have started to offer courses that emphasise the teaching of the language to non-Indonesians. In addition to national universities, private institutions have also started to offer courses, like the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation and the . As early as 1988, teachers of the language have expressed the importance of a standardized (also called BIPA, literally Indonesian Language for Foreign Speaker) materials (mostly books), and this need became more evident during the 4th International Congress on the Teaching of Indonesian to Speakers of Other Languages held in 2001. Since 2013, the Indonesian embassy in the Philippines has given basic Indonesian language courses to 16 batches of Filipino students, as well as training to members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In an interview, Department of Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the country's government should promote Indonesian or Malay, which are related to Filipino. Thus, the possibility of offering it as an optional subject in public schools is being studied. The Indonesian embassy in Washington, D.C., United States, also began offering free Indonesian language courses at the beginner and intermediate level. Words Numbers Cardinal Ordinal Days and months Days Months Common phrases Example The following texts are excerpts from the official translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Indonesian and Malaysian Malay, along with the original declaration in English. See also Austronesian languages Indonesian Sign Language Bahasa, for other languages referred to as Language families and languages Malay language Demographics of Indonesia Indonesian slang language Indonesian abbreviated words Comparison of Standard Malay and Indonesian List of English words of Indonesian origin List of loanwords in Indonesian Okkots References External links How many people speak Indonesian? Indonesian Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix) KBBI Daring (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia dalam jaringan) (online version of the Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, by the Language and Book Development Agency, in Indonesian only) babla.co.id English-Indonesian dictionary from bab.la, a language learning portal English-Indonesian dictionaries Download Kamus 2.0.4 download Indonesian English dictionary - IndoDic Download Kamus Inggris Indonesia - IndoDic Agglutinative languages Languages of Indonesia Languages of East Timor Standard languages Subject–verb–object languages Articles containing video clips Languages of the Netherlands Malayic languages