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rganizers of the Borneo Writers Gathering (BWG) will hold a series of activities on Sunday at Pontianak’s Hotel Gajah Mada, including a book launch and review, literary performance and the dissemination of a study on journalists’ perception of Islam.

Yanuarius Viodeogo, the chairman of the BWG’s organizing committee, said the activities would be jointly organized by the Border Blogger Movement (BBM) and the Jakarta Monitoring Foundation. BBM is an organization of bloggers living in areas along the border between West Kalimantan and Sarawak, Malaysia, that aims to publicize reports on village life through the blog.

According to Viodeogo, the BBM team will launch a book titled Voice From the Border, which is filled with the bloggers’ reports and photographs.

The Pantau Foundation will conduct a review of Blur, a book written by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel that it translated and release the results of the research it conducted on the perception of Islam among Indonesian journalists.

“Pantau Foundation’s Imam Sofwan and The Jakarta Post’s senior editor Endy Bayuni will be among the speakers,” said Viodeogo. Kovach is the author of Nine Journalistic Elements and is often heralded as the prophet of American journalism.

Indonesian journalist and bloggers scheduled to attend the BWG will be joined by 10 Malaysian bloggers, who are affiliated with the North Sarawak Writers Association (Putera).