This study tries to collect colloquial Indonesian corpus, in order to determine Indonesian speakers' choice of possessive predicates in the low variety, by conducting a storytelling survey in 2011. (Lihat predikat kata kerja kepemilikan dalam bahasa Indonesia)

The storytelling survey was conducted in Malang in August 2011 and in Tokyo in September and October 2011. The consultants were from different backgrounds (as for age, place of birth, place of growing up, and mother tongue). All had received a high school-level or university-level education. All could be classified as belonging to the middle class socially.

The consultants are divided into two groups, i.e. the 'speaking' and 'writing' groups, mainly based on the free choice given to each consultant. The percentages of male and female consultants in the 'speaking' group are 23.08% and 76.92% respectively, while the percentages of male and female consultants in the 'writing' group are 54.55% and 45.45% respectively.

A story which contains many possessive verbal predicates is prepared to gather the corpus (spoken and written data) in this survey. During the process of making a part of the story I referred to the story script of Frog, Where Are You? by Mercer Mayer on page 5 of the Narrative Story Retell Reference Database.

The spoken data consist of thirteen monologues recorded in Malang and Tokyo between August and October 2011. They were recorded in the consultants' houses, a place of work (an office), or in public places, such as a school canteen and a church. At all recordings, the consultants were first requested to consent to be recorded. During the storytelling task, they were informed when they were being recorded. The spoken data, containing 14,082 words in total, were relatively spontaneous monologues mostly with considerable background noise. Fillers, ellipsis, slips of the tongue, repetition, and obscuring of sentence boundaries are all common features of the spoken data.

The written data consist of eleven word files typed by the consultants in Malang and Tokyo between August and October 2011. The data contain 8,225 words. Unlike the spoken data, sentences in the written data are generally well-formed.