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A Contemporary Rationale for Indonesian Language and Studies in Australian Schools: Literature Scan

This Literature Review was commissioned as part of the ‘Why
Indonesia matters in our schools: A rationale for Indonesian
language learning in Australian education’ and prepared by
Dr Michelle Kohler.

WEBINAR: Asian states and their diasporas

China India and Indonesia are increasingly seeing the huge potential of their diasporas for economic development.

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.