Michelle Kohler is an experienced secondary teacher of Indonesian and now researcher at UniSA. She has worked as language advisor and was a member of the writing teams for the Standards for Languages Teaching. Her PhD study focuses on how classroom interaction contributes to intercultural teaching and learning.

Brent Bloffwitch is a SACE Officer Board of South Australia. His focus is on supporting senior school students and teachers to access quality learning and assessment programs in the languages and humanities learning areas. Brent has developed a series of online learning resources for the Language Learning Space (LLS) for Education Services Australia (ESA) and aligned these learning modules with the Australian Curriculum: Languages.

Penelope Coutas is an Indonesian language teacher from Perth, Western Australia who has taught across primary, secondary and tertiary. She is recognised nationally for her work and research in integrating digital technologies in the second language classroom.

Erin McMahon spent five years living in the Indonesian captial, Jakarta, before returning to Melbourne to become a language and humanities teachers. He has been working with the Victorian Indonesian Language Teachers' Association on various events and activities around the state to promote study of the language.

Kate Reitzenstein has worked as consultant for languages at the Association of Independent Schools of WA (AISWA) since 2014. She organises professional development activities and provides advice to schools and teachers on policy, curriculum and resources. Prior o this role, Kate worked as an Indonesian language teacher for 15 years.

Contemporary layout and design with photos to replace cartoons in response to market feedback

Activities that are a mix f interpretive comprehension and language analysis

Modular structure comprised of eight core and two optional chapters to allow for maximum flexibility

A comprehensive list of new vocabulary is included at the end of each chapter

End-of-chapter projects encourage students to reflect on cultural aspects they have learnt through language use.