TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian language, or Bahasa Indonesia, was designated as the State language on August 18, 1945, the day after Indonesia declared its independence. It is also the national ...

Head of the East Kalimantan Language Agency, Halimi Hadibrata. (ANTARA/Diskominfo Kaltim) "On May 25, 2023, UNESCO proposed the use of Bahasa Indonesia in the UN. If agreed in the November 2023 ...

Bahasa Indonesia was adopted to make communication easier across the vast Indonesian archipelago, but its simplicity has only created new barriers. The woman stood in her roadside stall in a quiet ...

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An Indonesian presidential decree that requires all employers to provide language training in Bahasa Indonesia to foreign workers elicited both criticism from the business community and doubt as to ...

The Indonesia Supreme Court has stated that the absence of a Bahasa Indonesia language version of a contract should not of itself mean that the contract should be voided, except where it can be proven ...

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Born in Beijing, Lucia Lu came to Australia when she was three years old. Lucia admits that she is pretty comfortable speaking Mandarin as her every-day language even though it is not her first ...