Dinding itu dibuat dari bata.

In Indonesian, demonstratives such as ini and itu usually come after the noun they describe.

• dinding itu = that wall
• rumah ini = this house

This is different from English, where this/that comes before the noun.

Dibuat means made.

It comes from the root buat, which is related to make/do/create.
The prefix di- often marks the passive voice in Indonesian.

So:

• membuat = to make
• dibuat = is made / was made

In this sentence, dibuat shows that the wall is the thing receiving the action, not the thing doing it.

Indonesian often uses the passive when the result or object is more important than the person doing the action.

Here, the focus is on the wall, not on who made it. So dinding itu dibuat dari bata is very natural.

If you wanted an active version, it would need a subject that does the action, for example:

• Mereka membuat dinding itu dari bata. = They made that wall from brick.

Dari means from, and in this sentence it introduces the material something is made from.

So:

• dibuat dari bata = made from brick

This is very similar to English made from or made of, depending on context.

They express different ideas:

• dari = from, out of, made from a material
• oleh = by, marking the agent/doer

So:

• Dinding itu dibuat dari bata.
  = The wall is made from brick.

• Dinding itu dibuat oleh pekerja itu.
  = The wall was made by that worker.

You use dari for the material, and oleh for the person or thing that performs the action.

Indonesian often does not mark plural nouns unless it is necessary to do so.

So bata can mean:

• brick
• bricks
• brick as a material

In this sentence, bata is understood as the building material, so no plural marking is needed.

If you really wanted to emphasize plural bricks, you could say batu-bata or bata-bata, but that is not necessary here.

They are closely related, but batu bata is the fuller, more specific term for brick. In everyday usage, bata is often enough when the meaning is clear.

So:

• bata = brick
• batu bata = brick, often a more explicit form

In a sentence like this, bata sounds natural.

Yes. Indonesian verbs do not usually change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So dibuat can mean:

• is made
• was made
• sometimes even has been made

The time is understood from context or from time words such as:

• sekarang = now
• kemarin = yesterday
• dulu = in the past

Without extra context, dibuat is simply passive and tenseless.

Yes, and many learners will encounter that version too:

• Dinding itu dibuat dari bata.
• Dinding itu terbuat dari bata.

Both can mean That wall is made of brick.

A useful general difference is:

• dibuat dari focuses more on the process of being made
• terbuat dari often sounds more like a description of what something consists of

In many everyday cases, both are acceptable.

Usually, no, not for the meaning that wall.

If you want to say that wall, the normal structure is:

• dinding itu

Putting itu before the noun does not usually work the same way as English that wall.

So the natural sentence is:

• Dinding itu dibuat dari bata.

Indonesian does not have articles that work like English the and a/an.

Instead, definiteness is often shown through context or words like ini and itu.

So:

• dinding = wall / a wall
• dinding itu = that wall / the wall

Here, itu helps make the noun more specific.