Purba Negoro on the future of Javanese language, and learning some easy words and phrases.

A quiz to guess the Malay or Indonesian origins of some loan words in English.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is given the literary parody treatment by Timdog.

Using software to improve your written English, auto-correction of grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes in writing.

Media self censorship in Indonesia, a self-censored media.

The effects of tourism in Bali, neo-colonialist attitudes among western tourists.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic.

Ranking widgets and buttons to show the rank for blogs.

The compulsory usage of Javanese language in schools.

Religious fanaticism, Hitler, and monkeys.

Why Aren’t Australians Learning Indonesian, A Response to Bahasa Indonesia, Australians Don’t Want to Learn Indonesian.

Metro TV’s Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

Multi-culturalism, or what Indonesians might call pluralism, is often spoken of as key to Indonesia’s make-up and stability.

A basic instruction course in bahasa Indonesia, the Indonesian language.

The pronouns of bahasa Indonesia, both standard Indonesian language forms and slang and colloquial forms.