Welcome to Resourceful Indonesian, which has now become arguably the most wide-ranging and complete database on the web for both educators and adult learners of Indonesian. From the outset this website was built as a portal for Indonesian teachers to publish and share their resources. This site will only continue to flourish through our collective contributions and input. Please continue to contribute and feel free to provide any constructive comments to help build a worthwhile resource for all Indonesian educators and their learners.
Whilst all contributions made directly to Resourceful Indonesian have been duly acknowledged, this may not always be possible where contributions are a result of third-party referrals. In these instances, where possible, all efforts will be made to identify the original author of the resource. As all resources obtained in this manner are already freely available on the internet to selected groups of Indonesian teachers by referral, the only intention of Resourceful Indonesian is to share these resources with a wider audience of Indonesian educators to better inform the teaching and learning of Indonesian throughout Australia. If you wish to receive acknowledgement for any resource that falls into the above category, please use the Contact Webmaster Form at the bottom of this page to identify the resource. Once this is done, your contribution will be acknowledged.
Jim Athanasiadis - Webmaster
Whilst all contributions made directly to Resourceful Indonesian have been duly acknowledged, this may not always be possible where contributions are a result of third-party referrals. In these instances, where possible, all efforts will be made to identify the original author of the resource. As all resources obtained in this manner are already freely available on the internet to selected groups of Indonesian teachers by referral, the only intention of Resourceful Indonesian is to share these resources with a wider audience of Indonesian educators to better inform the teaching and learning of Indonesian throughout Australia. If you wish to receive acknowledgement for any resource that falls into the above category, please use the Contact Webmaster Form at the bottom of this page to identify the resource. Once this is done, your contribution will be acknowledged.
Jim Athanasiadis - Webmaster
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As of today, the Resourceful Indonesian website has a total of 8773 resources and links. This number represents a resource that can be accessed directly from this site or a direct link to another website such as YouTube. Considering that some of the links open up to websites that, themselves, contain multiple links to other resources or websites of interest to Indonesian educators and learners, Resourceful Indonesian literally provides you with one-stop access to several thousands useful Indonesian resources and links. It is hoped that one day this website will be as famous as Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links which is currently the worlds's largest language resource database. From the standpoint of practicality, layout and general appeal, I feel this website already greatly surpasses Tennessee Bob's. He wins only on the sheer number of links.
You can access or download the latest index to the Resourceful Indonesian website below.
You can access or download the latest index to the Resourceful Indonesian website below.
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Website & Index Last Updated Saturday 10 April 2021
As the webmaster of this site it is incumbent upon me to point out that the website has, from the outset, been designed as a resource portal for use by teachers and mature adult learners of Indonesian. It is not meant to be used by school-aged children for either self-study or research purposes. Some of the content, by the nature of its socio-cultural and linguistic context, is not intended for use by younger learners. The content I refer to is accessed via links to short satirical YouTube video clips depicting Indonesian cultural peculiarities along with an entire Indonesian online comedy series created by the prolific Indonesian online comedy producer MalesBanget.com. These clips are all be found on the ‘How To Act Indonesian’ and 'MalesBanget.com' pages and provide an insight both into the Indonesian psyche and culture as well as into contemporary Indonesian comedy. They also provide valuable listening comprehension practice for upper intermediate and advanced adult learners of Indonesian. So that no one can be left in any doubt as to which specific items I am referring, I have highlighted all of these in RED on the website’s index which is available for download above. If the site is used by its intended audience for its intended purpose then no issues should arise. Please continue to enjoy the website and enhance your language skills by making full use of the many resources and links that it offers.
The Excel Spreadsheet below provides numerous links to resources of interest for teachers of Indonesian. Some of these links are also provided further below on this page but there are sufficiently plentiful new links to justify including this document here. Happy browsing !
