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Title: Language policy in education in Indonesia

The language policy in Indonesia is interesting in that approximately 400 different languages have been spoken. In terms of the ‘ Indonesian’ Language, Not all Indonesian people can speak or understand its national language. According to Nababan (1991), 72 million people can speak Indonesian out of 146 million. The official language development in Indonesia has a history of emphasising the political aspect. Indonesian is not an indigenous language and is characterised by its opposition to colonial rule and political importance in the historical perspective on Indonesian. This Wikipedia article will introduce the language and education policy in Indonesia. This article also investigates the hidden issues of language policy and education in Indonesia. To apply the specific argument, This article divides the paragraph to introduce different perspectives to show the language policy issues in Indonesia. History, Official language argument in Indonesia and attach the list of languages include both primary and local in Indonesia to get clear understand of language policy in Indonesia.

Indonesia's history and its language/ education policy

This section will introduce the relationship between the colonised history (Netherland, Japan) and its language policy and how it may affect the past/current language policy in Indonesia.

List of languages in Indonesia

Introduce the list of languages in Indonesia, then Discuss the potential for Indonesian education policy to positively or negatively impact the population. I will also highlight the Indonesian education system for children who do not speak the official language.

History of Indonesian Language and its policy (transition/reform)

Critically analyse the past language and educational policy in Indonesia to understand the key elements to describe the situation of Indonesia. List of past language policy in Indonesia (Nababan, 1991).

1945: Indonesian is listed in the Constitution as an official language.

1947: 1st spelling reform.

1972: 2nd spelling reform- this reform makes the present shape of Indonesian.

1975: Complete the standardisation of all terms of the Indonesian language by establishing the national centre of language development.

Reference: Nababan, P. (1991) Language in education: The case of Indonesia’, International review of education, 37(1), pp. 115–131. doi:10.1007/BF00598171.