Jusuf Kalla by Yuniadhi Agung

A new activity for Jusuf Kalla, Indonesia’s Vice President enriches the blogging world in Indonesia. JK who is also a candidate  for Presidential election, starts to blog since the beginning of March this year. Between the three candidate teams, JK is the only one who uses blogging medium in this presidential election campaign.

Having his own blog in www.jusufkalla.kompasiana.com, JK shares about Indonesia’s social and economic situation and his ideas on how the problems could be solved in the future. He also post his reflections on both local and international current affairs.

This blog attracts many people. Some blogers post the news of ‘JK’s blog’ on their own blogs. Comments are also coming everytime JK post an article. Most of them are supportive comments, and even added with a prayer sentence that JK could win in the election.

JK welcomes the bloggers, on his first post,  explaining that as a leader, the blog is a very good opportunity to be closer with the citizens. “Through this medium, you (actually, JK address the bloggers with Indonesian terms of ‘brothers and sisters’, which is ‘saudara’) can have an interaction with me without getting through a complicated protocolers. Personally, I am sorry for that (the protocolers)”.

The frequency of his blog productivity remains stable, almost one posting each day, with the exception of beginning April-May period, which was the period of legislative election (9th April). On his first post in May, Vini Vidi Vici, he apologised for not updating his blog, “Lately I have been very busy because of many things that are very time consuming, from the country matters, party, and such. Thus I have to accelerate with those tiring activities”.

On a gathering with bloggers at a cafe in South Jakarta, JK shares about how inexperienced he was in blogging, for it was his first time, “My children taught me, in fact, my grandchild is smarter in blogging”, as VivaNews stated.

The 67 years old Vice President could post his entry very early in the morning, such as today,  Monday 15th June, his entry about Ahmadinejad (Belajar dari Ahmadinejad/Learning from Ahmadinejad) was posted before 00.30 AM. Several comments came immediately.

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