Entries by Manneke Budiman, https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/author/manneke/

Banality of expression: how has language changed after the New Order?

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Vicky Prasetyo became a national laughing stock in 2013 when he introduced a unique vocabulary of buzzwords into Bahasa Indonesia. Dr Manneke Budiman writes that his ungrammatical and meaningless expressions are representative of a style of speech that has become more common in the 18 years since Soeharto fell.

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