Update: More Real Life Examples
- (in a classroom presentation) "...Plicker Pree monitor."
- A sign in Bandung: "Tambal Van."
- "Pesva."
--Submitted by vonEbenhaum - "(when a guy being told to spell "SOFMA")...Sierra Oscar Papa Mama Alpha."
--Submitted by Ndari
YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN A SUNDANESE AREA WHEN
You encounter a lot of these...
The actual word is "infaq," a Muslim term for a certain kind of donation.
Should've been "Puding," Bahasa for (surprise!) "pudding."
HOW ANAL-RETENTIVE ARE YOU...
...when it comes to punctuation?
Try the Eats, Shoots and Leaves Punctuation Game (requires Flash). Or the more serious Punctuation Test (click the Test menu on the left frame).
Read movies (in five minutes) in this book, 
BaM! is a humor book which questions and plays with various generalizations and social-conditionings in Indonesia. In English, the title's concept translates into something like "Laugh Yourself to Life!"
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Former professional bus-chaser, common office fodder, and an undisputed uncle with more than seven years experience, isman likes to question the world in the way few people bother to ask. Such as:
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