Ji-Indonesia.com - Specialized directory pertaining to the Indonesian community
Title
.: The Jendela Indonesia :.
Description
The beauty of Indonesia and the intricacies of its politics have generated increasing interest in recent years. Unfortunately, first-hand information about Indonesia was scarce. We felt that there was a strong needs to provide this kind of information. Thus started the idea to develop a "window" to Indonesia. Jendela Indonesia - "a window to Indonesia" - was developed to provide a window for everybody to look at Indonesia, and for Indonesians to look at the world.
Jendela Indonesia was not built in a night; it has been developed incrementally as part of an ongoing project. Jendela Indonesia saw the light of the day in 1995. Syafedi Syafei
, a student at IIT, started to build Jendela Indonesia when he collected Bahasa Indonesia textual corpus from online newspaper and magazine articles for his research. Incidentally, he learned the art of HTML coding from the collected articles, which are formatted in HTML code. For the sake of convenience in accessing Indonesian newspapers and magazines, he collected links of all Indonesian newspapers and magazines available in WWW and, using his newly acquired knowledge of HTML, put them together in a Homepage called Jendela Indonesia (JI). This simple homepage was launched in October 5, 1995.
