Friday, August 28, 2009

Slank | Indonesian Musicians Made Hits Album in America

Several years ago an Indonesian singer made a skyrocketed album in international musics. Anggun Cipta Sasmi. "Anggun", her nick name, made history for being the one of Indonesian singer to break into the international musics scene by releasing her first international album, "Snow on the Sahara" in Europe, Asia, and America.

Now, the other Indonesian musicians made hits album in America. "Slank", a famous band group from Indonesia made the English version album "Anthem for the Brokenhearted". It has been prepared since 2008 ago. They started the process of recording from July to August last year in Los Angeles, United States. Anthem For The Brokenhearted has released in America first before in Indonesia.

The popular hits song is "Too Sweet to Forget". "I have heard the song already played on 500 radio stations in America. The song is often played in Los Angeles, even in Las Vegas. In casino-casino and the mall was played", said Bimbim (one of Slank personnel). This is another remarkable achievement by the Indonesian musicians.

TOO SWEET TO FORGET Lyric:

I took my guitar, and I begin to play

Those olds familiar songs, from our yesterday
But only half way trough, the things I should have said
Those old memories came, through in to my head

Oh you're so sweet, too sweet to forget
Memories of being along with you, it's all in my dream
You just so sweet, too sweet to forget
You don't love me the same as I love you
It's not to be, I regret

Days are passing by
The wind begins to blow
Seasons changes now, the leaves begin to grow
But the words inside my heart
Will forever stay tune
Wherever I may go, whatever I may do

Oh you so sweet, too sweet to forget
Memories of being along with you, it's all in my dream
You just so sweet, too sweet to forget
You don't love me the same as I love you
It's not to be, I regret

Any ***** cold dark, lonely night
Memories of two of us, begin to take fly

You just so sweet, too sweet to forget
But you don't love me like I love you
It's not to be, I regret

Saturday, August 22, 2009

A Good News or Bad News to Adsense Newbie?

A few days ago we found a news from Google that next week they would implemented a new policy. Is it a good news or a bad news to publishers especially like our blog site as a newbie who were an account not approved yet?


Below, the cited complete news:

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Inside the science of contextual matching

As an AdSense Product Manager for ads quality, I'm part of a group that works to make the ads on your site relevant for users. One of the ways we do this is through contextual targeting, which matches ads to the content of your webpages. With contextual targeting, our system parses and analyzes the content of your page, conducts an auction among the relevant ads, then serves the winning ads -- all in the blink of an eye! Pretty simple, right?

Actually, matching relevant ads to the content of your pages is quite a scientific challenge involving semantic analysis and machine learning. It's a challenge that keeps me and my team busy. Our machines are very good at the matching process, but there are still a few cases where their definition of relevance differs from our human definition of relevance. In these few cases, the system might end up serving ads that don't seem immediately relevant to users. We understand that increased ad relevance contributes to a positive experience for users, publishers, and advertisers, so we're continuously working on ways to improve the relevance and quality of ads that appear on your sites.

I'm excited to let you know that this week, we'll be rolling out a series of enhancements to AdSense's contextual targeting capabilities, which will more accurately match relevant ads to webpages. You won't need to update your AdSense account or ad code, as these changes will be applied automatically. In many ways these types of improvements are par for the course at Google - but I wanted to let you know about the kinds of improvements we've been focusing on. Please keep in mind that these changes won't affect how other types of ads are matched to your sites; for instance, you'll continue to see placement-targeted ads when advertisers bid to appear specifically on your pages.

This is by no means the end of our efforts to perfect the system, but we believe that with these changes users will start to see even more relevant ads, advertisers will generate more attractive returns by finding the right users, and publishers should make more money over time.
As always, we're interested in your feedback on these improvements!

Posted by Woojin Kim - AdSense Product Manager
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 2:18:00 PM
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http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/08/inside-science-of-contextual-matching.html

Friday, August 21, 2009

Ramadan Will Begin on Saturday

Republic of Indonesia government represented by Minister Maftuh Basyuni decided that Ramadan will begin on Saturday August 22, 2009. This decision was taken in itsbat meeting last night.

According to rukyatul hilal (watching moon) method, from the Indonesian government officers and watchers were arrayed at nine points across the Indonesian archipelago: the Boscha Observatory near Bandung (West Java Province), Merauke (East Papua Province), Makassar (South Sulawesi Province), Kupang (East Nusa Tenggara Province), Pelabuhan Ratu (West Java Province), Gresik and Tanjung Kodok-Lamongan (both in East Java Province), Ternate (North Maluku) and Semarang (Central Java Province) last night reported that no one watcher and officer watched the moon in each point last night. It was an itsbat meeting decision.

Source :
http://ramadan.detik.com/read/2009/08/20/172810/1186611/631/gelar-sidang-itsbat-depag-pantau-hilal-di-8-titik
http://ramadan.detik.com/read/2009/08/20/193406/1186729/631/awal-ramadan-22-agustus-2009

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Indonesian History on August 20, 2003

The beginning construction of The Suramadu Bridge (Jembatan Surabaya-Madura) located in Province of East Java was opened by (the former) Presiden Megawati Soekarnoputri on August 20, 2003. The bridge with three cable-stayed sections constructed between Surabaya on the island of Java and the town of Bangkalan on the island of Madura in Indonesia.

The lenght of this bridge is 5.438 metres (17,841 ft) and the longest bridge in Indonesia untill now.

The development this bridge is intended to speed up the economics and infrastructure developments in East Java especially around Madura islands.

The bridge was built by a consortium of Indonesian companies PT Adhi Karya and PT Waskita Karya working with China Road and Bridge Corp. and China Harbor Engineering Co. Ltd. The total cost of the project, including connecting roads, has been estimated at 4.5 trillion rupiah (US$445 million).

