02 April 2024
Triko Altanzir
FIB USU PR - On Tuesday, April 2, 2024, the Linguistic Master's and Doctoral Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences (FIB), Universitas Sumatra Utara (USU) held a Guest Lecture “Unravelling Enggano Socio-ethno-linguistics: A Window to the Complexity of Indonesian Linguistic Ecology". This Guest Lecture also invited resource person Prof. I Wayan Arka, who is a lecturer at Universitas Udayana and also at the Australian National University. The moderator for this Guest Lecture was Dr. Tasnim Lubis, S.Pd.I., M.Hum.
Prof. I Wayan Arka is an Indonesian linguist with a world reputation. His writings were published, among others, by John Benjamins, De Gruyer Mouton, Standford, and Oxford University Press. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, University of Cologne, and Leiden University. Currently he is focused on researching languages on Enggano Island which is funded by foreign institutions.
Enggano Island is one of Indonesia's outermost islands located in the Indian Ocean. Enggano Island is part of the government area of North Bengkulu Regency, Bengkulu Province, and is part of the Enggano sub-district.
This Guest Lecture discusses a large foreign-funded project regarding language life on the Enggano Islands in Blitung. This material provides a valuable platform for participants to explore various aspects of life, language and culture on the Enggano Islands. This talk about language, life and culture in the Enggano Islands provides very in-depth insight for Masters and Doctoral students in Linguistics on how to get a big project related to language and culture on a remote island in Indonesia. This Guest Lecture has presented various in-depth insights.
One of the main points of this Guest Lecture that was discussed was the importance of choosing a location for the life of disadvantaged communities that is close to our life and language, it could even be as if it is in our backyard. Don't let foreign hands touch our nearest islands. We are the ones who have to care and study that place. How do we start to explore a large project with the core of language and culture research, starting with determining the right methodology for language and culture research on a remote island. Participants are invited to consider the suitability of research material with available funding and produce other large projects in the Indonesian region.
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