New curriculum boosts Sundanese studies

[Francis Hult]

The Jakarta Post

 

New curriculum boosts Sundanese studies

 

Learning the Sundanese language was once quite a frightening exercise for both schoolchildren and their parents. Even Hawe Setiawan, who is a secretary of the Sunda Study Center-Bandung and thus concerned daily with this indigenous West Java language, found it hard to help his second-grade child with Sundanese homework. 

 

"It caused a headache, as present-day children were forced to memorize Sundanese terms like seeng, boboko and aseupan for rice cooking utensils no longer used by their mothers or most Sundanese housewives. Teaching them the local tongue eventually meant detaching them from their contemporary world," said Hawe. 

 

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