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Indonesian History on August 18, 1945

After declaration of Indonesian Independence on August 17th 1945, Preparatory Committee of Indonesian Independence (Panitia Persiapan Kemerdekaan Indonesia = PPKI) held a grand meeting on August 18, 1945 and taken a decision that Undang Undang Dasar 1945 (UUD 1945) as the first Indonesian constitution.

History be continued.. DPR and MPR declared that the day on August 18, 2008 as a Constitution Day.

Today, the first ceremony August 18th as a Constitution Day held in Nusantara IV Building, Senayan Jakarta and presented by President Susilo Bambang Sudoyono and Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla.

Indonesian History on August 17, 1945

Independence of Indonesia was declared on Friday, 17 August 1945 or 17 August 2605 according to the Japanese calendar or 17 Ramadhan 1365 Hijriah read by Ir. Soekarno was accompanied by Drs. Mohammad Hatta in Pegangsaan East Road number 56, Central
Jakarta.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Indonesian History on August 16, 1945

Remind us on ..

Rengasdengklok Moment is starting from the "kidnapping" made by a number of youth (Adam Malik and Chaerul Saleh from Menteng 31) to Soekarno and Hatta. This occurred on 16 August 1945 at 04.30. WIB (abbreviated from Waktu Indonesia Barat = Indonesia West Time), Soekarno and Hatta have brought to Rengasdengklok, Karawang, West Java Province and then urged to speed up the proclamation of independence of the Republic of Indonesia, until the occurrence of the agreement between the old generation represented by Soekarno and Hatta with young generation represented by Mister Achmad Subardjo about when the proclamation will be implemented.

For more detail information in Bahasa Indonesia, please find on Wikipedia.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Live in the Land Named Indonesia

As human beings, we all need a place to live. What place suitable for us? Its not watering area or nor in the open air. We need a land to live. Human needs a good land to farming or if the land not fertile, we can do another way to explore the land. In different case, a land maybe have a rich mineral materials like coals, irons, gas or fossil fuels from deep of the earth.

The history shows us that many good places in the world or major cities located near a big river or seaside. This place good for fisheries and do international trade activities by water transportation. Some places not in the vast or wide land like America, Australia or Africa continent.

As we know, Indonesia is an archipelago country, Indonesia has so much islands. We can imagine, more over 17.000 islands. This chain of islands stretches around 3,500 miles, about the distance from New York to San Francisco. Indonesia is well-known as a largest archipelago country in the world.

Some Indonesian islands are among the largest on earth. The island of Papua (former Irian Jaya), part of which belongs to the nation of Indonesia, is the second largest island on earth. Another island that belongs partly to Indonesia, Kalimantan (former Borneo), is the third largest island on earth. The Indonesian island of Sumatera is the sixth largest on earth, Sulawesi (former Celebes) is the 11th largest, and Java is the 13th largest!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Can I rent an island in Indonesia?

There are more 17.000 islands in Indonesia, from the big islands like Sumatera, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi or Papua to the little one like in Kepulauan Seribu in the north of Jakarta. Sometimes, you will found an advertising like this: "FOR RENT Siloinak island!" or "Macan island for rent only US$700 per weeek". If you have some money, you can do that. You can rent an island that you want in Indonesia. Is it a simple thing?

An island like as a property. The owner can use, build or rent it pursuant to Indonesian law or government regulations. For Indonesian citizen it is not a problem. But, if you are a foreigner you must consult with the lawyers or legal consultants. Rent for one day, one week or one month, it is no problem for both local citizen or a foreigner.

An exclusive resort built in an island usually. As the other country, local citizen or a foreigner can rent and enjoy whole island for yourself and your guests like a British super soccer player, David Beckam and his wife Victoria celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary a few week ago in Necker island, British Virgin Island (Carrebean).

Indonesia Archipelago

So many information we can find about Indonesia Archipelago from the internet. Sometimes like this : "Indonesia is often referred to as the world's largest archipelago, a name which aptly represents its 17,000 or so islands which span more than 5000 km (around 3,200 miles) eastward from Sabang in northern Sumatra to Merauke in Irian Jaya. If you superimpose a map of Indonesia over one of Europe, you will find that it stretches from Ireland to Iran; compared to the United States, it covers the area from California to Bermuda... " For more complete sentences you can find at http://www.indo.com/indonesia/archipelago.html.

Wikipedia noted that Indonesia has 18.000 islands or more (around 6.000 islands not populated). It can be debatable about how many islands in Indonesia. The exactly data is = X islands minus Sipadan and Ligitan (Now, Sipadan and Ligitan islands to be Malaysia's teritory).
The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the seventh century, when the Srivijaya Kingdom traded with China and India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia).

These are another sites about Indonesia:
The Indonesia official website is http://www.indonesia.go.id/en/ (English) or http://www.indonesia.go.id (Bahasa ). The famous tilerature about Indonesia is Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia (English version) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Indonesia (English) http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Indonesia (in Bahasa) or http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia (Bahasa)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Good Morning Indonesia

Good morning Indonesia.

Whatever Indonesia is a new blog site (under blogspot.com) who want to share anything all about Indonesia, including but not limited on archipelago, arts, bahasa, bali, batik, books, borobudur, business, city, citizen, culture, democracy, economics, election, energy, environment, ethnic, fauna, films, flora, food, foreign, geography, government, history, holiday, ideology, Indonesia today, industry, investment, islands, jakarta, kingdoms, language, law, media, military, musics, news, people, politics, president, provinces, resources, science, social, songs, sport, technology, telecommunication, tourism, trade, transportation, woman (Indonesian woman), whatever, what ever Indonesia, and so on...