| The present study attempts to explore the practice of language ideology and language power in language use and language policy in Indonesian context. The study highlights several cases of language use and implementations of language policy in Indonesia to better understand the ideology and the conception of power underlying language policy practices. The view about language policy tends to split into two, i.e. between the proponents and the opponents of direct intervention into the development of Bahasa Indonesia to become a modern language of science, art, and technology. However, it seems that the competition between the two views is more or less about the ideology and power relations in language use rather than the issues of linguistic features. |