Bls: Berapa skor TOEFL lo ??
In my TOEFL class, i got 54 something... my lowest score is 523, but my highest was 54... i got the high score coz i am student of english department in STBA LIA Pengadegan.
When i joined the EPT test as for my graduated requirement, i just got 553, and it could be the second best score after my cleverest friend in LIA. He got around 607. TOEFL is very useful when you want to apply a scholarship or continuing your study overseas or you working in some foreigner companies. TOEFL is not necessary if you just want to continue your study in Indonesia.
Some Indonesian universities who conduct TOEFL are exaggerated i think. for the highest level institution like them, they should enforce confidentiality to practice the proper and good Indonesian language among their students, not to make compulsory for their students to join the TOEFL test.
Japan, can be one of the best miracle power in Asia because they are really proud on their culture, as in this case, their language. every year they do translation from some English/other foreign language's scientific book into Japanese, so that their national's identity, which is Japanese language, are well maintained, sustainable, and grow stronger. As the result, the number of foreign people who study japanese are increasing time to time. This step is followed by China, who does the same thing as Japan did several years before (since the Meiji Restoration, i presume). I presume, China would make their Chinese (Mandarin or Hokkian) as the next international language beside English.
I do not want Indonesia someday will be the second Malaysia, the country of which people are not confident enough to practice Malayan in the proper and good way, they mix their Malays with English... sounds weird, silly and absurd to me...
God, I Do Love Much Indonesian Language...