Undertake any course in the Indonesian language and no doubt there will be an introduction to the process of agreeing on a price for goods at an Indonesian market.
Unfortunately, even (professional?) writers of Indonesian course material make the mistake of referring to this process as 'bartering'.
So here is a brief guide:
If you are in an Indonesian market and you wish to negotiate how many of your home-grown bananas you are willing to hand over to the chicken man for one of his chooks, then you are 'bartering'.
If you are in the more likely situation of determining how much cash money you are willing to pay for said chicken, then you are not bartering; you are 'bargaining'.
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