Indonesian Dictionary 2.0 for Excalibur 1. Introduction This Indonesian Dictionary is composed for a freeware spell checker "Excalibur," so you should also install a copy of Excalibur into your Macintosh. If you don't have any copy of Excalibur, you can get it from its official home page: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~excalibr/excalibur.html). At the site, you can also find dictionaries of other languages or of technical terms. You can use and distribute this dictionary freely, however, please give your friends the original dictionary file with this "ReadMe" file as this dictionary is not for the public domain. And, when you use this dictionary, use with your own responsibility. I will never guarantee any of your damages which caused by using this dictionary. 2. About This Dictionary This dictionary includes over 20,000 words which used in Indonesian major mass media, like Kompas or Tempo, also with many Indonesianized English words like "modernisasi," "reformasi," "otoriter" and so on. Spelling of registered words is subjecting to modern Indonesian orthography except for some place names and person's names. However, number above is of registered words, not of actual words. In Indonesian language, to treat a hyphenated word (for example, "sayur-mayur") as a combination of two separate words is wrong because in many cases one of the separated words (here, "mayur") has no meaning (like "kith" from a phrase "kith and kin"). However, in this Indonesian dictionary, I separate each word as if these are two separate words with considering existence of option setting of Excalibur for hyphenated words. I should also tell you about limits of this dictionary. This dictionary includes few Indonesian slangs except for frequently used words such as "kamu," "aku" and so on. Further, it includes few place names and persons' names but famous figures such as "Megawati" and "Gus Dur" and some major place names. So too for Acronyms, it is simply because I always use this spell-checker with "Ignore all CAPS" option. Even though with such limits, I think my little Indonesian dictionary is useful for simple reports, personal letters and so on. I have ever used this dictionary for to write the official research reports for Kantor Sospol and the quarterly progress report for LIPI, when I have been in my fieldwork in Indonesia as a student of cultural anthropology. 3.History ver. 1.8.2; 05 Augustus 2003: Minor update. Only tens words are added. ver. 1.8.1; 30 November 2002: Minor update.Only tens words are added. ver. 1.8; 27 November 2000: New words are added to former version. ver. 1.7; 28 June 2000: In this version, wrong words (about 50 words) are corrected, and new words are added to former version. ver. 1.6; 12 May 2000: In this version, wrong words are corrected, and almost 4000 "-nya" words added for convenience. ver. 1.3; 18 March 2000: In this version, wrong words are corrected, and some 2000 words added. ver. 1.0; 01 December 1999: First release. 4.About The Author Masanori Kaneko masanori@gf7.so-net.ne.jp