That’s basically because Standard Indonesian has been artificially Europeanicised, or so I hear: > In both Malaysia and Indonesia, there is a misguided belief

That’s basically because Standard Indonesian has been artificially Europeanicised, or so I hear: > In both Malaysia and Indonesia, there is a misguided belief that in order for a language to be able to fulfil the functions of a "national language", it must have a "well-developed" system of grammar. Unfortunately, the only type of grammar that the language planners are usually familiar with is the Eurocentric grammar of European languages.Thus, Standard Malay / Indonesian has had a variety of linguistic features artificially grafted onto it that are reminiscent of European languages, including nominal number marking, verbal active and passive prefixes, and others. — Gil 2001, Escaping Eurocentrism: Fieldwork as a Process of Unlearning (https://git.rahona.be/luigi/sose2020/raw/commit/89acbd0429820316cf75d28ad81c82880aaa5c03/monography/eurocent.pdf https://git.rahona.be/luigi/sose2020/raw/commit/89acbd042982...)