Why do urban Indonesian kids call their parents “Mami” and “Daddy”?

In modern urban Indonesian families, especially in Jakarta, kids often call their parents Daddy and Mami instead of the traditional Indonesian Ayah and Ibu or the Sundanese-Javanese Bapak and Mamak. The English-borrowed family words mark a specific class and generation: middle-class urban families, often with international school exposure, who weave English parental names into Indonesian sentence frames.

This clip catches the pattern in action: a child calls “Daddy” and “Mih” (a softened Mami) while showing off a soccer kick. The pain interjection aduh keeps the line locally-Indonesian even as the family words switch to English. The mix is everyday Jakarta speech, and anak Jaksel (South Jakarta kid) sketches play it for laughs.