Why no Bahasa Indonesia?

Thu, 13 Jul 1995

On July 4, 1995, I was flying with Japan Airlines Flight JL725 from Narita-Tokyo to Soekarno-Hatta in Jakarta, continuing to Denpasar, Bali. The inflight announcements during the flight were in Nihon-Go, English, then Chinese, but none of the announcements were in Indonesian. I should admit that it was my first time flying with JAL this year.

I wonder whether, in the airline industry, it would be better to have inflight announcements in at least the languages of the country of embarkation and the carrier's flag country plus the country of destination, especially with JL725 where every destination was within Indonesia.

PETERS M. SIMANJUNTAK

Jakarta

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