Promise Fulfilled in the East
July 10, 2007
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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