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Volume 1, Issue 4

October , 2000

Dari Redaksi

Hai! Gimana kabar? Hope you all had a great holiday and are suitably refreshed to tackle another exciting term. I am thrilled to be able to bring you yet another edition of Bahasa Raya. I am also thrilled at the phenomenal growth of the subscriber base, lately we have been averaging 10 new subscribers every week!! For such a niche subject area, that's great! You will notice that we have improved the delivery of this ezine. We thought that it was best to just send you an email with a link to where we have placed the ezine and people can access it when it is most convenient. Also, we won't clog up your email box, AND we can put in graphics!!! All in all, it's a learning curve, but we're learning fast:)

I want to thank all of those faithful subscribers who wrote to ask when the next issue was coming. It was longer than I expected between issues:) but we have been doing some amazing back end work on the Kambing web site and I am very excited about some of the excellent products we will be able to deliver to the Indonesian teaching and learning community in the coming few weeks. (More about that later.)

In this issue we have some great ideas and resources to kick off the term.

For Primary teachers, you can have some great fun with a unit of work on Indo Rap.

For Secondary Teachers, we bring you some new ideas to follow up on the Olympic Games.

For teachers of Senior students, we explore cross cultural humour and lingustic challenges which are philosophical!

You will find some great new products in the advertisement section of this Bahasa Raya and don't miss the announcements, which are dated, so it's crucial you look at those first, if you don't want to miss out on anything.

Needless to say, that I'd LOVE some feedback, and even more than that, I'd love som new submissions, so that I can get the next issue out quickly this time!!:)

Calling For Submissions For The Next Issue....... !!!!!! Please eMail me today:

suzanne@kambing.com.au

Terima kasih dan selamat membaca dan mengajar!

Suzanne Weatherburn

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For Primary Teachers

Hi there, Primary TeachersJ You are without doubt, the most hard working group of teachers of all! (I know, I used to be one!!!) They expect more and more of you and the pressure to "display" your children's work, has never been greater, has it?

Well, here's a great incentive to take heart and plunge yourself into a very rewarding and highly motivating activity which has a high return on your investment of time and energy with your students.

In this issue of Bahasa Raya, I am going to share with you an easy and highly motiving way to not only have your children learn some Indonesian, or cultural, social or geographical knowledge relating to Indonesia, but also to combine their learning experience to produce an item for assembly, so that you can produce some results at a performance level which is highly entertaining for your school community.

Not only is this activity all of the above, but you can also count on the fact that your mixed ability classroom will be catered for, with the high end of talented students producing amazing results as usual, but also the lower end of the classroom with your less able students surprising you with what they might come up with!

To top it all off, this activity is so motivating, that your students will be clamouring for more, loving every moment of Indonesian AND telling the rest of the school what a great subject you are teaching, and maybe even, what a great teacher you are???

"What is it?" You ask. Well, it's "RAP"! And it is hugely flexible. The following examples are just two ways you can use the idea, but you and your students will definietly come up with some better ones, I'm sure! In fact, I would truly like to get some feedback from anyone who uses this actuvuty and has some excellent results-just email me and let me know how it went. I'd be thrilled to hear from you! (Email to: suzanne@kambing.com.au )

It's Rap! - Kids Love It - Parents Love Seeing It - And It's A Great Teaching Tool!

Introducing the rap theme can engage lessons for a couple of weeks initially. After the this initiation into the rap theme, it is sometimes a good idea to have a rest from it for a number of weeks and then re-introduce it with the students completing the "in-class assignment". So then, you have two-stage programme.

Introducing the theme.

When you introduce these lessons, I find it necessary to demonstrate one of the following raps to begin with. (Sorry, but it needs to be modelled! If you are really introverted and refuse to perform in front of your students, then you will have to choose a very extroverted student to help you demonstrate it-by taking them aside ahead of time and getting them to practise at home as a "secret assignment")

If you can get the children clapping a rhythm to accompany you, they are already participating and enjoying your performance at the same time. The beat which seems to be popular, I find, as an accompaniment (and which is familiar to the students as it is used to accompany many sporting events) is the "Queen" rock group's greatest hit: "We will…we will…rock you..!!" Basically, it's three beats and a rest.

