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Indonesian artist Ika Vantianti talks with her colleague Yolando Zelkeos Siahaya at a cafe in Jakarta (Reuters) – Hussy, mistress, whore, evil woman – these are just some of the nine example compound words that artist Ika Vantiani was shocked to find listed under the entry for ‘woman’ or ‘perempuan’ in Indonesia’s official dictionary. All nine were sexualised or derogatory terms. In contrast, in the entry for ‘laki-laki’, one of the words for man, there is just one example...

JAKARTA, Feb 15 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Over the past few weeks, Indonesia’s language agency Badan Bahasa has managed to irk gender and women activists alike by refusing to remove derogatory definitions for “perempuan” (woman) in the Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language (KBBI), the primary reference book on the national language. The agency has defended itself by maintaining that the definitions contained in the KBBI simply reflected the word’s use in the common lexic...