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There needs to be greater equality within Indonesia’s diasporic communities if their strengths are to be properly realised

  • Annisa D. Amalia, Muhamad Arif, Arivia T.D Yuliestiana,

Indonesia has active diasporic communities with vast potential to enhance the nation’s economic prosperity.

INTRODUCTION: The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies

  • Associate Professor Michael Ewing,

The power structures needed to create and enforce common systems of communication can simultaneously disadvantage others.

Learning how to say ‘you’ in Indonesian: why it’s time to embrace its complexity

  • Associate Professor Dwi Noverini Djenar,

There is a seemingly simple aspect of Indonesian that eludes learners: how to say ‘you’ to an addressee.

‘Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia’ by Subhan Zein

  • Dr Howard Manns,

Few have investigated the underpinnings of Indonesia’s language policy as thoroughly as Zein.

Politicising the natural environment through Indonesian art

  • Dr Edwin Jurriëns,

Many Indonesian artists discuss natural disasters not in isolation, but in relation to broader social, political and historical processes and injustices.