People can't speak Bahasa

People can't speak Bahasa

SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: A total of 51,658 people or three
percent of this province's population cannot speak the Indonesian
language, according to an official.

Chief of the provincial statistics office Nyoto Widodo said
that the people are above five years of age and live in the
interior.

He said that of the 1.8 million people living in East
Kalimantan, 1.7 million people above the age of five can
communicate in the national language. He said that 14.27 percent
of the total population is illiterate, Antara reported. (par)