You'll have to don an American accent I'm afraid, (sorry, but it's the home of Rap), and let yourself go a little. (I always preface my performance with the assurance that they will be very much better than me in this endeavour and they need to regard my performance as just a "rough" guideJ

Preparation For The Student Performance

After the teacher's show, it's the students' turn. Divide the class into groups of approximately 4-8 students of mixed abilities. (Friendship groups often work well.) Give each student within the group one of the two raps which follow. (ie Lingo/Geo rap). Tell each group that they are to come up with their own rendition of the number. They must read the instructions carefully. If half the class is working on one rap and th other half is working on the alternative, it's a good mix.

Practise, Practise, Practise.

Allow each group some space to practise and have a 15-20 minute practice session tow or three times during that week in preparation for their final performance. It is essential in that time that you monitor the groups closely and make sure that there are no problems and that they are indeed ready to perform.

You might like to have a competition between the groups and have the best performers win a prize. Or alternatively, you could invite an audience on the big day to watch the "Indonesian Rap Show".

Video is another option. You could video each performance and repeat it every year with different student groups too!

A Few Weeks Later - The Student Assignment

Several weeks later, after that initial rap show has succeeded, you can re-introduce the theme by giving the groups a more challenging task: creating their own raps.

You will need to use the assignment sheet now. Introduce the idea by reading through the assignment sheet with the students and discussing the possibilities. (Using the student samples as overheads is not a bad idea at this stage.)

Brainstorming as a whole class can also be successful in generating further possibilities. The students are then given the assignment sheets to go away with and a similar pattern of "practise/perfect and perform" formula can be used again over a period of a week or so.

You must be careful to provide plenty of support to the individual groups in this time in order to maximize their learning and make the task more meaningful and enjoyable with a few of your subtle suggestions here and there.

Once again the final performance may be for a particular audience-say other classes, parents, etc. or for video. They may only want to perform for each other. The options are all there.

Here are the two sample raps for you to use as the models in your first introductory stage of this theme. The first is based on vocabulary acquisition and the second is based on acquiring geographical information.

(Note: This rap lesson came directly from the book called Doing Indonesian, which is a book full of performance based group work lessons like the one above. If you want to purchase this book, it is available in the   Kambing Online Bookshop

Well, that's it for the primary school offering for this issue of Bahasa Raya.

If you have any submissions for this section, any idea for teachers of primary Indonesian to share, it would be much appreciated. Or even feedback on any of the ideas you may have used from previous issues would be nice to share too, including samples from your students' creations - just email them to suzanne@kambing.com.au

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Article For General Interest

The internet is an absolute joy for finding gems of  wisdom like the ones below. Thank goodness for email - this one arrived in my email box last week from an unknown sender. Whoever they were, "thank you" ! and "Please send more of the same!"

Lets face it: English is a stupid language!

There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England, French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.

If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth.

If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!?

Why do people recite at a play yet play at a recital, park on driveways yet drive on parkways?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill in a form by filling it out.

And a bell is only heard once it goes!

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course isn't a race at all).

That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible. And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this story it ends?

And more......................... Some food for "Thought" Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't  people from Holland called "Holes?"

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For Secondary Teachers

Well, we all breathed a sigh of relief at the end of term 3, and really enjoyed the "best Olympics ever!"

Although most teachers would have done a unit of work on the Olympics, it seems a pity not to do some follow up work on this amazing event, now that it is over!

Below are 10 ideas for you to consider using with your students for a short revisiting of these Olympic Games, which let's face it, will be  a vivid memory to them long after they have left school!

