Balai Bahasa dan Budaya Indonesia are delighted to let you know that they have signed an agreement with Gramedia, and all Indonesian teachers in NSW are now able to access Gramedia's e-books through the Smart Library app, for free. Username and passwords will be provided to any teachers who are interested.
Please find attached the infographic which contains a link for teachers to register, and a media article about the signing of the agreement.

We have just published a sample unit of work and matching assessment of learning task for Stage 5 Indonesian - Home sweet home!

The key inquiry questions in the unit are:

• - What role does the home play in Indonesian cultures?
• - How does this differ from our own cultures?
• - What do you need to know when visiting Indonesian people?
• - How do Indonesian homes vary from region to region and relate to the history and geography of Indonesia?

There's even a fun 'Renovation rescue"-type game!

The sample unit and assessment task are available on the Stages 4 and 5 Indonesian section of our website.

Sample unit of work to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures AND sustainability – a sustainable future, making changes together.

With HUGE thanks to Ida Harsojo and Christin Anggrahini, we now have Indonesian resources for our generic unit on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures/sustainability.

We are so grateful to all the teachers who have helped us developed language-specific resources to support this unit - keep them coming! You can access the Indonesian version from our Indonesian page.

We have just published a sample scope and sequence for Stage 5 Indonesian – it can be accessed from the Stages 4 and 5 Indonesian page.

We have just published a unit starter (unit of work) and matching assessment task on "Dining out with Indonesian friends!", and updated the Stage 4 scope and sequence to align with these new resources.

The unit starter is fully resourced with everything you need to pick up and teach!

​Access our support via the Stages 4 and 5 Indonesian page.

In response to teacher feedback, we have updated our sample speaking questions for the Indonesian Beginners and Continuers courses.
The questions we originally published were adapted from the old HSC Online site, and feedback indicated that the types of questions asked during the oral examination have changed since HSC Online was first published.
You can access the questions from the Indonesian Beginners site and Indonesian Continuers site respectively.

We have revamped the practice speaking questions from the old HSC Online site, for Indonesian Continuers. Sorted by topic, this is a great document to give your students, so they can prepare for the upcoming oral examination.

It's available from the Indonesian Continuers section of our website.

The NSW Department of Education has developed a new resource to support teachers of Indonesian 7-10.

Waking up in Indonesia embeds the use of online collaboration tools and 21st century learning skills to support students studying the 100-hour mandatory Stage 4 or 100/200 elective Stage 5 Indonesian courses.

Students work collaboratively to research a topic of cultural interest in Indonesia and make a presentation (digital and/or face-to-face) that demonstrates their learning. They investigate key Indonesian words (Stage 4) and conduct an Indonesian Q&A interview (Stage 5) related to their chosen topic.

Access Waking up in Indonesia.

We are very excited to announce the launch of Basa basi - a new online learning resource for Indonesian. The resource contains six videos and accompanying activities, with a range of levels suitable for students in Years 5-12. 

Each video has can be viewed with subtitles on or off and has an accompanying set of downloadable student activity sheets.

In the 'For teachers' section, you will find notes on language use, suggestions for classroom activities, student activity sheets and sample responses as well as links to useful websites.

We hope that you and your students enjoy exploring the resource and perhaps even create some more activities of your own to share with your colleagues.

Click here or on the image below for a direct link to Basa basi.

Being that time of the year… coming up with motivating tasks for our kids I made this activity and thought I would share if anyone else would like to use it.

It is a bit of a QR code quest… the kids get the question sheet then have to look for the QR codes put up around the school, or classroom… wherever really. They scan the codes and watch the videos or read the websites the codes take them to to find the answers.

Anyway everyone is welcome to it…. all based on Indonesia of course. Videos have been watched to make sure they are PG.

Thank you.

Coreena Allen
Year 12 Adviser / SRC Adviser
Merewether High School