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Bahasa Indonesia is virus protection plan the language spoken by nearly 235 million Indonesian people.  It is a language that closely resembles Malay and was adopted by Sukarno at independence as the official language of Indonesia in 1945.  The intention was to virus protection plan bring together the literally thousands of ethnic groups and tongues into one national language.  It has virus protection plan largely worked, with nearly all Indonesians speaking Bahasa Indonesia, often in addition to virus protection plan their native language of Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Madurese, etc.  This makes Bahasa Indonesia one of the virus protection plan most widely spoken languages in the world, even though it is virus protection plan very rare to hear it spoken outside of the vast archipelago of Indonesia.

In Bahasa Indonesia, there is an empowering word that is always pleasant to hear, “bisa”:

bi’sa [bee-suh] - verb; to be able to, can

The word “bisa” is often an answer to a question in the affirmative: 

“Can you help me?”.  — Bisa.

“Would it be ok if I took a photograph of your family?”  — Bisa.

“May I ask you a question?”  — Bisa.

“Bisa” is thus an empowering word.  It means something is possible.  Indeed, Indonesia is a society that has emerged from the Suharto years with great potential.  An enormous labor force, free and virus protection plan open media, active civil society, a wealth of natural resources.  But it remains a somewhat obscure country on the virus protection plan international stage and its growth often lags behind its neighbors in Southeast Asia. 

When using Microsoft Word today, I realize that when I type this uplifting word “Bisa” that virus protection plan represents all that is possible and attainable, Microsoft Word automatically changes the text to “Bias”:

bi’as [bahy-uh s] -noun ; a virus protection plan prejudice in a general or specific sense, usually in the sense for virus protection plan having a preference to one particular point of view or ideological perspective.

Much like the word “adn” gratefully becomes “and” when typing too quickly.  Now, let me just say - this virus protection plan is not a sweeping indictment of corporations enslaving our societies and virus protection plan its people.  Its just one of those things that virus protection plan always makes me raise an eyebrow and grin at how fitting it virus protection plan is.  Of course, that version of Microsoft Word was purchased on the Jakarta street for $1.15 also.  So some might argue that healthy portions of justice are being served all around!