Senin , 06 Mar 2017, 20:53 WIB

Saman dance captivates spectators at Roman colosseum

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ROME -- A group of nine Indonesian child artists who performed the Acehnese dance of Saman enthralled spectators visiting the Roman Colosseum, one of the tourism attractions in...

Selasa , 28 Feb 2017, 14:27 WIB

Arabs Enriches Indonesian Language and Culture

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Arabic language has important roles in enriching vocabularies of Indonesian language. It is absorbed into terms of religion, literature, philosophy, law, politics, and science. It creates a huge numbers of loanwords in the language. The internalization of Arabic into Malay or Indonesian language and the use of Arabic alphabets were long before West colonization era.  The...