About 45% of respondents in one survey said they put learning a new language on their New Year’s resolution list—did you do the same this year? If so, we’re checking to see how those Duolingo lessons ...

Indonesian language studies are in a “death rattle” with high schools and universities abandoning the subject at alarming rates, despite the federal government insisting Asian language skills and ...

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JAKARTA, Indonesia Paulina Sugiarto’s three children played together at a mall here the other day, chattering not in Indonesia’s national language, but English. Their fluency often draws admiring ...

Scotch College in Melbourne's east has received scrutiny for plans to phase out its long-running Bahasa Indonesia program. Experts say it's indicative of a broader decline in the teaching of ...

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A leading Darwin private school will axe its long-running Indonesian studies program, the latest school to do so nationally. Labor MP Luke Gosling said it marked a "huge backwards step" and Australia ...