Indonesian Bloggers are having the 2nd national gathering next month on the November 22nd, last year we managed to get 500 bloggers from all over Indonesia to come.

This year hopefully we can get up to 1000 bloggers to attend the whole day event. The theme for this year is blogging for society.

Leading to that, as a part of the program to promote Indonesia tourism, supported by Indonesian Ministry of Cultural and Tourism, we would like to invite several international bloggers from any country to come and have a trip to three cities (Bali, Jogjakarta, Jakarta) in Indonesia leading to the event.

We are looking for bloggers (travel bloggers) that can post their experience, photos, people they meet, basically blogging about Indonesia and Indonesian people, and join the event.

The period for this trip is between Nov 17 – Nov 22 2009 and this is the itinerary:

1. Denpasar, Bali (Mon, Nov 17 – Tue, Nov 18)
2. Jogjakarta (Wed, Nov 19 – Thu, Nov 20)
3. Jakarta (Fri, Nov 21 – Sat, Nov 22)

All expense will be covered, including flight ticket from your country to Indonesia and back.

And read more about the event in detail below. Their site is fully in Indonesian language but this is from email attachment and it’s in English, so dumping it directly here.

Pesta Blogger 2008: The blogging trip

We’re looking for travel bloggers to come to Indonesia!

ABOUT PESTA BLOGGER
On October 27th, 2007, history was created when Indonesia had its first national bloggers gathering. PESTA BLOGGER 2007 attracted the participation of more than 500 prominent bloggers and blogger’s communities from throughout Indonesia. It also received the full backing of the Minister of Communications and Informatics, Muhammad Nuh, as well as securing reams of coverage in the traditional media.

The gathering, with a theme of ‘Suara Baru Indonesia’ and held at Blitz Megaplex, Grand Indonesia, served as a social get-together for bloggers to meet each other face-to-face and to share common interests. In his opening speech, Indonesian Minister of Communications declared October 27th as National Bloggers Day–to commemorate the 1st national scale bloggers’ gathering in Indonesia.

We have received very positive remarks and feedback of the event; that not only Pesta Blogger 2007 became the 1st get-together for bloggers nationally, but the event also had successfully helped many of Indonesia’s prominent bloggers to share their views and discuss how they can do something positive for the society.

In May, we posted an announcement in our official blog (pestablogger.com) that this year’s Pesta Blogger will be on this November 22, and have received hundreds of enthusiastic comments from bloggers across Indonesia, indicating that this event has become an annual celebration they’ve been waiting for. In 2008, Pesta Blogger will carry the theme “Blogging for Society”, whereby bloggers will demonstrate what positive contributions the blogosphere can make toward society and the nation in general.

THE BLOGGING TRIP: Are you a travel blogger?
Pesta Blogger 2008 will begin with a “Road to Pesta Blogger 2008” event on Nov 17, leading up to Nov 22, 2008. During this event, with the full support of Indonesia’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and in accordance with the program Visit Indonesia Year 2008, we’re planning to invite foreign travel bloggers (or other bloggers who habitually write about travel/tourism) from 5 countries to join a blogging trip— whereby these foreign bloggers will be exposed to Indonesian tourism potential, hosted by local bloggers’ community.

The blogging trip schedule is as follows:
1.Denpasar, Bali (Mon, Nov 17 – Tue, Nov 18)
2.Jogjakarta (Wed, Nov 19 – Thu, Nov 20)
3.Jakarta (Fri, Nov 21 – Sat, Nov 22)

All expenses for this trip (transportation, accomodation, F&B, etc.) will be covered by Pesta Blogger 2008 and The Ministry of Culture and Tourism. If you are a travel blogger (or a blogger who habitually writes about travel/tourism) from Singapore, Malaysia, China/HongKong, Australia, and USA and is interested to participate in this program, all you need to do is to send us an email containing your:

• full name (as written on your passport),
• country of origin,
• gender,
• age,
• phone number,
• email address,
• blog URL, and
• a short paragraph on why you’d like to participate in this blogging trip.

Don’t forget to put PB08-BLOGGING TRIP as the subject of your email.

We will wait for your email until October 22, 2008, and we’ll announce the 5 selected participants on October 24, 2008 through pestablogger.com. Throughout the trip, you’ll be expected to blog about Indonesia as a travel destination and the cultural heritage of the country as well as the interaction you’ll be having with local bloggers’ communities in Denpasar, Jogjakarta, and Jakarta. The trip will end up with the Pesta Blogger event in Jakarta, on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008.

For further information please contact:
Enda Nasution. | Email: enda.nst@gmail.com | YM: enda_001 | +62 813 9487 1625

Well, great news isn’t it? Indonesia is a great country with excellent hospitality, I’m sure you’ll make the best of this event and enjoy the stay.

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Quite a diversity in GV don’t you think? Anyways, after that much of replies have been posted from various authors, I realized that I haven’t replied in Burmese yet. So I quickly flick through my brain and found out that I forgot (seriously!) how to say “Freedom” in Burmese. Embarrassing! I asked my brother and he asked me back, “What freedom?, What are you talking about?”. May be he also forgot the word or don’t understand what I’m asking, he just brushed me off like that. So I asked some random Burmese onliners on my gtalk. I simply asked “How do you say freedom in Burmese?” What’s the Burmese word for Freedom?”

Me: how to say Freedom in burmese? is that loot lat yay? loot lat yay is independence right. what’s the burmese word for freedom?
X: may be ” it can do as you like in leagally & it can get all equally chances” I think friend..
Me: no, i dont want english meaning. I want Burmese word
X: so what? okok
Me: i forgot the word
X: it may “lute lat mhu” pot bya
Me: loot lut mhu or yay? lute lat mhu….ic ok thx
X: but in legally nor you must careful in that.
Me: i dont know those, i just forgot the burmese word so asking anyways. that’s all

I don’t know what/how he understand my simple question but he started talking about legality and illegality issues and showing the sign of warning in his words. I was a little annoyed about the sensitivity of the word “Freedom” and how Burmese people take extra care to speak of it; I just don’t want to listen to him anymore so quickly say thanks and left him. But I still wasn’t convinced with the word he mentioned so I asked another friend. Here is what he said:

May: bro, sorry to bother u
Y: hi, nope
Me: i forgot burmese word, how do u say Freedom in Burmese?
Y: long tim no see လြတ္လပ္ေရး?
Me: loot lat yay or loot lat mhu? yay? mhu? confused
Y: its depends, both are noun
Me: true, ok thanks bro
Y: sometime its even say လြတ္ေျမာက္ျခင္း
Me: ok cool, i’ll note that as well
Y: you can write မႈ or ျခင္း or ေရး , its depend on that sentence
Me: yep
Y: writing some articles?
Me: ah…a friend asked how it called n I forgot the word
Y: ah, i see

So…..the word “Freedom” in Burmese is လြတ္ေျမာက္ျခင္း (Loot Myout Chin) or လြတ္လပ္ေရး (Loot Lat yay) or လြတ္လပ္မွဳ (Loot Lat Mhu) depending on the sentence.

If you ask – What’s my point here? No point! I was asked to think about the word, I thought about it, turned out that I forgot the word, I asked around and now I got it. I’m a bit ashamed of myself for forgetting so I’m not posting it on the list but noting it down along with the word in other languages.
THE END.

P.S: I gotta ask how does it call in Fijian.

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