Long ago when I was in primary school, English was introduced as a "menu" in the curriculum. Since then, surely, the business of English Courses widely spread promising the better mastery and fluency of English and many people were attracted, as if English is the best language and people had to master it. Well, it is actually not wrong to master English, but the idea of English is better than Bahasa Indonesia, which I personally think, is totally wrong.
All languages are arguably equal in the sense
that there is nothing intrinsically limiting, demeaning or handicapping about
any of them. All languages meet the psychological and social needs of their
speakers. They are equally deserving of a scientific study, and can provide us
the valuable information about human nature and society. This statement is
justified by the fact that all languages have both universal and complex
grammar.
All
languages must have a universal grammar: all languages must have subject and
predicate. All languages must have a complex grammar: there may be relative
simplicity in one respect, bet there seems always to be relative complexity in
another.
Another
case proving that all languages equal one another is the phenomenon between
Bahasa and English. For some people, Bahasa is considered as lower level
compared to English. However, this is simply wrong. In terms of economic
values, English is indeed more powerful than Bahasa, but not linguistically. The
obvious example is that English has only one word for rice. Bahasa, on the
other hand, has numerous words for rice, such as “nasi”, “beras”, and “padi”.
Therefore, linguistically, Bahasa Indonesia is equal to English, dan saya bangga bisa berbahasa Indonesia dengan baik dan benar. :-) Wallahu a'lam bi al-shawab.
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