Literacy in English and the transformation of self and society in post-Suharto Indonesia.
Lamb, M; Coleman, H · White Rose Research Online
Among several hundred indigenous languages, Bahasa Indonesia gained pre-eminence as the national language of Indonesia during the country’s first 50 years of independence. The fall of Soeharto in 1998 and the subsequent devolution of power to the regions might have been expected to lead to a resurgence in use of local languages but instead it appears to be E…