About
Ridha H,My
friends retold many fairy tales, story
of kids in English from Indonesia as assignment during the lecturer. This
blog of folktales from Indonesian dedicated and credited to all my friends
during my study. Many children stories are occur from around the world,
including my country, Indonesia. My blog the story of kids in English provided folklore
legends and myths around place of Indonesia. There are collections of kid
stories from island of Bali, Java, Sumatra, Borneo (Kalimantan), Celebes
(Sulawesi), Flores-Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTT) or Western Lesser Sundas , Nusa
Tenggara Timur (NTB) or East Lesser Sundas and another part of Indonesia.
Bali
as the famous island in Indonesia has many myths and legends in the Balinese
society. There are some fairy tales, story of kids in English from Javanese in
this blog, including folk tales for children from East Java (Jawa Timur),
Central Java (Jawa Tengah), West Java (Jawa Barat), and fairy tales from
Jakarta. In Sumatra Island, there are also legends & Myths, including fairy
tales and folk tales from Minangkabau or West Sumatra (Padang). This folk tales
of Minangkabau is the famous one from West Sumatra, which will tell about the
origin about the terms of Minangkabau and Malin Kundang. Another story of kids
from Indonesia is comes from Kalimantan or Borneo Island is The Crocodiles AndThe Dayaks.
These folk
lore stories told us about the myths and legends in order to storytelling for
the kids or the children particularly during their bedtime. I used the words fairy tales, folk tales, fables,
or folklore since those words definition are having a similar meaning in terms
of story about legends and myths in our past time in this blog of story of kids
in English from Indonesia. These Indonesian fairy tales
are in form of English language for English stories for kids, since the folk
tales itself retold in Indonesian.
As my
process in building this blog about English stories for kids, hopefully I can
provided more story of folktales from Indonesia in another Island, such as
Papua Nugini or Irian Jaya, Ambon (Moluccas), Madura, or any part of island
Indonesia. Presently, the blog of Indonesian fairy tales stories are consist of
folk lore of Indonesia from west and central part of Indonesia.
Some of
these fairy tales of Indonesia are myths and legends of Indonesia retold for
the children by one generation to generation. These mythology and legends are
having the place where this story comes from. Many children story books explain
many folktales from around the
world for children, but in this blog of Indonesian fairy tales explain kids
short stories free for you. These free stories for kids credited to my friends
as the collection or compiling the retold story for our study. I think, we can
show the children stories with moral by telling them a suitable fairy tales of
worlds as bedtime stories.
