Amidst the joy of Eid Al Fitr and the Easter holiday, Linguistics students have done a stellar job not only in presenting their current linguistics research but also in the academic essay competition. In April 2025, 18 students successfully attended national and international seminars and gained third place in the scientific paper competition as well as a gold medal in Porsenigama’s Futsal Competition. They presented papers on translation, historical comparative linguistics, anthropological linguistics, pragmatics, and descriptive linguistics.
These students have demonstrated a profound understanding of the complexities of language, showcasing their ability to dissect, analyze, and articulate intricate linguistic concepts with remarkable clarity. Their papers delve into the urgency of language and literature preservation, as well as language and culture. In addition to enriching the versatility of linguistics, their observations on local languages, ranging from Makassar, Mandar, Javanese, Aceh, Sunda, and Mooi languages, provide an adequate documentation that is valuable to understand language evolution and variation in Indonesia’s archipelago.
Some students also successfully provide an elaborated explanation of the relationship between language and culture. The study of offering names in Saparan Ki Ageng Wonolelo by Annisa Nur Hidayati and Nisa Halisa Hakim, for instance, highlights how language has long been imprinted and employed to give important meaning in every region’s local wisdom. One of the students who presented a paper in Seminar Nasional Bahasa Ibu XVII, Rozana Argandari, also emphasizes how local languages, such as Mooi, possess a very limited speakers, making preservation and documentation very crucial.