Rafiki: The Betawi language has begun to be abandoned by Betawi people as many young people, especially children, don’t know how to speak Betawi. Native speakers themselves consider the language to be ...

As someone who grew up in Jakarta, I’m familiar with a lot of Betawi traditions in my surroundings, such as lenong, pencak silat, and ondel-ondel. This familiarity made me especially excited to ...