FACTS ABOUT INDONESIAN LANGUAGE

Here is unique facts about the unique Indonesian language:

1. Become the second official Language in the Vietnam

Local Government Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, announced Indonesian became second language officially in December 2007, said an Indonesian diplomat.

"Indonesian par with English, French and Japanese as a second language that prioritized," said Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City for the period 2007-2008, Irdamis Ahmad in Jakarta on Friday.

To develop and facilitate the study of Indonesian, the Indonesian Consulate General in that city the means necessary to help some of the university, said Irdamis.

Assisted facilities include computer equipment, props, faculty and financial aid assistance for any activity related to the promotion of Indonesian efforts in the region of each university.

College speech contest was also held in Indonesian, Indonesia essay on race and cultural exhibitions. Hong Bang University, National University of HCMC University of Social and Humanities and open study of Indonesian.
"The number of students enrolled until November 2008 as many as 63 people and according to the universities, the interest to study the Indonesian tends to increase," said Irdamis.
He believes most of the young Vietnam saw a need to study the Indonesian language, given the possibility of increasing bilateral relations between the two most populous countries in ASEAN in the future.
2. Indonesian studied more than 45 countries in the world
Although the most effective change is to change the image of reality, but the role of culture and the Indonesian language in diplomacy is crucial. The high interest in learning foreign languages ​​and culture of Indonesia should be positively welcomed. If you need to Indonesia Indonesia to add the Cultural Center in a number of countries, in order to build mutual understanding and improve your image.
Director General of Information and Public Diplomacy Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andri Hadi was speaking when he appeared at the IX Congress plenary Indonesian language, which discusses the Indonesian as a Media Diplomacy in Developing Indonesia's image in the international World on Wednesday (29/10) in Jakarta.
"Currently there are 45 countries to teach Indonesian, such as Australia, America, Canada, Vietnam, and many other countries," he said.

 Taking the example of Australia, Andri Hadi explained, in Australia Indonesian became the fourth most popular languages. There are about 500 schools teach Indonesian. In fact, children of primary school grade 6 one can speak Indonesian.
For the sake of diplomacy and foreign people gain knowledge about the Indonesian language, according to Director General of Information and Diplomacy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Indonesian modules on the internet need to be held, so that people can access anywhere and anytime.
In addition, the presence of Indonesian Cultural Center in a number of very helpful and important. Foreign countries aggressively building a cultural center, as China is the second time over 100 years to build a cultural center. As for Indonesia to increase and build the Cultural Center of constrained budgets and human resources are reliable.
In the previous plenary session, the Head of the Department of Education Language Centre Dendy Sugono are talking about the politics of language in Indonesia to Establish Competitive Intelligent Insan Indonesia on Civilizations Nations Foundation, said the demands of the future world of work requires an intelligent human being, creative / innovative, and competitive, both locally, nationally, and globally.
To fulfill this purpose, it is very necessary balance mastery of mother tongue (language area), Indonesian, and foreign language to those who are globally competitive, he said.
Dendy describes Sugono, Indonesia needs intelligent human being competitive, to include lo cal spiritual intelligence, skills, and local languages. To national needs include emotional intelligence, skill, and Indonesian. As for the necessary global intelligence, excellence, and foreign languages.

3. Indonesian language Wikipedia was ranked 26th in the world and the Third Largest in Asia
Writing the free encyclopedia on the Internet is increasingly popular Indonesian society. Indonesia and even the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia Indonesia, has become the third largest electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia in Japanese and Mandarin.
"Wikipedia Indonesia now ranked 26 of 250 foreign-language Wikipedia in the world. Whereas in Asia we are ranked third, after Japan and Mandarin, "said Ivan Lanin, the growing number of activists, here on Tuesday.
According to Ivan, who daily work as a lecturer in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Wikipedia Indonesia continued to grow rapidly. "Contributors to grow, so does the article. Its contents are also more varied, "he said.
The high arousal encyclopedia activists were also reflected in the workshop "Writing on Wikipedia Indonesia" series of events held in Indonesia Information Communication Technology (ICT Awards Indonesia) 2007 in Jakarta Convention Center.
"The high interest in this workshop, proving more and more people are interested in sharing his knowledge on Wikipedia," said one board "Wikipedia Indonesia", Revo AG Soekatno here on Tuesday.
Men who are active in Indonesia since 2003 Wikipedia was first revealed on the number of participants reached more than 40 people while the number of computers provided for the training is very limited. Every person is entitled to participants at no charge and get a souvenir from the organizing committee.
"The number of registered much more, but because of limited space and computer equipment for training, so we restricted our participants. In fact there are many participants who did not receive computer training remains states participate, "said the man who is now completing a study of S-3 in the Netherlands.
In the training the participants learn how to write, edit, or add information.
Revo says the free encyclopedia Indonesia now has 69 thousand active contributor of articles with as many as 30 people. Included is a line of the board as many as 14 people.
Despite having developed quite rapidly, the free encyclopedia is several times problematic in terms of the written information contributors. Ie, data and facts that are less accurate and because of the conflict antarkontributor pebedaan dna understanding the data. The issue of politics, religion, and economics is often problematic in terms of accuracy of the information.
"The challenge ahead Wikipedia Indonesia is how to improve the credibility and public trust Wikipedia because the information in Indonesia continues to be updated at any time," said the Revo. (*)
4. Indonesian language the third most widely used on wordpress
... The fact that after the Spanish, Indonesian is the language which was third most widely used Wordpress in these posts. Indonesia also is the second largest country in the world's fastest growing in the use of the blog engine. In the past 6 months 143 108 registered users from Indonesia and the new Wordpress has been around 117 601 633 visits via 40 cities in Indonesia.


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