Adoption from Regional Languages Encouraged

KOMPAS/RIZA FATHONI

Dadang Sunendar (left), chairman of the Language Development and Fostering Agency, presents an award to Kompas Daily as a mass media organization dedicated to using the Indonesian language at the Education and Culture Ministry complex in Jakarta on Monday, Dec. 10. The award, given to the mass media organization with the best use of the Indonesian language, was received by Kompas deputy chief editor Tri Agung Kristanto. Kompas has received the award for three consecutive years.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Advocating the use of bahasa Indonesia as the national language in public spaces requires a legal basis in the form of bylaws. Moreover, the absorption of words from regional languages into official Indonesian needs to be encouraged.

This point was raised in a workshop on the assessment and evaluation of linguistic and literary developments held by the Language Development and Fostering Agency of the Education and Culture Ministry in Jakarta on Monday (10/12/2018).