The Global teaching practices of Bahasa Indonesia

Abstract

Due to the success of the Indonesian Government’s language policy, Bahasa has been spoken by a growing population. Due to increased globalization and business diversification, Bahasa has become an important language to teach in many countries—the present research aimed to investigate the global teaching practices of Bahasa Indonesia. BIPA is a language program designed for non-native speakers of Indonesian who wants to learn BI. For this purpose, the literature regarding Bahasa Indonesia was reviewed, followed by an in-depth analysis of the global teaching practices of Bahasa Indonesia. Results indicated that Bahasa had been taught in 29 countries with 420 centres of BIPA, indicating the increasingly known importance of BI globally. The present research adds valuable content to the growing body of Indonesian Linguistic literature. The practical significance of this research can also not be denied as it provides insights to many countries to incorporate teaching and learning practices of BI further to avail advantage in business and
their economic development by trading with Indonesia, which is rich in resources.