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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
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For 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...

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