Hungarian also has very few cognates with English. Aside from words that English got from Hungarian, like paprika, and words like internet and pizza and email, there's almost nothing recognisable. I found that making up little stories can help, you just have to make up longer stories. For example *hunts down an indonesian word (this is hard since i don't know how any of this is pronounced* -- tembang -> them bang -> bunch of toddlers trying to make a song.) silly story, nothing to do with real origin of the word, but silly enough that you might remember it easier. :)

You also may find these lists helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Indonesian_origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_loan_words_in_Indonesian