Online resources

The websites below are primarily for teacher use. Please check websites before giving students access to them.
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Indonesian online magazines and newspapers:

http://tasyaonline.com/v2/index.php  Tasya Kids magazine - Indonesian and English content. This site has chat, so students must be supervised. However it is an excellent resource for teachers, providing authentic text that can be used with students. There are sections including film reviews, stories and animated advertisements.

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/indonesi.htm Links to many Indonesian newspaper and magazine sites

http://kompas.com/ Kompas online newspaper

http://www.iit.edu/~marddid/review.html Film reviews in Indonesian

http://members.datafast.net.au/indolinx/papers.html Lists of links to online newspapers and magazines

http://www.yellowpages.co.id/index.asp Indonesian yellow pages - useful for online advertisements

http://indonesia.elga.net.id/news.html Indonesian Media Links

Film:

http://www.jobmonkey.com/teaching/asia/html/entertainment.html This site has an interesting note about going to the pictures in Indonesia

http://hsc.csu.edu.au/indonesian/background/youth_culture/urban_rural/
youth_read/Youth_read_tasks.html Sample reading task  - a film review - for NSW HSC online. Could be a suitable extension activity

http://filemkita.com/khys/festival_03.html Film review site

http://id.catcha.com/www/Hiburan/Film/more4.html Access to other sites around films and movies in Indonesia

http://www.gadis-online.com/Gosip/Film/Index.asp   Film reviews from Gadis Magazine (teen girls) on Fantastic Four, War of the Worlds etc. In Indonesian, may need vocabulary support

http://www.gadis-online.com/Gaul/Ngobrol/Content.asp?id=978  Talks about the making of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (actors, special effects etc) in Indonesian.

Shopping:

http://www.expat.or.id/info/info.html#Shopping Scroll down to 'shopping for your daily needs'

Surfing: There are many sites available about surfing at Ulu Watu, including these

http://www.underwatercolours.com/indonesia/uluwatu.html This site has 360° panoramas of the view at Ulu Watu and the entrance to surfing at Ulu Watu through a cave; as well as general information.

http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Uluwatu/ Interesting site with photos and information about Ulu Watu from a surfer's perspective, using a fact file genre.

http://www.iloveblue.com/bali_gaul_funky/jepret/detail/54.htm
Site for Balinese youth, has story on Suluban Beach (near Ulu Watu) which is popular for surfing. *Has other interest point for an ezine such as bloggers, pearls of wisdom quotes in Indonesian, zodiac, forum on various topics, song words to download

Online dictionaries:

http://www.kamus-online.com/?lang=en

http://www.toggletext.com/ Toggletext can 'translate' web pages as well as passages of text. Of course, like all automatic translation sites it has limitations.

Other useful sites:

http://www.indoinfo.com/language/greetings.htm  Indonesian Language: Greetings, Courtesies and Salutations

http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/indonesia/indonesia_brief.html#cust Some Dos and Don'ts in Indonesia

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/nalsas/pdf/assessing.pdf  A research report on assessing and reporting student outcomes in Asian languages (Japanese and Indonesian). Contains the Key Performance Measures tables for Indonesian.

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/indonesia/teacher/resource/links.htm Access Asia web sites and resources about Indonesia

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/ Asia EdNet

http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/aef/ Asia Education Foundation

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/ The Learning Federation

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/id.html CIA fact book

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/aussieed/worldinformation.htm Aussie Educator world information page

http://www.deptan.go.id/HomePageBBKP/PWP/fivims.htm takes a long time to load but has all sorts of statistics about Indonesia – in Indonesian

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