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In:Terminology throughout History: A discipline in the making
Edited by Kara Warburton and John Humbley
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 24] 2025
► pp. 530–550

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Chapter 25
Terminology in Indonesia

Appropriating or conveying modernity

 | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
Published online: 23 May 2025
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Abstract
This chapter examines terminology in standard Indonesian — a variant of Malay which is Indonesia’s national language. After an introduction on the early developments of terminology in the Malay-speaking world before and during the colonial era, it delves into the terminological policies, including cooperation between Indonesia and Malaysia, whose national languages are closely related. It examines the principles and methods adopted by the Indonesian language agencies, and then presents a selection of terms and their formation processes, which reveal an essentially translational terminology. It then attempts to evaluate the outcomes in implementing official terminologies, and in reducing terminology dispersion. The last part focuses on the terminological resources produced in Indonesia.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The first terminological developments in the Malay world
    • 2.1Precolonial terminology
    • 2.2Terminology as a colonial enterprise
  • 3.Structures and principles of Indonesian institutional terminology
    • 3.1Indonesian national level
      • 3.1.1The institutional framework
      • 3.1.2Terminological procedures
    • 3.2Indonesian-Malaysian terminological cooperation
      • 3.2.1Realities and effects of the harmonisation
      • 3.2.2What aims?
    • 3.3The evolution of neological procedures
      • 3.3.1Pre-independence neology
      • 3.3.2Komisi Istilah neology
      • 3.3.3Pusat Bahasa neology
  • 4.Institutional terminology and spontaneous terminology
    • 4.1Implantation of official terminologies
    • 4.2Terminological variation and dispersion
  • 5.Terminological resources: Diversity and linguistic dependency
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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