Fewer Australians are learning Indonesian, and Indonesia could do far more to fix that
- Written by Billy Nathan Setiawan, PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics, University of South Australia
(Wikimedia Commons/Mia Salim), CC BYFor more than two decades, linguists and researchers have observed a decline in Australians’ interest in learning the Indonesian language (bahasa Indonesia).
A 2010 report from a team of Australian applied linguists shows that since 2001, the number of students taking Indonesian language lessons in...




