The number of Australian students learning Indonesian keeps dropping. How do we fix this worrying decline?
- Written by: Howard Manns, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
Karolina Grabowska/Pexels , CC BY-SAAustralia’s Year 12 students are in the middle of making important decisions about their futures. For many, this will involve choosing a university course and the subjects within that.
But if trends are anything to go by, Indonesia won’t figure in these decisions at all, despite its enormous economic,...