Bahasa Indonesia Learning
Structured practical language learning.
Learn Bahasa. Discover Lombok.
SAPA
LOMBOK
Learn Bahasa Indonesia through Sasak Culture and Community
An immersive language and cultural learning experience connecting Australian learners with Lombok's students, educators, communities, stories and everyday life.
Learn
Practise Bahasa Indonesia through real conversations and everyday situations.
Connect
Learn alongside Indonesian university students and local communities.
Experience
Understand Sasak culture, storytelling, traditions and everyday life.
Create
Co-create learning resources that can be shared with future learners.
Why SAPA
Australia’s travel to Indonesia is already large; learning capability has not fully followed.
1.78M
Australian short-term trips to Indonesia in 2025–26
14%
of all Australian overseas trips
86.2%
holiday reason
SAPA turns a high-volume travel corridor into a structured opportunity for Indonesian language use, cultural understanding and people-to-people engagement.
Sources: ABS, Overseas Arrivals and Departures 2025–26; DFAT AII Guidelines 2026–27.
Learn beyond the classroom
Bahasa Indonesia in Real Life
SAPA Lombok helps Australian learners move beyond classroom vocabulary and use Bahasa Indonesia in meaningful situations — introducing themselves, asking questions, ordering food, asking for directions and joining conversations with Indonesian students and community members.
Student Exchange
Learn and communicate with Indonesian university students.
Language Missions
Complete practical Bahasa Indonesia challenges in real settings.
Community Conversations
Use Bahasa Indonesia with educators, cultural practitioners and community members.
8-day Lombok program
Lombok Becomes the Classroom
An intensive language and intercultural learning program that combines structured Bahasa Indonesia learning with university and community-based activities. Through place-based, community-based language learning, every day turns new words into real conversations.
- Bahasa Indonesia classes
- Indonesian student peer exchange
- Practical language missions
- Sasak storytelling
- Community visits
- Local cultural learning
- Collaborative workshops
- Living Language Kit co-design
Sasak culture
Discover Indonesia through Lombok
Bahasa Indonesia is the main language of SAPA Lombok. Sasak culture and selected local expressions provide a regional context for understanding Indonesia's cultural and linguistic diversity — shared by community members as contemporary learning partners.
StoriesTraditionsCommunity lifeArts and cultural practicesSelected Sasak expressionsLocal knowledge
Open-access resources
SAPA Lombok Living Language Kit
Australian and Indonesian participants will help create reusable, open-access learning resources inspired by their experiences in Lombok — for learners, educators and community organisations.
Conversation Cards
Practical Language Missions
Culture & Story Cards
Short Audio and Video Lessons
Facilitator Guide
Digital Learning Resources
Partners
Learning Together in Lombok
Universitas Hamzanwadi
Academic and Bahasa Indonesia learning partner
Yayasan Emas Mirah
Community, language and Sasak cultural engagement partner
Komunitas Rabu Langit
Community literacy and storytelling partner
Project Leads
ZZ
Dr Zamzami Zainuddin (Flinders University)
HW
Hamzani Wathoni (Yayasan Emas Mirah)
MA
Dr Muhammad Ali (Universitas Hamzanwadi)
FJ
Fatih Kudus Jaelani (Komunitas Rabu Langit)