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Indonesian alphabet and characters

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Lower-case characters:

Upper-case characters

Indonesian grammar rules

Nouns

Indonesian nouns are words used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or abstract ideas, and are divided into personal and non-personal, countable and uncountable, plural formations, etc. Nouns are usually the most important part of vocabulary as they can consist simply of roots, other nouns are morphologically complex. The structure of the Nouns in Indonesian has a logical pattern.

Verbs

Indonesian formatting rules

Date formats

Short date format	dd-mm-‘yy
	e.g. 17-03-’16
Long date format	d mmmm yyyy
	e.g. 17 Maret 2016

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 17,50
Thousand separator	. (period)
	e.g. 2.000, not 2000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using full stop and comma
	e.g. 1.526,55 , not 1,526,55
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 39 ˚C, not 39˚C; Exception: 10%, not 10 %
Percentage	there is no space between number and the % symbol
Indonesian currency name	Rupiah
Currency symbol	Rp
Currency symbol position	located before the number
	e.g. Rp 1.000

Indonesian capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

The first word in every sentence.
The first word of each sentence inside the speech marks.
The first letter in the word and phrase that relates to religion, scriptures, and God, including pronouns for God.
The first letter of the name of the honorary title, ancestry, and religious leaders who followed the person’s name.
The first letter of the name of the honorary title, ancestry, and religious leaders who did not follow the person’s name.
Proper nouns – people’s names, agency names, name of the place, etc. used as a substitute for the name of a specific person.
The first letter of the name of the office or agency name that refers to the completed form.
Person names.
Capital letters are used as the first letter stands for the name of the person who is used as the name of the type or measurement unit.
The first letter of the name, nation, and language.
The first letter of the year, month, day, and feast.
The first letter of the name elements of the historical events.
Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.).
The first letter of all elements of the country’s official name, official institutions, constitutional institutions, agencies, and the name of the official document.
The first letter in the word, such as captions, notes, and for example, which is preceded by a complete statement and is followed by the exposure associated with the complete statement.
Headings/titles: only the first word is capitalised unless a proper noun is featured.
Column and row headings should start with a capital letter and usually have no punctuation marks at the end. When table items are complete sentences, each of them starts with a capital letter and ends with a period.
If the localisable item is a phrase, capitalise only the first word. Except in trademarks (e.g., Adobe Acrobat) where every word should be capitalised.

Should NOT be capitalised

The first letters of positions and ranks that do not refer to the person’s name, agency name, or the name of a particular place.
Capital letters are not used as the first letter as the de, van and der (in the name of the Netherlands), von (the German name), or da (in the name of Portugal).
In the name of a specific person, the capital letters are not used to write the first letter of the word son or daughter.
Capital letters are not used as the first letter of the name of the person who is used as the name of the type or size unit. (e.g. mesin diesel,10 volt5, ampere)
The first letter of the name of the nation, tribe, and language used as the basic form of the word derivative.
The first letter of the historical events that are not used as the name.
After a colon the sentence should continue with a lower case.

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