Addressing the Downward Trend
Why has interest in Indonesian studies in the US plummeted? Educators on Indonesian studies in the US tell why this has occurred with a subject that is currently grabbing the attention of giants such as China and India.
November 16, 2011
INDONESIAN studies or Bahasa Indonesia language classes are no longer considered attractive, if one were to go by the number of students taking courses at SEASSI (the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute) or COTI, the Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian.
The Indonesia Program Coordinator at SEASSI, Amelia Joan Liwe, said that things were very different in the 1990s. Many American students at the time were interested in taking up the SE
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