What language do Indonesians speak?

Indonesian is a Malay language based on Riau dialect and the official language of Indonesia. About 30 million people in the world use Indonesian as their mother tongue, and about 65.438+0.4 billion people use Indonesian as their second language, so they can read and speak Indonesian skillfully.

Indonesian is spoken all over Indonesia, and many people in the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United States also use Indonesian. In order to unify with written Malay, 1972, the Indonesian government introduced the accurate pinyin (Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan) based on the Malay spelling system, which makes the spelling of Indonesian and Malay very close now.

The official Indonesian language is Bahasa (Bahasa means "language" in Indonesian). There are more than 300 dialects in Indonesia's population of 230 million. Some elderly Indonesians can speak some Dutch, and they also use English in business, sightseeing and education.