Indonesia-Malay Language, ASEAN Economic Community, and Academic Lingua Franca

This paper examines opportunity to use Indonesian-Malay Language (IML) as a lingua franca of ASEAN academic community. The result shows that the implementation of ASEAN December 2-3, 2015 1SSN-2477-3638 Economic Community is an entrance to embody the idea due to de facto condition that ASEAN region is not different from the context prior to the implementation of Anglo-Dutch Treaty in 1824 with Malay as the lingua franca. The transformation IML into lingua franca can be carried out through the ASEAN University Network. Involving IML as an integral part of all formal agreements made, establishing of double degree programs, and publishing network with Indonesia-Malay-language publications are the initial works to embody IML B as ASEAN academic lingua franca.