Who transcribes Indonesian content?
Indonesian broadcasters, podcasters, and digital media teams transcribe interviews and shows for editing, captions, and articles, while market researchers and academics working on Southeast Asia's largest economy transcribe focus groups and field recordings. NGOs, government agencies, and companies expanding into Indonesia also transcribe meetings, hearings, and training content.
Indonesian dialects and accents
Indonesian is a standardized language based on Riau Malay, so formal speech is fairly uniform across the country, but accents are shaped by speakers' regional first languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese. Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian (bahasa gaul) also differs noticeably from formal Indonesian in vocabulary and word forms, and Indonesian is distinct from the closely related Malaysian Malay.
Where Indonesian is spoken
Indonesian is spoken in Indonesia, Australia, East Timor, and parts of the Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Suriname.
