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Indonesian cuisine puts forward the vast variety of people that live on the 6,000 populated islands that make up Indonesia. There is not a single Indonesian cuisine, but rather, a diversity of regional cuisines influenced by local Indonesian culture and foreign influences.
Indonesian usually eats three meals in a day, with lunch as the primary, heaviest meal. Breakfast could be as light as a cup of coffee, or a plateful of ‘nasi goreng’or fried rice. Lunch is the heaviest meal, consisting of a plate of steam rice, accompanied by a number of usual consistencies of  meat or fish, a vegetable dish, and a soup. Dinner is a smaller part of lunch.

Rice as main food

Rice is the basic food for most of Asians.But it is more than that for Indonesian - it is the basis of life itself. One of the most adorable goddesses in Bali and certainly the most popular one ‘Devi Sri - the goddess of rice’. This becomes a part of rituals of rice, from planting to harvesting which is important part of an Indonesian life. Different types of rice contributing their meal can be Steamed rice or Fried rice.Different types of rice contributing their meal can be Steamed rice or Fried rice. One of the best parts is that rice is very affordable and you don't need to look for payday loans to afford it.

Soups

‘Bakso’ - chicken or beef broth, usually accompanied by various kinds of spices. It usually has either fresh fish balls or meat balls.

Bubur ayam (Chicken porridge)-Thick rice porridge with chicken pieces, served with cah-weh (a Chinese bread).

Desserts

The primary desserts in Bali as well as in the rest of Indonesia is fruit, which is available in more varieties. One of the favorite desserts is ‘pisang goreng’ or ‘fried banana’ fritter. Another traditional sweet is tape (ketan or ubi) or fermented sticky rice or cassava. It’s usually made up by steaming the sticky rice or boiling the cassava, pouring ragi or yeast powder to help the process of fermentation

Beverages

• Cendol-Its jello-like consistency, green pieces of tapioka, mixed with water and santan or coconut milk, and sweetened by a liquified gula jawa or brown sugar.
• Es campur (Mixed drink) - It’s similar to cendol, but it contains a variety of things. In range of different kinds of tapioka products, sometimes people prefer different kinds of fruits like avocado, nangka or jackfruit, etc.
• Air kelapa muda (fresh coconut juice).
• Fruit juice.
• Brem that’s the Rice wine.

Additionally, there are variants of non-alcoholic beverages which are used by Indonesian for use.

Origin of the Bahasa Malayu language

Many hypotheses are there as where the Malay language originated. One of the reason is that it came from Sumatra Island. The oldest written documents in Malayu, dated from the end of the 7th century AD, which were found on Bangka Islan, off the southeastern coast of Sumatra and in Palembang in southern Sumatra ‘Malayu’ was the name of an old kingdom located in Jambi province in eastern Sumatra. It was known in ancient Chinese scripting as ‘Mo-lo-yo’ and mentioned in the Nagarakertagama, an old Javanese epic written in 1365, as one of the ‘tributary states’ of the Majapahit kingdom in eastern Java.

History of bahasa languages

Old Malay is unintelligible to a speaker of modern Malay. It was heavily influenced by Sanskrit, language of Hinduism and Buddhism. The fastest known inscription in the Old Malay language was found in Sumatra, written in Pal lava variant of Grantha script and dates back to 7th century - known as Kedukan Bukit Inscription. This was discovered by the Dutchman M. Batten burg on 29 November 1920, at Kedukan Bukit, South Sumatra, on the banks of the River Tatung, a tributary of the River Musi It is a small stone of 45 by 80 cm.

Classification with related languages

Bahasa language is classified with Austronesian family of languages which includes languages from South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia. Malagasy, a language spoken in Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, is also a member of this linguistic family. Malayo-Polynesian language is one of the members of this family, which includes the Languages of the Philippines and Malagasy, which is further subdivided into Hesperonesian languages and Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian language. Malay’s closest language scripting influences include Javanese, Acehnese, Chamorro and and Palauan.

History of writing Malayu language

In 1959, Indonesia and Malaysia signed an agreement contract to standardize the Malay spelling system of both countries This was necessary on behalf of   Indonesia's Romanized writing because of the influences by the Dutch whereas Malaysia, remain as  the British system. They named this new unified system ‘Melindo’, an acronym for Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia.