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Decimal Place and Thousands Separator Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (along with some former British and American colonies) are among the few countries globally that use a full-stop (period) to indicate the decimal place. In contrast, most other countries opt for a comma. Similarly, while many English-speaking countries use a comma... Read More >...

The website BahasaKita.com, translating to ‘our language’, is managed by Wieke Gur, an Indonesian citizen currently residing in Perth, Australia. Coinciding with the establishment of Indonesian Online, Wieke launched bahasakita.com, marking the beginning of a close and collaborative partnership between Indonesian Online and BahasaKita. The website boasts a comprehensive section on grammar explanations, with a... Read More >...

Of course, you have heard the greeting Selamat Pagi, which simply means “Good Morning”. And you may also have heard Selamat Tidur which is ‘Good Night; Sleep Well’. Yet, it does not mean ‘good’! Do you know what ‘Happy Birthday’ or ‘Happy Anniversary’ is in Indonesian? It is Selamat Ulang Tahun There is also Selamat... Read More >...

A new lesson was added to Serba Serbi Nusantara, our reader for advanced Indonesian, which now has 35 lessons. In this lesson, and in the next few lessons that we plan to develop, we are focusing on Indonesia, its people, languages, and cultures. The lesson is entitled “Mengenali Keragaman Suku Bangsa di Indonesia” (Recognising Indonesia’s... Read More >...

«Indonesian Online» is continuously evolving. In 2019, the intermediate course «Baca Yuk!» and the advanced reader «Serba Serbi Nusantara» each contained 23 lessons. Today, both courses have expanded to 33 lessons, meaning we have added 20 new lessons over the past few years. Creating a lesson is a time-intensive process. One of the biggest challenges... Read More >...

Each time when you log in to Indonesian Online account, the IP from where you log on is recorded, and hence we know from what country you accessed Indonesian Online. We don’t consistently keep track from where our customers log in, but within the last four days, we had log-ins from 14 countries: 6 from... Read More >...

We are very pleased that the Indonesian language textbooks in indonesian-online.com have received almost exclusively good to excellent reviews. A few months ago we were absolutely thrilled. After having received about 50 user-written testimonials within about five years, our rating stood at 5.0. Yes, five point zero. Over years and years we had only positive... Read More >...

We have just finished creating three more lessons for «Baca Yuk!» . All three lessons are based on videos available on YouTube. In order to expose the Indonesian language learning community to a wide variety of texts, «Baca Yuk!» texts embrace a wide range of topics. It is difficult finding YouTube videos that we deem... Read More >...