We report on a calculation of the dilute instanton liquid contribution to t
he strangeness in the proton. Specifically, we express the proton matrix el
ements of strange-quark operators in terms of a model valence nucleon state
and the strangeness producing interactions. This enables us to evaluate th
e strangeness in different Lorentz channels in the same way. We find that i
n the context of the MIT bag model only the scalar strangeness is induced b
y the random instanton liquid. We discuss these results in the light of the
recent experiments.