Indonesiaphileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Indonesia +‎ -phile.

名詞

Indonesiaphile (plural Indonesiaphiles)

1. (rare) Someone who loves Indonesia (i.e. its culture, cuisine, religion, history or people).

   Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:xenophile

   • 1977 September 15, F. Claridge, “Letters to the editor: Indonesia and relations with Australia”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 43,602, Syndey: John Fairfax and Sons Ltd, page 6:

     Unlike Mr [Peter] Hastings, many of us old Indonesia-philes now feel that a strong Australian stand on Timor is more beneficial for long-term, respectful Australia-Indonesia relations than weakly fawning over any action Indonesia might fancy indulging in.

   • 1994, Mely G. Tan, “Indonesian Odyssey: Jakarta, Cornell, Berkeley, Jakarta” (chapter 7), in Kathryn P. Meadow Orlans, Ruth A. Wallace, editors, Gender and the Academic Experience: Berkeley Women Sociologists, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 90:

     I was the only Indonesian student in the sociology department. Neither faculty members nor students were interested in Indonesia as an area of study, completely different from the situation at Cornell, where I had been welcomed by the sizable group of Indonesiaphiles.

   • 2025 October 3, Lisa Grainger, “Exploring Indonesia’s coastline in a pair of handmade boats”, in The Times‎, archived from the original on 30 November 2025:

     Silolona and Si Datu Bua are aptly named: the former after a beloved local god; the latter meaning “beloved princess”. In the yachting world the pair are celebrities. Known as two of the most beautiful phinisis ever made, they were hand-hewn from ironwood and teak, and made to measure for their American-born, Indonesiaphile owner, Patti Seery, over 20 years ago.

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