ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – Indonesia language is now being studied more intensively in various parts of the world. To date, there have been 54 countries that teach Indonesia language.
“To date, 54 countries are teaching Indonesia language with more than 300 institutions and as many as 172 thousand active participants,” said Head of the Language Development and Development Agency, Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, E Aminudin Aziz in Jakarta, Thursday, 14 December 2023.
The number of countries studying Indonesia language has increased after Indonesian was inaugurated as one of the languages that can be used at UNESCO.
“The role of Indonesia representatives is very important who are our partner agents, especially overseas who will become international Indonesian language partners,” he said.
Amin explained that in an effort to support the Indonesian language internationalization campaign, the Language Agency collaborates with four partners, the first of which are Indonesian representatives abroad, namely the Embassy, Consulate General and Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia.
The second is universities that teach Indonesian as a language of instruction for communication studies and use Indonesian as a tool when studying Indonesia.
The third are Indonesian Language teachers for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) and the Indonesian diaspora, as well as four researchers from Indonesia.
“It turns out that inside and outside the parties whose efforts to internationalize the Indonesian language are truly extraordinary,” explained Amin.
Indonesian was successfully designated as an official language at the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO on Monday, November 20 at UNESCO Headquarters Paris, France.
The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to France, Andorra, Monaco, Mohamad Oemar, in his statement in Jakarta stated that this determination made Indonesian the 10th official language recognized by the UNESCO General Conference, alongside English, Arabic, Mandarin, French, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Italian and Portuguese.
“Indonesian has been a uniting force for the nation since pre-independence times, especially through the Youth Pledge in 1928, so that it is able to connect various ethnicities in Indonesia,” said Oemar. (Antara)
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