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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Courses of Instruction and you emerge with three courses marginally related to the country—and not even one for the Indonesian language. We teach Bretton and Sumerian, Old Church Slavonic, and Pali— but have omitted Bengali, Javanese, Telugu, and Indonesian??€”which combined, are spoken by a total of 480 million people around the world. Though it’s true that Indonesia is an archipelago, we’re in trouble if the only Indonesian-speaking professor at this University is one whose specialty is fish...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani, | Title: Ignoring Indonesia | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

...universities, with their significant base of curiosity and knowledge of the outside world. To this end, Harvard’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, or even the Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ought to hire a preceptor to teach Indonesian??€”just one. That is all it takes; cultural understanding can arise when we begin to speak the same language...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani, | Title: Ignoring Indonesia | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

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