Online Resources

The websites below are primarily for teacher use. Please check websites before giving students access to them.
If a link does not open, try copying the link and pasting it into the address bar of your browser.

Indonesian foods:

http://www.indo.com/culture/food.html Gastronomical tour of Bali.

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

http://www.expat.or.id/info/tradmarkets.html   Information (in English) for expats in Indonesia. Explains Indonesian daily markets, what to expect, bargaining tips and describes layout of PD Pasar Jaya in Jakarta.

http://www.expat.or.id/info/bahasa.html
This has basic language examples with sound files (Indonesian native speaker). Language is appropriate for shopping experience (greetings, requesting assistance e.g. how much is… have you got…).

http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm Look for unit on Rice Growing: The Global Crop.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/satoyama/media/rice_01q.html View an animation of rice growing throughout a growing season.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/satoyama/hillside.html View the nine steps in building rice fields.

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/9000/spices/indexSpices.html Spices and the Spice Routes: Explorers of the East.

http://www.astaspice.org/history/history_main.htm The Lure of Spices.

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/indonesia/teacher/classrom/king.htm Lower secondary SOSE unit looking at Indonesia and exploring the links between the growth of the Indonesian spice industry and early European contact.

Indonesian recipes:
(There are many web sites around the topic of traditional food and recipes. These are just a few.)

http://www.asiafood.org/glossary_1.cfm?alpha=S&wordid=3308&startno=1&endno=25 Good food glossary for Asian ingredients.

http://www.jakartarestaurant.com/recipe1.htm  Javanese recipes.

http://www.baliguide.com/balifood/ Balinese food.

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2316/2316_culturedreams_recipe.pdf Students record a favourite family recipe that reflects on their cultural heritage.

Currency converters:

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddpay/currency/

http://www.ratesfx.com/rates/rate-converter.html 

http://members.datafast.net.au/indolinx/convert3.htm       

Search Engines:

Australian Google http://www.google.com.au/

Indonesian Google http://www.google.com/intl/id/

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 resources:

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.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/ Education Department of Victoria Languages Online website

http://www.indonesiaphoto.com/index.php Selections of photos and articles

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

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