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Are you someone who urgently needs to learn some quick Indonesian for a trip to Indonesia but do not have the time for formal instruction? The iLanguages website provides essential online vocabulary and sentence practice in 107 languages, Indonesian being one of them. Access the Indonesian page of iLanguages by clicking on the logo below.
The Balai Bahasa Indonesia Perth site offers a number of extremely useful resources for teachers of Indonesian, key among these being a Resource Packs and Detailed Synopsis notes on a range of popular Indonesian movies suitable for school-age learners. To access the BBIP website, click on the logo below.
Jenni Matthews A teacher of Indonesian in Queensland has supplied the link to WowShack, a fantastic website providing critically annotated photographs around current issues in Indonesia across a range of themes. This is a great resource for Indonesian social and cultural studies. To access the site, click on the link below.
Many of you may be familiar with and have used the Cartoon Story Maker software that is available from the Victorian Government's Language Online website. I have used this software to create a number of cartoons for my Indonesian classes. However, the software has some limitations as to the number of characters and background scenes available, although you are able to import your own additional characters and scenes if you wish. How would you feel, however, if you were able to create your own cartoons online with access to 325 characters, 225 scenes, 45,000 images and the ability to upload your own selection of images as well??? Again, Resourceful Indonesian would like to acknowledge Jenni Matthews for alerting us to the Storyboard That website. To access the site and start creating your own professional comics, click on the link below.
Online translators can be a very useful tool for those who already have a good working knowledge of the target. However, in the hands of the uninitiated (as most school learners tend to be), the resultant translation is invariably far from correct. I have often wondered if there is an appropriate methodology for teaching students how to engage effectively with online translators. PhD student, Penny Coutas from Murdoch University in Western Australia, recently alerted me to a useful article from the Modern Language Teachers of Western Australia website. While this article does not provide any definitive solutions, it does provide some very good activities to engage our post-compulsory learners. To access the article, click on the link below.
Would you like to send your students on an interactive journey of discovery through the main Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Bali and Sulawesi. The website Go Indonesia allows you to do just that! Fasten your seat-belts, click on the logo below and Go Indonesia!!!
Are you looking for new and innovative ways to revitalize the Indonesian (or any other language) program within your school. Explore the many successful case studies from across Australia on the Language Learning Space website. You may even wish to invite the school principal to read one of the case studies associated with your language. To access the website, click on the link below. There are some spectacular success stories, particularly in Indonesian.
Education Services Australia (ESA) has recently created the Language Learning Space (Indonesian). It is designed for teachers and students in Australian schools. It is free. You will find a range of great learning pathways or challenges (built to support the new Australian curriculum) bookended by some graphic novel elements which we think will be very appealing to students. There are 350 resources in the Resource Bank and lots of resources created for the site including:
a series of videos called Bahasa Bytes
a host of materials created for the site by Languages Online
materials created by WestOne in WA
The functionality of the site enables you to easily enrol your classes, to upload your own resources, create quizzes, create your own challenges and monitor the progress of your students.
There’s a free tutor service so you can book your students (individuals or small groups or whole classes) into a Skype (or alternative) session with native speakers in Bali.
You will need to register to use the bulk of the site but the professional learning topics are public-facing. Registration, along with everything else on the site, is free. You will find professional learning topics such as how to set up and promote an Indonesian language program, explorations of key elements of the Australian curriculum, how to manage learner diversity, how to build in a focus on Indonesia in the areas of English, Literacy, the Arts, History and Geography and so on.
There are some great videos showing classrooms at work.
The site was developed to complement the resource we created and funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Education. You can access the site by clicking on the logo below which will take you the teacher logon page where you can register and create an account using your employee email address as proof that you are an Australian-based teacher.
a series of videos called Bahasa Bytes
a host of materials created for the site by Languages Online
materials created by WestOne in WA
The functionality of the site enables you to easily enrol your classes, to upload your own resources, create quizzes, create your own challenges and monitor the progress of your students.