1. The students could construct a timeline of the 17 days of the Olympics and in groups, they could each focus on one day and write up a report in Indonesian of the major events on that day, including any memorable incidents, or moments. This report could be compiled and sent to their friends in Indonesia, by way of email or even posted to the school's web site
   
2. The students could make a video describing the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in Indonesian. They could write a commentary about some of the sites that Sydney has to offer and produce this video in the form of an advertisement for tourism, enticing visitors from Indonesia to come and see the Olympic city.
   
3. The students could produce their own Indonesian newspaper, reporting specifically on the 2000 Olympic Games. This could be managed in groups, with each group taking on a specific event, or sport, and coming up with pictures and articles to be put into the newspaper.
4. The students could produce cards of the Olympic athletes, with their picture and a brief summary about the athlete in Indonesian. These cards could form a class pack and some of the more creative students could come up with some card games that could be played with the cards.
5. The students could design a new product to sell for the Indonesian export market, with Olympic symbols/graphics, and all text in Indonesian.
6. The students could write a letter of thanks from the Indonesian peoople to the organisers of the Olympic games.
7. The students could go on an excursion to the Olympic Site and design a cassette tourist guide in Indonesian. This would be a very useful assignment and the cassette, once produced, could be used as a comprehension resource for future years and classes!
8. The students could design a quizz in Indonesian on the 2000 Olympics and try it out on other Indonesian classes!
9. The students who are artistic create a mural with Indonesian and Australian information/images/text, using the theme of the 2000 Olympic Games. The results could be posted up in the school library!
10. For the poets and writers in the class, or if individual tasks are appropriate, you could get them to create a literary piece on the games - but be sure to give them a model first, to get those ideas flowing!

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For Teachers of Senior Students

A Joke For Senior School Students

There is no doubt that cross-cultural humour is one of the most interesting topics one could study. As humans, we all love to laugh, and it has been proven that it is rather good for our mental health. Of course, it is also widely recognised (and you only need to travel to realize this), that senses of humour differ from country to country.

In every culture however, there exists a series of jokes which usually hone in on a particular stereotypical ethnic or otherwise gender based minority group and the jist of the jokes are that those particular targetted groups are not too bright, and therefore end up as the subject of the jokes. In Australia, for example, we talk about blonde jokes and Irish jokes, in the US they make Polish jokes, in Hungary, they target the Russians, etc, etc,

The jokes are rather universal, and not particularly serious in that they are not meant to be taken seriously or offensively, and therefore, no harm is meant by them, and no offence is usually taken.

They are, however, universally recognised and told over and over again. The joke below is in this category. Get your students to work out what the joke is about and if it has a moral to the story. Then after this exercise, perhaps they could translate a well known Aussie joke into Indonesian and see if it works.

It is a very interesting exercise indeed! (I'd be delighted if you can share some of your results with us for the next issueJ )

Useful Translation Activity For Senior Students

All your students will have heard of Albert Einstein - and his thoughts on sprituality make interesting reading, particularly in Indonesian. This could be a very useful pairwork activity - if you divide the class into pairs and give each pair one or two of these to translate and to discuss, it should provoke much food for thought. Also, you could possibly then have the more advanced students try to teach the rest of the class what the point was about, only speaking in Indonesian as their form of instruction! The class members could decide whether they "setuju/tidak setuju" and "mengapa?"

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Announcements

Below are some items on educational events, courses and any information of general interest to indophiles everywhere.

If you can provide an item to advertise in this section of Bahasa Raya, please email me the information asap. I will be only too happy to share it with everyone.

suzanne@kambing.com.au

By the way, it costs nothing to place an announcement, unless you are a commercial enterprise! It is merely a community service to Indonesian teachers on this mailing list.

