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 Ethnologue, 16th Edition)
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
- Indonesian Association for the Welfare of the Deaf (IAWD) (WFD member; established in 1981. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.))
- 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
Marsaja , I. Gede 2008. Desa Kolok. A deaf village and its sign language in Bali, Indonesia : Ishara Press.
World Federation of the Deaf and Swedish National Association of the Deaf. 2008. Global Survey Report. WFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFD RSA/P). Global Education Pre-Planning Project on the Human Rights of Deaf People. World Federation of the Deaf. Finland.
Connie de Vos. 2007. Kata Kolok: A Village-based Sign Language of Northern Bali. International Symposium On The Languages Of Java 15th - 17th August 2007, Semarang, Java, Indonesia.
Marsaja, I Gede and Ketut Kanta 2005. Kata Kolok: An introduction to a deaf village in Bali and its sign language. Talk given at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, April 2005
Nakata, Hideo. 2005. Joint Lesson Studies with Japanese and Indonesian Special School Teachers ： International Educational Exchange Project for a New Century. University of Tsukuba, Center for Research on International Cooperation in Educational Development.
Nakayama, Sinichiro. 2004. Make a Comparison of Word Order between Sign Language and Language for writing : From study about sign language used in Asia and Africa. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 52(2004.06):22-26. [Including information of [ Ghana, Zambia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand ]
Kobayashi, Masayuki. 2001. Deaf in Asia(10):Indonesia. In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 42(2001.12):66-69.
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. 39-57.
Gunawan, Imas A. R. 1996. Kamus Umum Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia. Lembaga Komunikasi Total Indonesia.
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)
Deaf Nippon: Supporting activities by Deaf Japanese for the Deaf in developing countries "Indonesia" (webpage in Japanese)
Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Indonesia
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 |
