A couple of articles on the current state of Bahasa Indonesia appeared in yesterday's (Sunday's)Jakarta Post. Don't worry, you don't actually need to know Bahasa Indonesia to understand them. The Jakarta Post's site does not have a very good archiving system, so if you're interested I should look soon.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20011028.@01

http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20011028.@03

Bingley

An article from the NY Times called "How Language Came to Be, and Change, can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/social/30CONV.html

Bingley

Thank you for an interesting read, Bingley.

Thanks, I even bit the bullet and finally subscribed. I just hate all those password sites!