Last updated on January 25, 2024
Contributed and posted by ‘The Indonesian Way’, a textbook for the Indonesian language by George Quinn and Uli Kozok.
A guling is a cylindrical pillow or bolster. It is a normal component of bedding in Indonesia. You embrace it with your arms and legs as you sleep. Perhaps that’s why, although the term is, probably politically incorrect, it is sometimes called a “Dutch wife” in English.
