"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 statute
Editor: Suryanto
Copyright © ANTARA 2011
