the official Indonesian tourism website = expensive
12.18.2007 by 
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Year 2008 as we know is a tourism year for Indonesia. As an Indonesian, I highly anticipate this event as it will be an important phase for Indonesia to revive the tourism. I hope also all the people in Indonesia will anticipate for this event and be a nice host for tourists. Don’t hesitate, go to your nearest travel agent and purchase a ticket to Indonesia, as your next holiday destination 
Anyway, talking about tourism, you should visit the official Indonesian tourism website. Here is the address. http://www.my-indonesia.info/. Here is the screenshot of it if your too lazy.
Okay, this website seems to be another regular website but recently this website has been discussed a lot by Indonesian bloggers. Why? because its the official Indonesian tourism website and the cost to make this website is very expensive! From the local news, it was said it cost about 1.8 million US$. Take a look again at the website. Do you think it looks like an expensive website?
A lot of people think this is a work of corruption because how could it be the website becomes so expensive while the quality is so poor (by looking at its design).
Andri Setiawan wrote in his blog (in Indonesian language) about the technical aspects of this website and comes to a conclusion that this website is far too expensive. Another thing is why did they choose such a poor name for the official website, also why did they choose .info domain?
Luckily, our country nowadays is more transparent, what I mean is, the people seems to have more freedom in saying what they should. Not like in the past where our government is repressive. Lucky too we have the young generation who are critical towards our governments behavior.
Well my friend, this is Indonesia, anyway - again, please don’t hesitate in visiting our country.
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I am Roffi Grandiosa, an Indonesian blogger living in Bandung, West Java. Currently working as a researcher and lecturer in the aquaculture field.I like to travel and also love sports. I also am a proud father of a 4 year old son and husband to a beautiful wife.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
tafi, katana defbudfar, itu website ndak segitu…
tafi ya..
namanya juga femerintah, susa buadh difercaya…..
*afatis sangadh*
Hoek Soegirang’s last blog post..Lha? Disclaimer afa?
December 19th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Wow!!! very expensive really.With cost like this, I think budget for make the website more effective if to use for saving our heritage (patent), like upacara adat,angklung, reog, etc.
indra kh’s last blog post..Martabak Unyil Durian Fatmawati
December 19th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
yang udah saya coba pentest, ada warning 3 mungkin bisa lebih, trus yg ngebuat(web developernya) aja blognya pake password default
tuk username :admin
passwd nya : cari sendiri yah
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December 20th, 2007 at 9:56 am
The site’s got nothing special. It’s way too expensive!
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December 20th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
bikin Kaleidoskop-Blog™ yuk… Liat contohnya di
http://alief.wordpress.com/
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December 21st, 2007 at 12:21 am
@ Hoek - katanya sih buat biaya promosi segala
@ Indra - they should be more transparent
@ Arham - hello, thx for the comment, i don’t know why they made a blog subdomain.. funny really
@ Haris - hello haris, welcome to my blog, they said they used most of the funds for promotion, but they are not transparent.. again thx for coming