A Spectacular Event in Batam City Square

It goes without saying that Batam Blogger Community has finished holding a batam blogger competition for this year. And the announcement the winners of the competition will be held on Saturday, June 13 2009. Many bloggers who take part of the competition are curious about the winners of the event. Some bloggers are very confident that they will win the competition, and some more, including me just feel so and so because we just don’t want to hope too much to win the competition as we realize that we only have simple blogs with very simple design inside the blogs. However, the committees of this event have announced to all contestants that they will have a special gift from them, that is a Free Speedy Modem and Internet Connection Installation at home.

Beside announcing the winners of the competition, Batam Blogger Community will also hold a talk show with very famous guest stars such as Mr. Ria Saptarika (The Vice Mayor of Batam City Government), 2. Mr. Antyo Rentjoko (The Founder of dagdigdug.com), 3. Mr. Enda Surya Nasution (The Father of Indonesian Bloggers), and 4. Mr. Hasan Aspahani (The Chief Redaction of Batam Pos Daily Newspaper). Almost all Batam Bloggers are waiting for this event, therefore I think there will be more than five hundreds batam bloggers will come to join this event. This is the best chance for Batam Bloggers to learn more from the guest stars about blogging world.

This event is not only aimed for Batam Bloggers, but for all Batam Citizens as well. So for you guys, don’t miss this event, Come and bring all your relatives to Batam City Square as many prizes are waiting for you in some quizzes held by the Committees of this event. Especially for Batam Bloggers, Make sure you will attend this gathering otherwise you will regret it for the whole of your life :P

Some Sources and the photo are taken from the official Site of Batam Blogger Community

Batam Blogger Community and the Competition

It goes without saying that Batam Blog Competition which has been held by the Batam Blogger Community is a proof to all people in Indonesia, especially for Batam citizens that Batam Blogger Community is still exists in Batam Island. Although this is the first competition in Batam, but it really works well. It can be shown by many bloggers in batam take parts of this competition, especially Students. This competition is devided into 2 categories. The first category is for Students (From Primary High School, Secondari High School and Senior High School), and the second category is for General and University Students. However, this competition is aimed for Batam Citizens only, or for those who stay in Batam island.

To succeed this competition, many things have been done by the Committees of this contest. Some of them are by doing some live programs in many radio station in Batam. They also published some announcement in many daily newspapers in Batam, such as Batam Pos and Tribun Batam. Some advertisements boards about this Competition are also made and placed in some main streets in Batam. All of these things are aimed so that all people in batam know and have a willing to join the competition. To make Batam Island becomes a digital island in Indonesia, many things have been done by the Batam City Government. One of them is by supporting this kind of event. There are many companies and cafes in Batam that support this event, they are : Pemko Batam, Indosat, Telkom, Batam Tv, Batam Pos, Pos Metro, Batam News, Flexi, Speedy, M Net, Cool Juz, Jablai Café, Sate Jumbo, Kedai Digital, Visi Design, Visit Batam 2010, Batam Digital Island, and of course Batam Blogger Community (BBC)

From what I have seen so far in this competition, Many new bloggers take part in this event, and some are from Batam Blogger Community including myself. As members of Batam Blogger Community (BBC) we have responsibilities to succeed this event by taking part in this event. For me, Winning this competition is not a main target in joining this competition. At least, as a member of BBC, I just want to succeed this competition by taking part of it. A competition can be said to be success when it has many contestants. And according to me, Batam Blogger Community (BBC) has been succeeded to hold this event because many contestants have taken part at this event, If I am not mistaken, more than three hundreds bloggers joint it.

Finally, Whoever the winners are, I hope this competition will be held every year. If it is possible it can be held once or twice in a year. I also would like to congratulate to all committees of this event and the winners. Especially for the winners, I am waiting for you to treat me to have lunch or dinner together hahaha

What is Alexa Rank?

