Apologies if this has been covered already!

Bahasa is one of the available languages in DVDP. Has there been any discussion or clarification on whether this refers to Malaysian or Indonesian or both?

Thanks,
Dag

It's the Lingua Franca of the country. There are many regional languages, dialects. There must be one mother language (school, government) otherwise it would be a mess. It is based on Malay. There are more countries where this is the case, India for example. Several countries in Africa (French) or Arabic (Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, where most people speak a Berber dialect or the Arabic dialect). On the other hand: Arabic is in fact the Lingua Franca of all "Arabic" countries (Egypt, Iraq, Libanon, Syria, Saoudi Arabia etc.) since all these countires have an local Arabic dialect. Someone from Morocco probably will not understand someone from Egypt if they speak their dialect (other words, consonants that are used different).

Quoting dee1959jay:

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The full name of the language is Bahasa Indonesia. So I would think that that's what it refers to.

True. On the other hand the full name of the Malaysian language is Bahasa Melayu, so it could just as well refer to Malaysian.

I guess there is no consensus on how to use the Bahasa check box. For now, I will use it for both Malaysian and Indonesian and do a clean-up later if both languages are given individual options in the future.

sorry, wrong number