In my last column about the body, I mentioned that 'the mind', was a word difficult to translate into Indonesian. I decided I had to challenge myself on this, so I have been looking at Indonesian words around 'the mind', 'to think', 'thought', 'consciousness' and 'to know'.

English has a relatively rich vocabulary of words in this constellation. Some synonyms for 'the mind' given in the thesaurus are intelligence, intellect, understanding, brain, reason and w