Language is often attributed as the identity of a country. The more worn the country's language, then the nation's identity was also raised. For instance Arabic and English.
Minister of Information, Communication, and Culture Dr Rais Yatim Malaysia Malay states can actually be a unifying language of the ASEAN region.
"Malay had long grown and evolved in this region," said Minister Rais while Indonesia received six reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Thursday.
Bahasa Melayu known and used in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and southern Thailand. "That includes 300 million people. So, why do not we use it? Why we are more proud to wear the English language?" minister said that in 1964 the teaching of Malay language at the University of Chicago, United States, this.
Doctoral Rais Yatim realize that Indonesian has developed in such a manner and language enriched with uptake from anywhere. But the majority of its content remains rooted in the Malay language.
"Twenty percent of our so-so different, but 80 percent of our language should be the same," he said. Doctorate in law is convinced that the Malay language would be a language of ASEAN with the program and follow-up are obvious.
"Through the media and the writers should this campaign is. If all we speak English, Malay finished," the minister said that the origin of the family of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, this. Rais Family come from Lariang, Kampung Palupuah.
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