Editing Indonesian language (section)

=== Loan words of Dutch origin ===
{{see also|List of Dutch loanwords in Indonesian}}
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Glodok wijk te Djakarta TMnr 10014951.jpg|thumb|alt=Crowd at a busy street intersection. There are horse-drawn carriages in the foreground while a three-story building (with the sign "Kam Leng") and a single-story building (with the sign "Chunghua Bioscoop") stand in the background on adjacent corners of the intersection.|The Indonesian word of {{lang|id|bioskop}} is derived from [[Dutch language|Dutch]] {{lang|nl|bioscoop}} ([[movie theater]]).]]

The former colonial power, the [[Netherlands]], left a sizeable amount of vocabulary that can be seen in words such as {{lang|id|polisi}} (from {{lang|nl|politie}} = police), {{lang|id|kualitas}} (from {{lang|nl|kwaliteit}} = quality), {{lang|id|aktual}} (from {{lang|nl|actueel}} = current), {{lang|id|rokok}} (from {{lang|nl|roken}} = smoking cigarettes), {{lang|id|korupsi}} (from {{lang|nl|corruptie}} = corruption), {{lang|id|kantor}} (from {{lang|nl|kantoor}} = office), {{lang|id|resleting}} (from {{lang|nl|ritssluiting}} = zipper), {{lang|id|pelopor}} (from {{lang|nl|voorloper}} = frontrunner), {{lang|id|persneling}} (from {{lang|nl|versnelling}} = transmission gear), {{lang|id|setrum}} (from {{lang|nl|stroom}} = electricity current), {{lang|id|maskapai}} (from {{lang|nl|maatschappij}} = company), {{lang|id|apotek}} (from {{lang|nl|apotheek}} = pharmacy), {{lang|id|handuk}} (from {{lang|nl|handdoek}} = towel), {{lang|id|setrika}} (from {{lang|nl|strijkijzer}} = clothes iron), {{lang|id|bioskop}} (from {{lang|nl|bioscoop}} = [[movie theater]]), {{lang|id|spanduk}} (from {{lang|nl|spandoeken}} = banner), {{lang|id|korsleting}} (from {{lang|nl|kortsluiting}} = short circuit), {{lang|id|om}} (from {{lang|nl|oom}} = uncle), {{lang|id|tante}} (from {{lang|nl|tante}} = aunt), {{lang|id|traktir}} (from {{lang|nl|trakteer}} = treat) and {{lang|id|gratis}} (from {{lang|nl|gratis}} = free). These [[Dutch language|Dutch]] loanwords, and many other non-Ibero-Romance, European language loanwords that came via Dutch, cover all aspects of life. Some Dutch loanwords, having clusters of several consonants, pose difficulties to speakers of Indonesian. This problem is usually solved by insertion of the [[schwa]]. For example, Dutch {{lang|nl|schroef}} {{IPA|[ˈsxruf]}} > {{lang|id|sekrup}} {{IPA|[səˈkrup]}} (screw (n.)). One scholar argues that 25% of Indonesian words are inspired by the Dutch language.<ref name="mai">{{Cite journal|url=http://repositories.cdlib.org/ies/050208/|title=A Hidden Language – Dutch in Indonesia|author=Hendrik M. Maier|date=8 February 2005|journal=Institute of European Studies|page=17|access-date=26 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010002102/http://repositories.cdlib.org/ies/050208/|archive-date=10 October 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

Before the standardization of the language, many Indonesian words follow standard Dutch alphabet and pronunciation such as "oe" for vowel "u" or "dj" for consonant "j" [dʒ]. As a result, Malay words are written with that orthography such as: {{lang|ms|passer}} for the word {{lang|id|Pasar}} or {{lang|ms|djalan}} for the word {{lang|id|jalan}}, older Indonesian generation tend to have their name written in such order as well.