2018
DOI: 10.33258/birci.v1i2.14
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National and Official Language: The Long Journey of Indonesian Language

Abstract: Indonesia is a big country with more than 18,000 islands. It has at least 726 regional languages, making it the World’s second most diverse, after Papua New Guinea. To choose one national and official language is a big problem for Indonesia because of the diversity of the regional languages. Given the diversity of cultures and vernaculars of our country, it was difficult to find what Indonesians had in common. That common identity would eventually be found by developing standardizing language to unify the isla… Show more

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“…Collaborating in language, whether there are social activities or not in social activities (Darwis, 2018). Ridwan (2018) stated that The function of official language is usually dealing with certain business in a certain territory such as nation"s court, parliament, and administration and it is not widely spoken in the society. However, it is possible that one language serves both functions.…”
Section: Semanticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Collaborating in language, whether there are social activities or not in social activities (Darwis, 2018). Ridwan (2018) stated that The function of official language is usually dealing with certain business in a certain territory such as nation"s court, parliament, and administration and it is not widely spoken in the society. However, it is possible that one language serves both functions.…”
Section: Semanticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As the national language, Indonesian is used for political, cultural, and social functions. While the official language is used for state business, national courts, parliament, to business and commerce (Ridwan, 2018;Smith & Jarkko, 1998).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For centenaries, they spoke Malay throughout the islands of Indonesia and the language became a widely spoken lingua franca, especially in coastal areas. This is either of the principal grounds why in the 20th century, Malay was preferred as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia and also played such a prominent part in presiding Indonesian unity (Nugroho, 2015;Ridwan, 2018). Bahasa Indonesia was born from the independence movement and the creation of the nation from the struggle against Dutch colonialism which led to the founding of the Republic of Indonesia in 1945.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite of the diversity of regional languages, Bahasa Indonesia is now widely used in every aspects of life. Indonesians are overwhelmingly bilingual; indeed many people have a good command of three of four languages (Ridwan, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%