Many bloggers including myself are curious about Alexa Rank. I often visit my friend’s blogs or webs, and I always find that they put alexa page rank in their websites or blogs. At first I have no idea about the importance of this Alexa Rank. After asking some questions to my friends, then I know a bit about it and start finding information from the king of searching, Mr. Google hahaha.

What is actually Alexa Rank?

To know more about the definition of Alexa Rank and how it works, I take some explanation directly from the official web of Alexa, and here it is :

"The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on a value derived from these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter".



So from the explanation above, we know how alexa works to page rank our Webs or blogs.

Obonk Steak, The Cheapest Steak & Ribs in Batam

Do you like eating steak and ribs? Are you looking for delicious and cheap steak and ribs in Batam? Don’t worry guys, I am going to let you know where you can buy and eat steak without spending a lot of money. If you stay in Batam Centre areas, you should have known Obonk Steak. This Café is located in Ruko Citra Batam, Green Land, just near by the housing of Center Point, Batam Center. This Café is very famous in Batam Center. There are many people from many types of ages come to this café to have kinds of steak. It is hard to find an empty table on Saturday and Sunday in Obonk Steak as many people come to this place to have the menu.

It is not only Steak you may find in this café, you also can enjoy many kinds of menus here. Some of the menus in Obonk Steak are: Beaf Crispy, Chicken Crispy, Double Beef Crispy, Double chicken crispy, mixed crispy, sirloin hot plate, tenderloin hot plate, black pepper hot plate, tenderloin pepper hot plate, sirloin mushroom, chicken hot plate, chicken mushroom, chicken cheese, chicken pepper hot plate, oxtongue and many more. You also may drink many kinds of juice in this café. Although there are some steak houses in batam, such as Steak House in Hotel Planet Holiday at the second floor, Teras Cafe in Penuin, just near Island Garden Hotel, City Cafe in Komplek Graha Rezeki, just beside Edukit Batam Center, and Steak House near McDonald Nagoya, but people prefer come to Obonk Steak because besides the taste of the steak is delicious, the price is also reasonable.

So, are you interested in trying the steak and the chicken in Obonk Steak? Come to this place, and prove it by yourself, I am sure once you try the menu, you will come back again to this place in the future. And if you want to come to this place on Saturday or Sunday, you should come early if not, you have to wait for few hours to have an empty table there.

Please Release Ms Prita Mulyasari from Jail

Have you already heard about the case of Ms Prita Mulyasari? Some of you probably have heard about it, but I am sure, there are some people still haven’t known about her case. Ms Prita Mulyasari is now being jailed because of writing and sending her own experiences when she was taken care in one of famous hospitals in Tangerang, Indonesia through email. The name of the hospital is Omni International Hospital Alam Sutera Tangerang. This is really unacceptable. Sharing experiences is a common thing and it always happens in our daily life. But nowadays, you have to be more careful. This case can be a lesson for us to be more careful in the future.

I still don’t understand why Ms Prita Mulyasari must be jailed while her case is still being proceeded. It shows us as if she is a dangerous criminal who had done a very bad thing in our country and plan to escape from this country. However, we really know that her case is not that serious. It is only about a complaint to one of famous hospitals in indonesia, and it is quite common I guess.

My wife had ever a bad experience in one of famous hospitals in Indonesia. I knew that she suffered a mistreatment from the doctors in the hospital. But I did not say anthying to four specialist doctors who took care of my wife at that time. I was afraid if I made noise, they would not take care of my wife seriously. Though I had to spend a lot of money at that time, I just did it and follow all the intrustions given by the doctors, and Praise God, my wife finally could be recuperated.

Through this article, I would like to invite you all readers, bloggers, or whoever you are to support Ms Prita Mulyasari, and insist the government especially Police Department who is handling this case to release Ms Prita Mulyasari from jail. If you are living in Tangerang, Please support her by attending her case against Omni International Hospital Alam Sutera Tangerang in the Public Court in Tangerang on June 4, 2009. She’s absolutely innocent. Once again, SHE IS ABSOLUTELY INNOCENT !!!


