Indonesia will make English a compulsory subject for primary school students beginning in 2027, as part of education reforms ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia is making it easier for foreigners to work here — but they will have to study as well. A decree by President Joko Widodo that is set to take effect this month will ...

Jakarta: Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday announced a policy plan to include Portuguese as a priority ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Mahsun, a linguist from the Bandung Institute of Technology, said that Bahasa Indonesia needs to be internationalized so that it can become the ASEAN official language. "The ...

Indonesia will withdraw a plan that would force foreign workers to take local language proficiency exams after protests from investors, two government officials said. Manpower Minister Muhammad Hanif ...

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The Embassy of Indonesia in Qatar is holding an online Indonesian language intensive course, which opened on September 3 and will run until December 5. In a statement, the embassy said the programme ...

Australians are showing little interest in studying Indonesian language, despite a downgraded travel warning that has opened up student travel to Indonesia. Professor Tim Lindsey, an expert in ...

Bahasa Indonesia was adopted to make communication easier across the vast Indonesian archipelago, but its simplicity has only created new barriers. The woman stood in her roadside stall in a quiet ...