VK3, what has the Dutch hegemony over the East Indies have to do with Arab culture in Indonesia, or Balibo? Like many colonial powers, the Dutch brought some good things and some bad things to Indonesia. For the record, and I'm sure you know this, Timor was a Portuguese holding. The Indonesians saw an opportunity for colonisation themselves after grabbing West Papua (also illegally).

@Viking:

LOL, zapata said there are 293 Arabic loanwords in Indonesian. Meanwhile, according to Oxford English Dictionary, there are 250 Arabic loanwords in English. Using your theory, that means England is as Arabicised as Indonesia.

@zapata:

LOL, of course we can realise that there was never any genocide in East Timor under Indonesian rule since that is statistically impossible, as shown by the censuses.

Sukarno taught: we must always learn from history. The chaos of the 1950s showed that western-style democracy is unfit for Indonesia. Thankfully, strong Sukarno was there to save Indonesia from early destruction caused by indecent application style of western-style type of government.

BTW, if you are Indonesian, you seem to be poorly informed about the country. No wonder your posts lack any authority and your incorrect statements easily demolished and debunked.

PTBI,

You can say that my posts lack of authority and easily debunked. I wouldn't mind. But at the end, readers will perhaps sense it that i am trying to be careful in making argument.

As for Parliamentary Democracy, i disagree with you. You seem to ignore the politik aliran factor which has been crucial in hightening tension in the Indonesian politics regardless what kind of governmental system Indonesia has. This started long before Indonesia merdeka...even in zaman pergerakan.

My lesson: please learn from history carefully and history is not black and white.

There are more likely 1000 words of Arabic origin (possibly themselves loanwords from Persian) in Bahasa Indonesia. One thousand of a total of 100,000 words is rather more significant than the handful of Arabic words (most of which are proper names, in any case, like names for stars) in the 600,000-strong English vocabulary.