There’s a free tutor service so you can book your students (individuals or small groups or whole classes) into a Skype (or alternative) session with native speakers in Bali.
You will need to register to use the bulk of the site but the professional learning topics are public-facing. Registration, along with everything else on the site, is free. You will find professional learning topics such as how to set up and promote an Indonesian language program, explorations of key elements of the Australian curriculum, how to manage learner diversity, how to build in a focus on Indonesia in the areas of English, Literacy, the Arts, History and Geography and so on.
There are some great videos showing classrooms at work.
The site was developed to complement the resource we created and funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Education. You can access the site by clicking on the logo below which will take you the teacher logon page where you can register and create an account using your employee email address as proof that you are an Australian-based teacher.
Australia Plus is produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and is the online and mobile home of the best Australian content. It is available in English and can also be accessed in Indonesian, Chinese and Pacific Islander Languages by selecting from the drop-down menu at the far right of the Homepage The Indonesian language section is known as Australia Plus Indonesia and can be directly accessed by clicking on the link below.
Are you planning to visit Indonesia or to conduct business with Indonesians and wish to avoid cultural faux pas which could hinder or even destroy a relationship before it even gets off the ground. Indonesians are very sensitive people so it would be to one's benefit to plan ahead by learning a little about Indonesian peculiarities to avoid causing offence. Click on the link below to access a brief but useful summary of the do's and don't's when engaging with Indonesian people and culture.
Frequent users of this website know by now that it contains links to more than a thousand YouTube video clips and documentaries. If, like me, you find it annoying to have your viewing interrupted by things such as comments, suggestions and 'other' things, the following website provides the solution you've been searching for. Just enter the video's URL and enjoy interruption-free viewing.
With the Australian Curriculum introducing the study of Languages at a very early stage, and some jurisdictions either taking up or planning to take up this option, a resource that may be of use to early school learners may be the Indonesian version of Sesame Street which contains a range of resources pitched specifically at this this cohort. To access and explore the Jalan Sesama website, click on the logo below.
Looking for additional activities and resources to supplement or consolidate student learning? At the Beginner Level you need go no further than the Victorian Department of Education Languages Online website. Here you will find 35 topic-based interactive lessons along with numerous accompanying resources in printable PDF document form. The website has now also been enhanced with downloadable software to create your own interactive language games and cartoon strips, To navigate to Languages Online click on the logo below.
Found Languages Online a little simple and would like to move onto an interactive Indonesian language website pitched at the Middle Schooling level? Click on the logo below for a wide array of interactive activities on a range of topics.
The QUIA website is a resource portal for literally hundreds of topics ... one of them being Indonesian. In the Indonesian section you will find no fewer than 74 Interactive activities and games. You have the further option of subscribing to QUIA which will give you access to their wide range of digital templates, such as 'Hangman', that you can use to create your own personalised activities and games. To access the Indonesian page of QUIA, click on the logo below.
The Study Indonesian website is pitched at the Year 6 - 8 levels with lots of online activities and word games reinforcing early literacy-building skills. By clicking on the logo below you be taken directly to the Hangman Game page. From here you can navigate to other pages by using the buttons at the top of the page. The Home button just takes you to an index with no live links so if you open up the site on the Homepage you may not be able to navigate to some of it's more desirable features like the Hangman Game.
For those holiday makers looking for a free online Indonesian course that is set out like a phrasebook, you requirements should be adequately fulfilled by Indonesian Tutorial. To access this resource, click on the logo below.
To access 15 online interactive Beginning Indonesian units from the University of Victoria in Canada, click on the logo below. This resource provides ideal revision practise for the beginner-level adult learner.
The Indonesian Way is a free online course and textbook for the Indonesian language designed for adult beginners. It will take you about 350 hours to complete the 113 lessons. Upon completion of The Indonesian Way it s claimed that you will be able to communicate effectively in Indonesian. To access this online learning program, click on the logo below.
