Over the police station loud speaker the message rings out clearly.

"Andy Go To School, telephone call for Andy Go To School."

No sooner has it finished and Andy Go to School, a police officer from Central Java, is on the phone to the ABC explaining the origins of his name that he was teased about at school but has with time grown to love and embrace.

"At school some kids called me Andy Go To Hell, " he says.

"I was also teased about my English during lessons, I got bad grades and my teacher teased me."

"She said, 'why do you have such bad grades when your name is go to school?'"

Andy Go to School is a name with history.

Andy says his father, Bulkin, used to work restoring the Borobudur temple in central Java, which is a popular tourist destination.

There, his father was exposed to English-speaking tourists and on the first of January, 1979, his wife gave birth to their first child, a boy.

Bulkin decided to name his first son Happy New Year — a phrase he'd encountered during his work at the temple.

"He often met with foreign tourists," Andy says of his father.

"And the archaeologists at the temple were from overseas, the Netherlands or somewhere, and so that was his inspiration to call his first son English words."

They called him Happy for short and he grew up normally but he didn't enjoy school and would often run away so he did not have to attend.

In 1986, when the boy was seven, Bulkin and his wife had their second child who they decided to call Andy Go To School in the hope he would grow up to be a diligent student, unlike his brother.

Andy Go To School holds his son Virgenio Silvero Goes to Paradise. ( Supplied )

"My Dad told me that because my brother often didn't go to school he hoped I wouldn't turn out like him," Andy says.

"So he named me Andy Go To School so I would go to school diligently."

But Andy says while he did go to school, he was a very, very naughty and was always causing trouble.

By the early 1990s another brother was born. This time his father decided to call the child Rudi A Good Boy, in the hope the child would be well behaved.

Indeed, Rudi did grow to be a good boy and is now a member of the Indonesian armed forces.

"I used to think my name was just Andy, and go to school I thought were Javanese words which mean carrying rice," Andy says.

"Andy carrying rice, I didn't even know what that meant until I went to high school and learnt some English words."

Andy is now married with children of his own. And he's embraced the family tradition by calling his own children after English language words.

He named his first son Virgenio Silvero Goes To Paradise, in the hope his son will go to heaven when he dies.

A few weeks ago he had a second baby boy who unfortunately passed away at birth.

He and his wife named him Lucky Star Beloved Mother.