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This personal project aims to present a compherensive and detailed information for loanwords in Indonesian. It began in the beginning of May, the time I started doing my research on Peranakan language spoken by Chinese descendants in Java. At the time being, I am collecting words originated from languages in China (e.g. Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese) which are now listed in Kamus besar bahasa Indonesia (A comprehensive dictionary of Indonesian) either as loanwords or Indonesian words without mentioning the source language.

There are sites for loanwords in Indonesian, such as Russell Jones' loan-words in Indonesian and Malay and World Loanword Database's Indonesian vocabulary. Each site has its own good points and word entries. However, there are some words, such as pisau 'knife' (Chinese: 匕首 bĭ shŏu), which cannot be found on those sites. My target is to finish collecting loanwords from Chinese languages as many as possible. Afterwards words originated from other languages, such as Dutch, Arabic, and Sanskrit, will be added.

1. General
• Russell Jones' loan-words in Indonesian and Malay
• World Loanword Database's Indonesian vocabulary
• Haspelmath, Martin and Uri Tadmor (eds.) (2009) Loanwords in the world's languages: a comparative handbook, 686-716. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
2. Chinese languages
• Campbell, Rev. W. (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular. Taiwan: Ho Tai Tong.
• Douglas, Rev. Carstairs (1899) Chinese-English dictionary (Amoy vernacular). London: Presbyterian Church of England.
• Douglas, C. and Thomas Barcley (1990) Chinese-English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, with the principal variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew dialects. Supplement to dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy. Taipei: SMC Pub.
• Giles, H. A. (1912) Chinese-English dictionary. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh.
• Lai, Esther Yuk Wah (2006) Learning Cantonese Pronunciation in IPA. Hong Kong: ET Business College.
• Li, Yu Kai [李毓愷] (ed.) (1955) 印尼中華大辭典 = Kamus baharu bahasa Indonesia-Tionghoa. Djakarta: Yecheng Guomin Shuju [椰城國民書局].
• Lin, Huan Wen [林煥文] and Bao, Si Jing [包思井] (1959) 簡明馬華辭典 = Kamus Mĕlayu-Tionghoa. Singapore: Shanghai Shuju Youxiangongsi [上海書局有限公司].
• Murakami, Yoshihide (2007) 東方台湾語辞典. Tokyo: Toho Shoten.
3. Sanskrit
• Beg, M.A.J. (1981) Indo-Sanskrit loan-words in Malay. Kuala Lumpur: National University of Malaysia.
• Gonda, J. (1973) Sanskrit in Indonesia. New Delhi.
• Hamilton, A.W. (1919) Hindustani, Tamil, Sanskrit and other loan-words in Malay. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Straits Branch), 29-38.
• Mitra, S. Chandra (1967) Century dictionary (Bengali to English). Calcutta.
4. Arabic
• Beg, M.A.J. (1983) Arabic loan-words in Malay. Kuala Lumpur: National University of Malaysia.
• Jones, Russell (1978) Arabic loan-words in Indonesian: a check-list of words of Arabic and Persian origin in Bahasa Indonesia and traditional Malay, in the reformed spelling. London: The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
• Wehr, Hans (1979) A dictionary of modern written Arabic (Arabic-English). Fourth edition. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
5. European languages
• Grijns, C.D. et al. (1983) European loan-words in Indonesian: a check-list of words from European origin in bahasa Indonesia and traditional Malay. Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.