ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of Indonesia’s language planning agency, the Badan Bahasa, in researching languages other than Indonesian as part of its corpus planning, by particularly paying attention to efforts made during the New Order Era and those in the Post–New Order Era. In the early years following independence in 1945, the biggest challenge that confronted the language planning agency on undertaking corpus planning on Indonesian was how to develop Indonesian to become “a stable, sophisticated national and official modern language which would become the vehicle of modern Indonesian thought and culture”. Corpus planning of Indonesian has been remarkably successful in terms of terminological expansion. Indonesia’s language planning agency, the Badan Bahasa, has been instrumental in the corpus planning of Indonesian. Since its inception in 1947, the Badan Bahasa has grounded policymaking on Indonesian’s status as the national language to tackle challenges in planning the language’s corpus.
