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Mythological Deities in Indonesian WordsAs mythology enthusiast, I came to realize that many words from various languages survived into modern area, have their root from mythology deities. Greek and Latin is probably the best example, there are many modern words from Greek and Latin that was originally name of their gods, take for instance: Sophia (Wisdom) = Usually considered as female aspect of God, associated with Holy Spirit and consort of Christ. Luna (Moon) = Often considered as moon goddess in Roman cult Sol (Sun) = Worshipped as sun god in Roman cult, counterpart of Greek's Helios. His day was celebrated in 25th December, later on Jesus ...
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Economical Value of Indonesian LanguageIndonesia Language also known as (Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa, or Indonesian), de facto language of Republic of Indonesia, spoken by approximately 250 million speakers or more in this world, centralized in Indonesia, uniquely spoken as second language by majority of most Indonesians who probably speak regional language as their mother language. Indonesian language is originally Malay language, spoken as lingua franca of nusantara during Netherland’s colonialization, uniting the vast country that comprises of hundred different language. Due to different influence from colonial masters, Indonesia and Malay language evolved differently and now considered separate entities. Indonesian language is probably the most important identity of ...
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Selamat Ulang Tahun Ke-63, IndonesiaSelamat ulang tahun yang ke-63 Indonesia tercinta! Seperti yang saya tulis di postingan sebelumnya, ini kesempatan baik untuk mengposting sesuatu yang berbau nasionalisme karena ini hari kemerdekaan kita. Di usia yang ke-63 ini Indonesia jauh dari kata sejahtera. Kebangaan sebagai penduduk negara ini merosot, dan yang aneh, orang-orang malu karena imej "negara terkorup di dunia padahal penduduknya muslim terbesar dan salah satu negara yang paling religius". Keberadaan departmen agama yang mengontrol keberadaan agama di Indonesia juga menambah ironi ini karena mereka juga adalah salah satu departmen terkorup di Indonesia (apa mereka berdoa dulu sebelum korupsi?). Nah mari kita taruh sejenak hal-hal jelek ...
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Apakah Orang Indonesia Anti-Semitik?Kebudayaan Yahudi adalah salah satu kebudayaan yang saya pelajari di waktu luang selain hobi saya untuk menekuni kebudayaan lain seperti budaya Asia (Jepang), Eropa (Yunani), dan Timur Tengah (Jewish, Mesopotamia, Persia, dll). Minat saya pada paleografi membuat saya tertarik mempelajari kebudayaan Jewish.Kata "Yahudi" sendiri sebenarnya agak susah merepresentasikan kata "Jewish", karena dari berbagai info yang saya baca di internet, kita mengenal adanya "Jewish" dan "Penganut Judaisme". Makna kata Jewish bisa berarti penganut Judaisme atau orang Jewish (etnis). Karena secara historis Indonesia tidak mengadakan kontak sejarah dengan Israel secara langsung, maka kedua kata tersebut tidak diserap dalam bahasa Indonesia. Saya cukup ...
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Should We Forgive Soeharto?The atmosphere of Indonesia could be best described as mixture of uncertainty and curiosity, this is especially true considering the critical ondition of ex-President Suharto. The bastard ex-dictator's health condition has become spotlight of headlines among media since last week. It noticeably also has been source of discussion among Indonesian Bloggers. (this post was marked as latest top post in my wordpress dashboard). People who took benefit of Suharto's long reign would probably feel sorry or sympathize his critical, near-vegetative condition. I won't give preach about the corruption he has done during his one-third reign in here, public knows better. I won't ...
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Bilingual Blog?This question has haunted me for several days, I primarily made this blog so that I could express my opinion and reaching Indonesian audience. As far as I concern, international relations-related blog is something scarce and not a common subject in indonesian blogosphere. But I also wondering if my persistence to blog in Indonesia language will eventually contain me up, I really would like to have my writings, my opinion read by larger number of reader. Here is example of good bilingual indonesian-english blog. Hard to believe the blogger is an australian, she writes with native-like influency. Hmm, is our language ...
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RUU Kebahasaan dan XenofobiaPasal 17 dari RUU Kebahasaan mengatur kewajiban penggunaan bahasa Indonesia untuk media cetak dan elektronik. Media harus mendapat ijin dari mentri untuk penggunaan bahasa Inggris. Di tengah gencarnya arus globalisasi dan peningkatan penggunaan bahasa asing di Indonesia, Pusat Bahasa Departemen Pendidikan Nasional mengusulkan suatu rancangan yang berpotensi mengekang kebebasan berbahasa asing yang dimiliki bangsa. Ketimbang menghapuskan kebijakan Ujian Akhir Nasional yang menjadi momok menakutkan bagi seluruh siswa SMU negeri ini, depdiknas sekali lagi, membuat suatu kebijakan yang perlu dipertanyakan keefektifannya. Bahasa memang merupakan corak dan identitas suatu bangsa. Bangsa Indonesia harus berbangga hati memiliki suatu bahasa persatuan yang menyatukan 300 suku berbeda, ...
