How to greet people in Indonesia?
As multicultural country, as well as
it languages, Indonesia has different greetings used in colloquial live, as I
would explain below.
1. Assalamualaikum, this is a muslim
daily greetings, you are strongly recommended use it at your fellow muslim no
matter what time it is. Use it while at time you knocking somebody's home-door
(for visiting somebody, etc).
2. Salam, this is meaningly same as
"good day" in English, you can use it disregarding the time you are
at, and you can address it to every person. Selamat pagi (good morning 00.00 AM
- 11.00 AM), Selamat Siang (good afternoon, 11.00 AM - 2.00 PM), Selamat Sore
(good afternoon, 2.00 PM - 6.00 PM, or until dark), and Selamat Malam (6.00 PM
- 00.00 AM other spesific variant of word 'salam')
As two points explained above, we can
conlude:
Assalamualaikum, Salam = used in any
time
Selamat Pagi = used at 00.00 AM -
11.00 AM
Selamat Siang = used at 11.00 AM -
2.00 PM
Selamat Sore = used at 2.00 PM - 6.00
PM
Selamat Malam = used at 6.00 PM -
00.00 AM
After we know how to greet, it is
important to know how to call the Indonesians with honorific title, this is
necessary as Indonesians way how to respect the elders, the youngers, the
teacher and someone respected in society. Let's see:
Bapak (literally father) used it to
address man at so-up-to-20-years-old man, Ibu (literally mother) used it to
address woman at so-up-to-20-years-old woman. Bapak/Ibu can be used to address
someone married or someone sets to work for live. If you are up to 20 years old and you meet
somebody, whose age below 20 years old, it's strongly recommended to call them
"ade" /aa--day/, and you would realized to be called
"bapak".
Custom of youth (whose age below 20
years old), are used to call their mate, which is elder slightly several years
by "kaka" (iterally: the elders) and call the younger by
"ade" (literally: the youngers). This custom is used in everyday by
youth in Indonesia and disregarding the gender of person addressed.
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