This Reading Comprehension resource from the University of Wisconsin provides a variety of reading activities across everyday common genres such as advertisements, brochures, letters, just to mention a few. The activities are graded at three levels of difficulty. At Tingkat 1 the activities are suitable for Beginner Adult students or as quick revision for Senior Secondary students. To access the activities along with a thorough user guide, click on the logo below.
The Bintang Bahasa website offers an amusing dialogue an a number of activites aimed at adult learners who are learning the language alone at home or online. There is even an entire downloadable 37-page coursebook which I have included below the Bintang Bahasa logo as a pdf file. Click on the logo below to access the site and all its resources.
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The MY LANGUAGES .ORG website contains audio lessons grouped thematically for a large number of languages. These audio lessons are suitable for adults to learn or revise the pronunciation of vocabulary through self study or could be used for the same purpose in the classroom by a teacher of Indonesian from Years 6 - 8. To access the Indonesian section of this website, click on the link below.
The Idenesia Arsip Positip website contains over 230 short videos or mini documentaries in the Indonesian language on topical issues in ranging from environmental issues right through to good governance. The video come from a wider range of sources. some are individually produced and some television station productions both within and outside Indonesia. The video are all in Bahasa Indonesia so they are pitched at senior students and adults with a good grounding in the language. All the videos are also individually available on YouTube bit this very useful website gathers them all under the one umbrella. Click on the logo below and enjoy viewing!
Scoop It is a learning and teaching resource website curated by the the Asia Education Foundation. By clicking on the logo below you will gain direct access to the wide array of resources available on the Indonesia-specific section of the website.
Want to visit a one-stop website with links to a wide array of Indonesian resources? Check out the Indonesian home page of the aussie educator website by clicking on the logo below. Happy browsing.
For a detailed description of the Indonesian language, and to explore a wide range of cultural and cross-cultural issues, click on the bahasakita.com link below. Highly recommended resource for both teachers and senior students.
Now that you have learnt the basics, do you want to find out more about forming Indonesian words and using Indonesian affixes? If your appetite has been whetted click on the IndoDic.com logo below.
Have you ever wondered what languages Indonesian has borrowed from? You may be surprised at the large number of loan words in Indonesian. For a comprehensive list of these words, click on the Wikipedia logo below. You will probably already know or recognise many more words borrowed from English than those listed here.
To access AIYA’s weekly selection of the best reading on Indonesia and the Australia-Indonesia relationship to keep you informed and entertained through the week, click on the logo below.
Interested in the latest up-to-the-minute news broadcast in Indonesian? Click on the logo below to open up the British Broadcasting Corporation's Indonesia page.
Want to read about the latest Indonesian news at the source in English. Click on The Jakarta Post logo below to open the link to The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's oldest and most-respected English language daily.
The introduction of the Jakarta Globe as the city's second daily English-language newspaper has ended the monopoly that the Jakarta post has enjoyed for several decades. Hopefully the competition will raise the standard of journalism, independence and openness at both publications.
To access the widest database of Indonesian media on the web, with links to literally hundred of media outlets throughout the entire archipelago, click on the Indonesia MEDIA logo below.
Want to read in-depth analysis of controversial issues that the mainstream Indonesian media generally doesn't draw attention to? The English-language online journal, Inside Indonesia, has been been documenting such issues for the past 30 years. For some insightful reading into contemporary Indonesian society, click on the logo below.
Interested in finding out the latest topics of discussion about all things Indonesian? The English-language website Indonesia Matters makes for some interesting reading. Click on the logo below.
Having worked with David Goldsworthy at the Queensland LOTE Centre on the New Land New Language project, I came to appreciate his in-depth knowledge of Indonesian and Javanese language and culture and recall many deep and meaningful discussions on some significant and some not-so-significant points of language and culture. David authors 'ausdag' which, in my opinion, is one of the best Indonesian blogs available. He has kindly agreed to allow a direct link to his blog on this website. For some interesting insights into all things Indonesian, click on the logo below.
