Mau Ke Mana?

Jennifer Lindsay*

Tempo

December 31, 2018

LAST month I summarized one recurring theme in my columns about Indonesian, namely the ongoing process of divergence and convergence between the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia from their common Malay beginning. Today’s column, dear reader, will sadly be my last for Tempo after writing it regularly for six years, and so it is fitting to ask where the Indonesian language might be heading, like that first friendly communicative greeting w

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