Indonesian Studies Internet Resources

The purpose of this guide is to list relevant sites relating to Indonesian Studies on the Internet. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area.

SEAsite Indonesia
Resources provided by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at NIU northern Illinois University. It includes vocabulary lessions, reading and conversation sound files and text.

Beginning Indonesian
A range of interactive exercises, especially suitable for first year students, from the University of Victoria, Canada.

Ethnologue Language Database: Indonesia
A catalogue of languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness. It is created by SIL International. There is also a language map and a bibliography of publications.

Indonesia - A Country Study
A profile of the country produced by the Library of Congress. It contains chapters on geography, society, economy, transportation and communications, government and politics, national security and history. There is also a bibliography and glossary.

Indonesia: Society and Culture WWW Virtual Library
A guide to resources and websites hosted by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University.

Indonesian Government Websites
A listing of departments, organisations and research agencies (Not all links are current).

Inside Indonesia
A site created by academics and activists (Indonesian Resources and Information Program - IRIP) in Melbourne to provide high quality and original reportage and analysis about issues in Indonesia which were rarely covered by other media sources.

Maps of Indonesia
Country, city and historical maps provided by the Perry-Castañeda Library, Map Collection.

Radio Australia - Indonesia
This service can be heard through a network of partner FM rebroadcasters and shortwave radio providing a range of bilingual English lessons, information to, from and about Australia and independent news and current affairs focussed on Asia and the Pacific.