This page provides online resources to assist users in carrying out web-based research on Indonesia and East Timor. Suggestions for additional links are always welcome!

Edited by Elizabeth Coville (ecoville@gmail.com)

What's Up on the Web:

A fortnightly update on items of special interest to researchers on Indonesia and East Timor and accessible through links on this page.

# 20 - Winter medley

  As I wrap up teaching my Indonesia course, I thought I'd pass on a handful of sites that may be of use to others, even though I don't have enough examples in any one category to build a separate column for each.

 Maps:  If you are giving a quiz on geography, go here to download a free blank country map of Indonesia, even though you'll need to pencil in the border with East Timor.  Saves a lot of time.

 Bahasa:  If you want to give students a feel for the language, the SEAsite has lots to offer.  I especially liked the section on Indonesian Proverbs, but of course there are many other genres as well -- conversation, cartoons, news, prose, poetry, etc.  Needless to say, it's not just text but also drawings, photographs, and sound.

 Human rights:  A few weeks ago, I wrote about Waruno Madhi's section on Pramoedya.  That section is part of a larger one that WM calls Persons of Public Life which is easy to find because it is in color, and which includes, at the moment: Joesoef Isak, Theys Eluay, Yosepha Alomang, Sulami, and Munir.

 At the very end of that section and at the beginning of one on Territorial and Ethnic (and Minority) Issues, Waruno shows how to find the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Indonesian, and also in the following regional languages:  Acehnese, Balinese, Buginese, Javanese, Madurese, Minangkabau. and Sundanese (and Tetun as well).  Go the Alphabetical list of the 388 languages into which the UDHR is translated.  I hope I didn't overlook any more Indonesian ones.

 So -- from maps, to language, to human rights -- just a few of the resources that someone(s) produced by dint of hard work and that the internet delivers to your living room.

posted on Feb 9, 2007
 

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