October 28 marked the 90th anniversary of the Youth Pledge which declared three ideals: one motherland, one nation and one language. It proclaimed Bahasa Indonesia the official language of Indonesia.

Many South Jakartans occasionally alternate their language between Indonesian and English. We try to find out why. Notable code-switching between Indonesian and English has become trending in everyday ...

With influences ranging from Portuguese, Dutch, Malay dialects, modern-day English and many other languages, Indonesian language, or Bahasa Indonesia, has a uniquely dynamic history. The Portuguese ...

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 ...

nce in a while, a journalist or scholar opinionates on Timor Leste’s choice of its official languages. Victor Richard Savage, associate professor in geography at the National University of Singapore, ...