In June it launched its first one: Astro Awami, a Bahasa-language channel in Indonesia.

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That's how you say East Timor in Bahasa Indonesia.

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Some American programs still have large audiences, but the trend is the other way -- even if it is only toward Hong Kong and Taiwan kung fu dramas dubbed into Bahasa Indonesia.

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Later, however, Chief Justice Eusoff Chin overruled Paul, issuing a circular reminding judges of Section 8 of the National Language Act, which states that all court proceedings must be in Bahasa Malaysia.

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Abdullah Syafie, a rebel commander of the Free Aceh Movement in Pidie district in northern Aceh, refuses even to speak Bahasa Indonesia--the language that more than anything binds the country together--and a young aide translates his words from Acehnese.

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