For commercial advertising enquiries, please email a request to:

sales@kambing.com.au

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Subject: WINTER LECTURE SERIES

8.00 pm Thursday 7 September
Dr Greg Barton (School of Social Inquiry, Deakin University)
'Islam and Contemporary Indonesian Politics'

Venue : St Hilda's College, University of Melbourne, Parkville
Cost: $10 (Students: $5) (includes light Supper)
Please call the History Institute on (03) 9344 6209 (message) to register or
email to histinst@vicnet.net.au
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Information on Graduate Certificate in Education: LOTE Teaching

Recognition Services, Professional Learning Services Branch - Department of Education, Tasmania.

Kursus ini diajarkan kepada guru-guru di Tasmania yang mau mengajarkan bahasa Indonesia, Perancis, Jerman, Itali atau Jepang. Ada juga guru sekolah dasar yang ingin mendukung program bahasa asingdi sekolahnya masing-masing.

Yang diperlukan peserta masuk:

• Sudah bergelar (* atau suatu sama dengan gelar)
• Pengalaman mengajar
• Kompetensi dalam bidang direksi kelakuan murid

*Kalau ada guru yang belum bergelar tetapi bisa menjelaskan pengalaman dan kecakapan yang setinggi gelar, guru menemui keperluan tersebut.

Guru bisa menghadiri pelajaran "muka ke muka" atau melalui "videoconferencing". (Misalnya di kelas saya ada enam guru. Tiga berada di Hobart bersama dosen dan yang lain itu di Burnie (350kms dari tempat siaran).

Kursus dibagikan tiga tingkat, 1, 2 dan 3 menurut Australian Second Language Proficiency Ratings. Di dalam setiap tingkat ada empat modul: pembicaraan, pendengaran, pembacaan dan penulisan. Guru bisa mulai belajar tingkat dan modul yang sesuai ketrampilannya. Kompetensi diakui Recognition Services. Ada juga, modul Metodologi Mengajar Bahasa Asing.

Kursus membiarkan kaum guru mengikuti pelajaran bahasa asing kepada guru-guru dari berbanyak tempat di seluruh Tasmania. Kesempatan seperti ini sangat penting unuk masa depan pelajaran bahasa asing sebab semakin banyak sekolah dasar mengajar bahasa asing di Tasmania.

Danielle Bresnehan

Senior Education Officer – Languages Other Than English

Professional Learning Services Branch

Department of Education Tasmania

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TWO IMPORTANT MESSAGES FROM AIA

Dear Friends,

The Australia Indonesia Association invites you and your family and friends to our Ten Pin Bowling Fun Night 2000 on Friday, September 29th, 2000, at the AMF Bowling Centre Enfield,  546 Liverpool Road, Strathfield South, commencing at 7.30 pm, at a cost of normal bowling prices ($8.90 for 1 game, including shoe hire, or $15.90 for 2 games, including shoe hire). 

RSVP asap to Sarah Vaughan on 02 9703 5022 (business hours) or Megan Lavender on 02 9747 2920 (after hours) or 0419 419 269 (mobile)

We look forward to seeing you on the 29th

Regards

Megan.

Miss Megan J. Lavender, B.A., Dip.Ed., A.T.C.L.,                                                                    

President - Australia Indonesia Association                                                                              

Telephone: 02 9747 2920  Facsimile: 02 9703 5520
Mobile: 0419 419 269  Email: lavender@hotkey.net.au
Address: G.P.O. Box 802, Sydney 1043, New South Wales, Australia

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Dear Friends,

The Australia Indonesia Association invites you and your family and friends to our Spring 2000 Dinner in the Forest on Friday, October 27th, 2000, at the Spice Forest, Indonesian on Darling, 415 Darling Street, Balmain, commencing at 7.00 pm for7.30 pm, at a cost of $34.50 per person (AIA members only $29.50).

RSVP on 02 9747 2920 or 0419 419 269.

We look forward to seeing you on the 27th.

Regards,

Megan.

