The major public function of Indonesian has lain in its role as national unifier. Though it began to play this part in the 1920s, it was not until the Japanese occupation that it formally became the language of state, to be taught in schools and use in offices as a matter of official policy. During the Revolution of 1945-49 it was the language of resistance to the returning Dutch and a language of hope for the future.2
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