Indonesia
From AASL
| Name of the country/area | Indonesia |
|---|---|
| Formal name of the country/area | Republic of Indonesia |
| Country/area information | The World Factbook(CIA) |
| Wikipedia(English) |
Indigenous signs for "Indonesia"
Movies
Sign of country name "Indonesia" (Data offered by Deaf informants in Indonesia; movie made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Illustrations in the literature
"Indonesia" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 11.)
Spoken languages
Bahasa Indonesia
Sign languages
Related sign languages:
Population of Deaf/deaf people
2,000,000 deaf people (1993).
The population of the signers of Benkala Sign Language: 41 (2007 SIL)
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf (IAWD) (WFD member, cited from WFD website)
Indonesian Welfare Association of the Deaf (WFD member, data in 2002, cited from "Signs of country names" (Japanese edition, Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed. 2002. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf))
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Indonesia. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 1997. Kamus sistem isyarat bahasa Indonesia. JAKARTA: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Pertama, Edisi. 1994. Kamus system isyarat bahasa Indonesia(Dictionary of sign system of Indonesian). Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan(Department of Education and Culture).
Bibliography
Branson, Jan, Don Miller and I Gede Marsaja. 1996. Everyone here speaks sign language, too: a deaf village in Bali, Indonesia. In: Lucas, Ceil, ed. Multicultural aspects of sociolinguistics in deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Sign Languages in Asia: Indonesia (Data offered by Deaf informants in Indonesia; movies made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Notes
| Asia (general) | Asia (general) |
|---|---|
| East Asia | China | Japan | Mongolia | North Korea | South Korea |
| Southeast Asia | Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam |
| South Asia | Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |
| West Asia | Afghanistan |
| Areas and others | Hong Kong | Macau | Taiwan |