Miss Megan J. Lavender, B.A., Dip.Ed., A.T.C.L.,

President Australia Indonesia Association

Telephone: 02 9747 2920  Facsimile: 02 9703 5520
Mobile: 0419 419 269  Email: lavender@hotkey.net.au
Address: G.P.O. Box 802, Sydney 1043, New South Wales, Australia

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**VERY USEFUL CIVICS COURSE FOR TEACHERS**

Attention: School Principals

Language and SOSE co-ordinators/teachers !!

The Civic School Project

Teaching for democracy in Indonesian classrooms

What's it about?

The Civic School project aims to implement strategies for democratic and inclusive teaching in schools in West Sumatra for the revised civics curriculum now in operation in Indonesia. The project will enable six in-service and six pre-service teachers of Indonesian to team teach with Indonesian teachers for a two week period in late January-early February 2001. The Australian teachers will have opportunities to improve their Indonesian language proficencies through classroom interactions, homestay experiences, and language seminars organised by the State University of Padang. The project is chiefly funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, which will cover teachers' airfares Tasmania/Padang return . Dates (to be confirmed) are: 27 January 2001 Depart from Tasmania;

12 Feb 2001. Return to Tasmania. There will be two preparatory workshops: one in Launceston, 18th November; one in Hobart, 2nd December.

Who's eligible to apply? 

Teachers with:

1. An interest in education for citizenship
2. Qualifications or demonstrated proficiency in Indonesian
3. Willingness to enrol in or undertake units in the University's Graduate Certificate in Education/Masters of Education. For details of what's available see page 2.
4. Preparedness to attend the two one-day workshops associated with the project (Nov and Dec) 2000

What will it cost me?

Accommodation ($325) plus personal costs such as visa, inoculations, transport, lunches, optional trips.

How do I apply?

Applicants should apply in writing by Friday 13th October 2000 to:
Lesley Harbon, Faculty of Education, Locked Bag 1-307 Launceston

Applicants should include a relevant CV, (two pages max), after hours contact details, and should address the four criteria (two pages max), listed above. A selection will be made from applicants by mid-October.

How do I find out more?

For extra information:

• Check the website http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/users/laharbon/incountry.htm>
• Contact one or other of the following:

Lesley Harbon, 63243909; email: Lesley.Harbon@utas.edu.au
Julianne Moss, 62262550; email Julianne.Moss@utas.edu.au
Mary Fearnley-Sander, 62262557; email: Mary.FearnleySander@utas.edu.au

Course award details

Graduate Certificate/Masters units

Units of study offered in the Graduate Certificate and Masters program include:

• LOTE/ESL
• Teaching & Learning
• Comparative Curriculum
• Professional In-country Experience: SOSE
• Professional In-country Experience : LOTE
• Civics Education
• Inclusive education

Bachelor of Education Inservice

Units of study offered in the Bachelor of education Inservice program include:

• Comparative Curriculum Issues
• Studies in Teaching
• Inclusive education 

Bachelor of Education

Units of study offered in the Bachelor of Education program include:

• Comparative Curriculum

Bachelor of Teaching

Units of study offered in the Bachelor of Teaching program include:

• Component of LOTE practicum

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KARTINI ARTICLE

Here is a letter responding to an article in a previous issue - and letting us know of another valuable resource to use with our students on the topic of JERMAL. Thanks, Brenda, for your feedback-much appreciated by all of us.

Dear Suzanne,
Thanks for the last issue. I'm looking forward to digesting it.

My students and I were very interested [and horrified] to read the
article about the Jermal workers quoted in Bahasa Raya, March.

Just last week I bought the 18 Mei edition of KARTINI, [nomor mileniun 2009]
which contains another article on jermal, entitled:
Jermal, cerita kekerasan Seksual Pada Anak-anak,
and advertised on the cover as JERMAL - Neraka pekerja anak.

