Good News From Indonesia

There’s one new website which struck and amazed me since first time : http://goodnewsfromindonesia.com. I know this website from one of the mailing list recently.


After a decade become a sickman of Asia,Indonesia has became underestimated and even insulted by other countries ( including the neighbor also ). The medias tend to report only the bad and negative things in Indonesia such as corruption,plane went down,demonstration,crime and etc. The overemphasize of media on this clearly creates perception gap in overseas as well. Many people become afraid ( too afraid I think ) to go to Indonesia. What I meant as perception gap here is there’s clearly a big gap between what people think and what really happen in Indonesia. People tend to forget simple statistics such as Indonesia has 240 million people,large area and developing democratic country itself. If we hear 10 car accidents in Indonesia each day,is it really that much ? By absolute number certainly higher than smaller countries such as Brunei or Singapore but percentagewise most probably almost the same or a bit higher. Other easy examples was plane accidents in Indonesia around 2 years ago. There were couple of plane accidents in a row which caused EU immediately banned Indonesian airlines from flying over their airspace. Is it that bad ? I can say it’s bad to have accident but you need to start counting number of flights performed in Indonesia daily. With so many cities and airlines serving the Indonesian airspace can be easily hundred,if not thousand of flight performed,do we hear accident every day or every week ?.


Now I’ll come back again on this website which should be my main writing focus now. This website has good graphical content and arrangement. I don’t know who’s the admin or owner of this website but they certainly have good idea and looks like it get updated quite quickly. From this website we can see that Indonesia is also good and has multiple achievements in sport,technology,economic even sexiest female politician. It even give you chance to share your own good news on Indonesia to other readers. So instead become mentally negative after reading the biased media all the time I would recommend reading this as well to have a balanced view. Happy reading !!