So, Just RELEASE Ms Prita Mulyasari FROM JAIL (Bebaskan Ibu Prita Mulyasari dari Penjara) , If you just let this case happen, i am afraid there will be many pritas stay in jail in this country in the future !!!!

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Spend Your Weekend time in Mirota Beach

Although batam is known as one of industrial cities in Indonesia, but this scorpion island also has so many beautiful beaches. Some famous beaches which are always visited by batam citizen or foreigners have been discussed at my previous articles, such as Melayu Beach , Sekilak Beach , and Turi Beach. There are still some beaches that I haven’t explained in my blog such as Marina Beach, Saranggon Beach, and Mirota Beach. And for this time I don’t want to discuss all of these beaches but only Mirota Beach (Pantai Mirota). One of new beautiful beach that we can find in Batam. I am not sure whether you have ever heard about this Mirota Beach. As Mirota Beach is still new to be opened for public, so in my opinion only few people know and ever visit this interesting beach. However, through this article I would like to give you some information about mirota beach. This information will be useful for you before you decide to go and stay in the villa around the beach.

Mirota Beach is located in Galang Island, exactly at Sijantung Village. It is just 200 meters from the fifth bridge of Barelang. So if you want to come to this beach, after passing the fifth bridge, around 200 meters from it at the right side of the street there is a small street towards Mirota Beach. It will take 3 minutes from the corner to reach the beach. To enter the beach, you have to pay some money in the entrance. A motor bike is charged for Rp. 5000, a car and minibus are charged for Rp. 10,000, and a big bus is charged for Rp. 30,000. Mirota beach has a white sand and the water is very clean. It is a good place to swim I think. There are also some inner tubes to be rented. So this inner tube is usually used by people when they swim in the beach. This inner tube is rented for Rp. 10,000. Beside the inner tube, there are also some kayak boats which are rented for Rp. 30,000. If you want to stay in the beach, there are three villas available there to be rented. The price of the villa is Rp. 300,000 per night. All villas have the same prices, though the size of the villas are different one to another.

It is necessary for me to inform you that if you come to this beach in groups and plan to stay in the villas, you have to book the villas at least 2 or 3 weeks before your coming and you need to give the down payment to the management of Mirota Beach. It is because there are only three villas available there, and many people are interested in renting them. So it is not easy to rent the villas. For your information, one villa is only allowed to be placed by 7 persons. But it still can be negotiated with the management if you want to add more than 7 persons inside the villa. The Check in Time in the villa is at 1Pm and the Check out Time is 1Pm. So if you check in the villa on Saturday at 1Pm, you have to check out the villa on the next day, Sunday at 1Pm.

When I came to mirota beach to book some villas for an event which will be held on July 2009. I saw that all the villas had been rented at that time. There were 3 families stayed in the villas. From the information that I got from the management, they had been stayed in the villas for 3 days. As I need to check all the rooms in the villas, The management and I finally asked for a permission to the them to check all the facilities inside the villas. There is one living room and two bed rooms in the villa. And the bed rooms are equipped by an air conditioner. There is also a small kitchen in the villa to be used for cooking. The position of the kitchen is at the first floor. However if you want to use the gas and the gas stove, you have to pay Rp. 100,000 per day.

In conclusion, although Mirota Beach is still new to be opened for public, but I think this beach has a good prospect in tourism field in Batam. The existence of the villas in the beach make the visitors are able to stay over night there. I am really curious about this beach and the villa, that is why my friends and I have decided to hold an event in Mirota beach on July 18, 2009 and plan to stay over night in the villas. How about you? Are you also curious about the beach and plan to stay in the villa? You may call Mr. Munir at 0813-722-86396 or 0813-7239-6598 for a reservation. Have a nice weekend there guys...