Foreign words for shop titles

Foreign words for shop titles

TANGERANG (JP): Despite the existing government ban on the use
of foreign words for business titles, dozens of shops and
restaurants in Lippo Karawaci commercial center here have been
words from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages on their
shop signs.

"There is a 1991 presidential decree which bans the use of
foreign languages for shop titles but it doesn't carry any
sanction," Tangerang administration spokesman Slamet Putranto
said on Friday.

Probably because we're now living in a reform era people feel
free to use foreign words on their shop signs, he added. (41/edt)