Posted by ‘The Indonesian Way’, a textbook for the Indonesian language by George Quinn and Uli Kozok. Expressions of disagreement are often prefaced with an…
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By most counts almost 90% of Indonesians are Muslims. This adds up to over 200 million people making Indonesia the largest Muslim country in the…
The Garuda clutches in its talons a scroll bearing the National Motto of Indonesia, “Bhinneka Tunggal lka” . It means Unity in Diversity. Sutasoma Bhineka…
Indigenous dress (in Indonesian often called pakaian adat, especially when it is being worn in a formal or ceremonial context) is still the normal style of…
How did Arabic loanwords end up in Indonesian?1 Various answers to this intriguing question have been put forward in an effort to trace the long road these…
As the lowest unit in the Indonesian paramilitary, hansip, short for pertahanan sipil or civil defense, are responsible for matters concerning security and order in…
Dr. Tom Boellstorff University of California, Irvine Many homosexual men in Indonesia speak what they call bahasa gay ‘gay language’, a linguistic phenomenon based upon…
Many homosexual men in Indonesia speak what they call bahasa gay ‘gay language’, a linguistic phenomenon based upon bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Indonesia’s national language. Bahasa…
The language situation in Papua It has been said that Indonesian is a language with one formal register and a thousand informal registers. This paper…
Second-person pronoun substitutes can be very tricky. Engkau, kau and kamu can only be used to address a younger person, one’s subordinate or among good…