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      Christopher Torchia & Lely Djuhari

      TUTTLE Publishing

       Tokyo Rutland, Vermont Singapore

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

       www.tuttlepublishing.com

      Copyright © 2011 by Christopher Torchia and Lely Djuhari

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011921096

      ISBN: 978-1-4629-1057-1 (ebook)

      This title was previously published as Indonesian Idioms and Expressions.

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      Contents

Introduction 5
Part I: Life Forms 9
1. Creatures 10
2. Characters 27
3. Body Language 45
Part II: Power and Conflict 61
4. Authoritarian Rule 62
5. Money and Politics 79
6. Protest Fever 101
7. A History of Violence 118
Part III: Traditions 145
8. Faith and Fortune 146
9. A Matter of Taste 165
10. Family Affairs 186
11. Wisdom 204
Part IV: Modern Life 213
12. Around Town 214
13. Insults and the Underground 233
14. Hanging Out 251
15. Tech Talk 273
Sources 279
Index 281

      Introduction

      Diam seribu bahasa. Quiet in a thousand languages.

      A rough translation might be: The silence is deafening. It evokes barely repressed anger, or the haughty indifference of a beauty with many suitors.

      Nongkrong. This is a casual phrase, a reference to the Indonesian custom of hanging out, sometimes by squatting on the roadside.

      Mengadu nasib. Tempt fate. Countless Indonesians do this, converging on Jakarta in hopes of finding something better in life. Some succeed, many don’t.

      These and other expressions offer one of the best windows onto the Indonesian culture. Slang, titles, proverbs, nicknames, acronyms, quotations and other expressions

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