In Reply to: Some further background posted by lisss on Monday, 26. October 2009 at 12:09 Bali Time:
berbulu (or bulu for short) means hairy.
The cultural thing I find amazing is how Indonesians freely comment on tourist's bodies, including their size, hairyness, colour, whatever. Certainly way past the point of rudeness in most western cultures. Usually in a language they think the tourist doesn't understand, but not always.
Must be cultural we say. However, the Indonesians I know would be very offended if I made similar comments about their appearance, they are pretty much the same when it comes to vanity, sensitivity about appearance etc.