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Because Indonesian is a language that is evolving quickly, it is good to know that KAMUS-online.com has stored phrases and expressions in it's online dictionary. On this page is a short overview of the most important facts.
The dictionary uses the modern day spelling, you have to replace the following to comply to the new spelling. oe > u
tj > c
dj > j
j > y
Some words are abbreviated in real life, but in this dictionary they are not. yg > yang
utk > untuk
dgn > dengan
Common writing language also contains lots of '2' behind a word, this means a copy of the exact word has been left out to make it shorter. malu2 > malu-malu
gado2 > gado-gado
pura2 > pura-pura
Some phrases will feature an abbreviation. The meaning of these abbreviations can be found below. Jav. > Javanese Kal. > Kalimantanese Sund. > Sundanese Pal. > Palembangese
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