Promise Fulfilled in the East

Tempo

July 10, 2007

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MANY people will recall the campaign of several years ago by the Jakarta city government to ‘deAnglicize’ names of businesses such as­ restaurants and apartment complexes around town. All would be required to fit into a standard Bahasa Indonesia form. This had some quite comic­ results. Most striking of them in my­ recollec­tion was the West Jakarta housing complex called Green Garden that transmogrified itself as Gren Gaden, which, anybo

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