Indoneziaj esperantisoj devu labori pli diligentaj
It is nice to know that Indonesia
government schools are going to 'omit' learning English language in
the elementary schools. I felt happy because the children are going
to get less 'torture' of English irregular verbs and certainly the
irregularity of pronunciation too.
By such act, many parents in Indonesia
would complain about it, especially the elite families. This would be
a vital time for the Indonesia Esperantists to propose the teaching
of Esperanto instead of English language, an imperialism language and
such hegemony would not bring any good effect to the regions.
If Indonesia schools introduce
Esperanto in the school curriculum, it would certainly bring many
challenges to the neighboring countries, like Malaysia and other
ASEAN region. This would make communication easier and of course,
save lots of money in the investment of foreign language learning. Of course, making trading more easier with less communication breakdowns.
As Nicole Else pointed out that it
should begin with an easy language as the first foreign language, if
Indonesia Esperantists can submit the findings and research to the
government, it would help to speed up the Esperanto speakers in the
region.
According to short film here, it is only the South East Asia
region has the highest number of English speakers but as far as I
know of, it is not true. If take Singapore as a whole of 3 millions
of people, it would be a big question that English is so widely
speaking in SEA region. One out of ten ASEAN countries, only two
little countries, Singapore and Brunei Darulsalam uses GCE syllabus,
the other eight countries are putting English as a second or foreign
language, but the Vietnamese Esperantists need to explain thissituation for us.
Any good business people would know if
your investment does not bring in better returns, it would be a lost
in the legal account. Most non-Latin speakers need more than 16 years
to learn English language and it might not be all can control well of
this hegemony language. However, all can learn Esperanto within 200
hours or even less than this amount, the investment and the returns
are high.
Certainly, there are many elites wanted
to control the people and they are shouting a lots. But a caring
government would and should consider the general people and
after-all, the Esperanto has the good propaedeutic effect for the
language learning and the people are free to choose the third foreign
languages. For the elites who love English so much, they can go on
for the imperialism languages like English, French etc. The great
treasures of a country is thus derived from the effect of Esperanto.
I just have to keep my fingers crossed
for the next action from the Esperantists in Indonesia. However, the
comments from the readers on the Jakarta Post would worry me and
other parents as well. They speculate that the government would bring
in the Arabic language to replace English. I think this is a step
backward instead moving forward to the 21st century ofequality.
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