Asia Education Foundation

Places in Indonesia

Upper Primary Unit

Studies of Asia Learning Emphases

Developing concepts of Asia

Understanding contributions made by the peoples of Asia to the world

Specific Indonesia focus:

Acquire knowledge about the diversity of Indonesia's regions, people and places.

Respond personally to visual and written texts about Indonesian regions.

Students explore the people, places and customs of the diverse regions of Indonesia, and write a personal response in poetry form about one particular region.

Images of Indonesia
Regions of Indonesia
A Region of Indonesia: search engine activity
Region Poem: search engine activity
Indonesia Overview

Teaching and Learning Activities

Images of Indonesia

Students view images and read about the different regions of Indonesia on the following websites:

Students record the places visited on a blank map of Indonesia. Print out one for each student in the class.

Students choose a favourite photo to share with the class and discuss why they would want to research that region.

Regions of Indonesia

Students read the information about Indonesia's seven tourism development regions on:

Students complete the questions on the first page of the Places in Indonesia Activity Sheet and share their findings with the class.

Students join with other students wishing to study the same region in greater detail.

A Region of Indonesia: search engine activity

Explain to students that they will now be working in small region-based groups. Students navigate their way through the following websites to gather information about their chosen region.

This site offers stimulating and interesting information, such as places of interest, traditional songs that can be played online, a calendar of current events, photos and drawings of traditional costumes and houses from the provinces and special territories of Indonesia.

This site explores the Indonesian National Parks network.

Students complete the activities on the second part of the Places in Indonesia Activity Sheet, 'My Region of Indonesia'.

Region Poem: search engine activity

Students use the following web address to search for images of a particular region:

Students key in the names of major islands, large cities and popular tourist destinations, eg Sumatra, Kalimantan, Yogyakarta, Lombok. (Please note: students need to add 'and Indonesia' when searching for Java and Flores.)

Students record their responses to the images and information about their region, listing feelings, colours, key words and phrases. These will form the basis of each student's poem.

Students write and illustrate their poems and present them to the class.

Indonesia Overview

Students use the information from:

to demonstrate a deeper understanding of their region by:

  1. Building a model of a regional house

    Recyclable materials such as cereal boxes, cardboard tubes, twigs, paddlepop sticks and bark are suitable for this activity. The completed models can be displayed in the classroom with the Places in Indonesia Activity Sheet detailing students' research about the region.

  2. Creating a class map of Indonesia

    You will need:

    • Crepe paper (blue, yellow, brown and green)
    • PVA glue
    • A large class map of Indonesia.

    Students make small balls of crumpled crepe paper and glue then onto the map using the brown for mountains, green for hillsides, yellow for coastal regions and blue for the seas and lakes.

    Students label their region and add the names of major cities, as well as other significant natural features such as oceans or National Parks.

    Students add drawings of their region's natural features, animals, significant structures and costumes, etc, which the students have redrawn from images found on the above websites.

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