Do you want to visit the website of a cluster of five Indonesian-teaching schools in Western Australia? It has some very useful and informative links. To access it click on the logo below.
Imagine motivating your classes by creating multiple choice quizzes in Indonesian based on YouTube video clips! Blubbr.tv allows you to do just this. If you create your own samples please email the URL to resourcefulindonesian to share with other teachers on the newly-created 'Just Can't Stop the Blubbr' page. To get started click on the logo below.
Want to create and share your own customised Indonesian-speaking avatar? Click on the Voki link below to get stated!
Would you like to motivate your students and liven up your classes with some interactive PowerPoint Presentation templates? Click on the logo below to access a wide variety of templates.
If you are feeling even more adventurous and would like to add an even wider range of interactive games to your classroom repertoire, click on the logo below. Between this and the above link you'll never find yourself wanting of an arsenal of creative and motivating resources.
Would you like to create various types of puzzles, board games and other activities using both text and images to reinforce or revise vocabulary? You can create these online, print them out and then photocopy them. The one drawback is that you cannot save a digital copy of the puzzle you have created to reuse in the future so make sure you keep a spare copy on file. Below is the link to the Tools For Educators website.
Much like the above website, the MES English website allows you to print 25 different games that are suitable for ESL and foreign language learners alike. It shares the same drawbacks as the above site in that it does not permit you to save any digital copies so you are forced to print either color or black and white versions of the games boards and the accompanying game cards and save one photocopy for future use. You can find the link to the MES English site below.
Want to speed test your Indonesian vocabulary skills on a large range of topics? Open the Quizlet website and type 'Indonesian' into the Search Box.
Another resource that permits learners to speed test their Indonesian vocabulary recognition skills is the Indonesian section of The Internet TESL Journal website. Here you can test yourself on as few as 10 to as many as 4637 vocabulary items ... yes, 4637 vocabulary items in a single test! To access this resource, click on the button below.
If you want to access a website with a large range of Indonesian children's songs and rhymes, you need look no further than Mama Lisa's World. Click on the logo below to find out more.
Do you want an interactive map of Indonesia that will allow your students to pinpoint Indonesian landmarks with accuracy in either 2D or 3D aerial views? If the answer to this is "Yes", click on the National Geographic logo below and start searching. See MONAS and other sites like you've never seen them before!
If you are looking for interactive maps with a difference, then you should really take a look at Scribble Maps. This site can be used for giving compass directions, discussing routes and itineraries and annotating any pertinent information in text boxes. To get you started using Scribble maps, there are quite a number of short video tutorials on YouTube. Just type 'How to Use Scribble Maps' in the search field. To access Scribble Maps, click on the logo below.
If you are looking for an interactive approach to discussing and teaching various aspects of a country's culture, you may find Tag Galaxy useful. It is a very useful piece of online software with an almost limitless photographic database allowing you to introduce various aspects of the target country to the students to facilitate classroom discussion and cultural awareness. To use Tag Galaxy click on the link below and type your initial tag (Indonesia/Bali/Java etc.) in the tag field. Then press 'Go' to start searching for and refining your desired criteria.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like living in Jakarta? The expatriate community in Jakarta have their own website which is full of ideas and suggestions for making your stay in Indonesia's capital stress-free and a culturally-enriching experience. To access this site, click on the logo below.
The Hello Indonesia! website focuses on the topics of The Basics, Langauge, Culture and Travel. It may not be as comprehensive as some other sites but if you don't have a lot of spare time on your hands, this might just be the site for you. You can access the site by clicking on the logo below.
For those interested in the political and social agenda of the Jakarta-based Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam), below you will find a direct link to the organisation's website. It makes insightful reading to view issues from their perspective.
Planning to travel to Indonesia any time soon? It is best to check the latest up-to-the-minute travel advisories for Indonesia on The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website. You can go there by clicking the logo below.
