"We submit the proposal in the AIPA forum where all delegates accepted it and that it (Bahasa Indonesia) will be included in the AIPA statutes," Marzuki said after attending an AIPA meeting with the leaders of ASEAN here on Saturday.
He said that in a previous meeting most of the AIPA delegates accepted the Indonesian proposal to include a clause in the statutes which stipulated that the Indonesian language was an official language in the ASEAN region.
Alie said delegates understood that Bahasa Indonesia was not only spoken in Indonesia but also in a number of other ASEAN countries.
He said that the inclusion of the Indonesian language into the AIPA statutes would still have to pass a number of phases, one of which was the amendment of the statutes.
"The amendment of the statutes would be discussed in Cambodia in September later this year," the Indonesian House Speaker said.
The proposal to include the Indonesian language in the AIPA statute was tabled for the first time during the 31th AIPA General Asesembly in Hanoi, Vietnam on September 21, 2010.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian House Speaker said earlier that the AIPA served as a communication forum for building the 2015 ASEAN Community.
"We always establish communications between AIPA and ASEAN in the framework of attaining the goals and creating the ASEAN Community in 2015," Marzuki Alie said after an AIPA delegate meeting here on Saturday.
"Cooperation between the parliaments and governments are vitally important because there are many resolutions made by the parliaments. The many resolutions would be difficult to be synergized if not coordinated by the two organizations," he said.
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Editor: Suryanto
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