I'll quote the synopsis from the daftar isi:

'Nasib pekerja anak di jermal, pantai timur Sumatera Utara,
sungguh memprihatinkan. Dengan upah sangat rendah, mereka
bekerja 20 jam sehari. Bukan cuma itu, mereka juga kerap
diperlakukan kasar, bahkan jadikan obyek pelampiasan seksual
pekerja dewasa. "Bila menolak, saya takut dibuang ke laut,"
keluh Marihot [13 tahun], seorang di antara pekerja jermal.
Adakah perlindingan bagi mereka?'

I can't find KARTINI's web site in the magazine, and it's not on Indolinks.
I wondered if the publishers/editors would allow you to include the text in
Bahasa Raya, May ed. It would be good advertising, wouldn't it! At the
very least other B.Raya subscribers might like to know that there is such an
article.

Thanks for all your work, Suzanne,
Brenda Williams.

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STOP PRESS!!! ATTENTION INDOPHILES EVERYWHERE!

The Annual Indo Update Seminar Series Is On Again This Week! See You There!

Provisional program is available at the Update Conference website:

http://economics.anu.edu.au/ip/Update2000.htm

Karen Nulty
Administrator
Indonesia Project
Economics Division
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Asia Pacific School of
Economics & Management
The Australian National University
CANBERRA ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA

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Interesting Web Sites

In this section you will find some great Indonesian sites to visit for you and for your students. It is just wonderful to see so many springing up everywhere. Gone are the dark days of "not enough" and here to stay are the "days of plenty" - we just need to be able to sort out the best of them all!

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/indonesia/index.htm  This site is a MUST for all teachers to visit and has some excellent resources for both teachers and students.It is a combined effort by Curriculum Corporation and the Asia Education Foundation, with funding from the Australia-Indonesia Institute. The authors (Kathy Kiting & Helen Agostino) are well known to me and have already produced a number of excellent resources. I highly recommend this site. (By the way, the site is a semi-finalist in the Telstra "web awards" for 2000, so I'm not the only one who thinks it's good!"

 www.hebatindo.com  A great new site by Clayton Wehner - (one of those no doubt very fluent ex Point Cook graduates), with lots to offer all of us. His site is refreshing, new and you and your students could certainly gain much from spending some time surfing there!

http://web.access.net.au/~ppendit/index_nsc.htm (Indonesia di Melbourne) A new site with a difference! If you are in the vicinity of Victoria, there is much happening to see! Also has an excellent Berita section for your senior students.

No Longer Coming Soon - But Here!

Brand new, "New Look" web site for Kambing Int Press! Has replaced the old site at the same address: www.kambing.com.au Includes bookshop, chat pages for your students, a teachers' bulletin board, students', teachers' and travellers' sections, and much, much more!!! We are now live on air! Check us out again!

Coming Soon!

NEW E - courses coming in fourth term -

• An advanced cartoon based course for senior students at yr 11, 12, and Tertiary levels
• A course for ALL STUDENTS & TEACHERS wanting to make their language learning a profitable experience

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 NEW!NEW!NEW! - VIDEOS fromKoolfilm

These initial three videos are superb and complement many of the topics in the national curriculum.

The first Mbak Jamu is the story of Mulyani, a young girl (Mbak) from Solo in Central Java. She tells us the story of her first day selling traditional medicine (jamu) on the streets of Jakarta. It comes with English sub-titles.

The second in the series is entitled Bedeng, and this video gives us a glimpse of the life in one of Jakarta's poorest inner suburbs. (The literal translation of "Bedeng" is an area inhabited by squatters, who build shelters from materials collected, scrounged or stolen from the streets of Jakarta.

The third video in the Insight Indonesian Video Library series is called Pendapat Arahmaiani, who is a well known Indonesian artist, who co-ordianted and performed in the first International Performing Arts Festival in Indonesia, in March 2000. She talks about her performance, and the message which she wants to communicate to her audience. It is an excellent resource for senior students who are investigating colloquial language in a ngobrol-ngobrol style.

These videos are all in stock and are available from our bookshop now! At only $70 each, they represent excellent value for money. Also, there are more videos in production right now, so it's a good time to start collecting the series.

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