footstep in Indonesia’s fast growing blogosphere.
On his five recent […]

Indonesia’s web 2.0 services

Indonesia has moves forward beyond blogosphere: the country already enters the new world, called web 2.0 services. Several user-generated content services already launched, and the country’s community responded to them enthusiastically.
Check-out my CNET Asia tech post on web 2.0

Indonesian gaming moves forward

Despite the fact that the online gaming market in Indonesia is definitely at its early stage, recent developments indicate that it has started to leave its shell as an emerging gaming market.
IDC’s latest study has identified the following trends present in the Indonesian online gaming industry, specifically in the areas of online games and service […]

Free Wi-Fi for Indonesia’s N-series users

Nokia Indonesia offers free Wi-Fi connection for N-series users by establishing a project called “1,000 Nokia NSeries WiFiZone”.
Nokia has teamed up with the three giant network and Internet providers, Telkom, IM2 and CBN. Nokia signed the joint agreement today with IM2 and CBN, after a similar agreement with Telkom two months ago.
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Bahasa Indonesia, one of the top languages in WordPress.com

Wow! According to WordPress.com’s statistics (June 2007), Indonesia is one of the top languages used by WordPress.com users.
Source: Thomas Arie’s posting