Jef Ooi, noted Malaysian blogger who visited Indonesia with for Pesta Blogger ‘08 somehow managed to score himself a copy of The Jakarta Globe, (something that apparently even Globe staff has failed to do outside their offices despite having claimed a 50-60 thousand print run) and published this review of the new daily.
Some have criticized the newspaper’s asking price of Rp. 8500 when long-term incumbent English daily The Jakarta Post charges much lower, but they forget that the Globe at 48 pages and three sections delivers more news in more variety and in full color as opposed to The Post’s black and white 28 pages.
None of the above sentence applies to me though as I don’t read print publications especially when the news that matter are available online. Regardless, I think Mr. Ooi was pretty scathing in his attack of the Post when he said,
I don’t think the Post, with its 28-page configuration including the classified and news and features befitting the appetite of a village paper, could match the Globe in terms of width and depth in content.
That’s one heck of a thumbs up to the new paper by a foreigner.
Disclaimer
I am a regular tech contributor to the Jakarta Globe
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