How We Write It

Written Bahasa Indonesia is pretty much just how we sound it. Vowels are written just the way they sound. Much like Malay, the root of Bahasa Indonesia. It's much easier for children to write Indonesian words because they can write it just the way they sound. Like the word "minum"(mee-noom:drink), or "makan"(mu-kun:eat). To teach Indonesian students to write, we teacher just sound the word slowly and they already know how to write it.
When I said my name, they wrote "Ms. Sonya"

So when our expat adviser mentioned his name, "Mr. Craig",

they wrote, "Ms. Tekrek".