ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses linguistic ecology and language policy. It describes corpus planning, which deals with the forms of language, such as standardised spelling, vocabulary and grammar. The book focuses on the role of Indonesia’s language planning agency, the Badan Bahasa, in the orthographical standardisation, terminological expansion and grammatical standardisation concerning the Indonesian language. It shows how Indonesian has developed considerably into a language that has reached its “apogee”, being able to reflect cultural development as well as advances in modernity and technology. The book argues that revitalisation planning is not only about languages but more about language speakers. It also discusses efforts that have been made on revitalisation planning in Indonesia, covering aspects such as prior ideological clarification, localised sustainable development, political reconciliation and the role of regional autonomy in language maintenance.
