Online Resources

The websites below are primarily for teacher use. Please check websites before giving students access to them.
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Life on Bali:

http://www.marimari.com/content/bali/events/events.html Bali - Events and Festivals

http://www.hoteltravel.com/indonesia/bali/guides/festivals.htm Bali Guides: Festivals and Holidays

http://www.indo.com/indonesia/events.html  Calendar of Events in Bali

http://www.balilife.com/  Bali Life

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.baliarchitecture.com/ Architecture in Bali

http://home.mira.net/~wreid/bali_p2t.html Information on transport and travelling around Bali
 

Hinduism:

http://www.answers.com/topic/agama-hindu-dharma Information on Hinduism in Indonesia (In English)

http://www.murnis.com/culture/articlebalinesereligion.htm Balinese religion - for example its origin, binary opposites, balance, conflict, the soul, reincarnation, prayer
 

Scouts:

http://www.pramuka.or.id/ Indonesian scouts homepages with information, scout songs and connections (very slow to load)

http://www.kbri-canberra.org.au/events/ev040119cbr.htm Details a visit to the Indonesian Embassy Australia by Indonesian scouts in 2004. (In English)

http://www.sossi.org/badges/indonesia.htm Information and pictures on the badges earned by scouts for stamp collecting.
 

Collages and Art:

http://www.drstamping.com/collagegallery1.html Examples of collages

http://www.globalcollage.com/fresh_start/collage_index.html Aslide show of collages

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/pandai/works.htm Extended learning downloadable worksheets about family, home, etcetera

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.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 SBS world book

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.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=341 This is a lesson plan in English to help students identify the kinds of groups they are born in to and those that they join. Could be adapted for teaching in Indonesian.