What is it about?
This chapter presents an analysis of the Indonesian government’s language policies and teachers’ perspectives of a multilingual situation where the national and local languages are used in education.
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Why is it important?
The chapter provides a meeting point between the government’s agenda on national unity as indicated in language policies and teachers' experience and perception of the success of the national unity agenda using Bahasa Indonesia in schools.
Perspectives
Writing this chapter with my co-author was a great journey! Looking into policy and taking teachers' perspectives into account, it has become clear that the positions of languages in a society is flavoured by local wisdom, rather than determined solely by a top-down government policy.
Anita Dewi
Charles Sturt University
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This page is a summary of: Bahasa Indonesia for National Unity: an Analysis of Language Policies and the Use of National and Local Languages in Education, August 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004709850_005.
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