Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Indonesia.
- noun A person of Indonesian ancestry.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the Malay Archipelago.
- noun A subfamily of Austronesian that includes Malay, Tagalog, and the languages of Indonesia.
- noun A dialect of Malay that is the official language of Indonesia.
- adjective Of or relating to Indonesia, the Indonesians, or their languages or cultures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or from the East Indian islands.
- Of or pertaining to a supposed aboriginal race of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, resembling Europeans in general appearance and believed by some authors to be related to them.
- noun An individual belonging to the Indonesian race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of a race forming the chief pre-Malay population of the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the Indonesian race.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Indonesia.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Indonesia or Indonesians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Referring to
Indonesia , its people, or the Indonesian language. - noun Person living in or coming from Indonesia.
- proper noun The common language spoken in
Indonesia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Indonesia
- noun the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages
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Indonesia's presidential candidates held their final rallies Saturday ahead of only the second direct elections for the country's head of state since the fall of the Suharto INDONESIAN President and his deputy, Jusuf Kalla, have moved to heal a rift that developed on the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the incumbent Indonesian leader, is leading in the country's presidential elections as voting draws to a close.
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Global Voices in Indonesian is taking it one step at a time, and it's truly a labor of love.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Carolina Chandra Rumuat 2009
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Global Voices in Indonesian is still a baby but we hope that it will grow as big as Global Voices in French or in Spanish.
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Carolina Chandra Rumuat 2009
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Doctor Hamy, who first gave this extension to the term Indonesian, points out that the Battaks and other pre-Malay peoples of Malaysia so closely resemble the Eastern Polynesians, that the two groups should be regarded as two branches of an original non-Malay stock.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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Once these heads of states and government arrive, what happens is that the Protocol and Liaison Service will have an officer or two out front, greeting heads of states and government, simply welcoming them and ushering them into the General Assembly hall or into what we call the Indonesian lounge, which is where they can relax before the meeting actually starts.
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He also welcomed what he called the Indonesian government's flexibility on the East Timor question.
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She carefully extracted her right hand, offered it to me, and said, “terima kasih” – thank you in Indonesian, but literally translated as “receive love.”
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She carefully extracted her right hand, offered it to me, and said, “terima kasih” – thank you in Indonesian, but literally translated as “receive love.”
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Any rational person, though, has to conclude that this has been a problem within Indonesian Islam, and had to be dealt with in large part by Indonesian Muslims.
Global Voices in English » Terrorism crackdown in Indonesia 2009
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