Glocalization of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Strengthening Preservation of Indonesia s Endangered Languages in Globalized World

The negative impact of globalization affects the very existence of cultural identities including local languages. Indonesia, multilingual state with more than 700 local languages, encounters such impact where a number of its languages are increasingly endangered, even some of them already dead. This paper is intended to identify some issues faced by the government and its policies to preserve its vernacular languages. In the final section, we suggest the concept of glocalization as important understanding to expand actors viewpoint in preserving local languages from endangerment and extinction, as well as attempts to contribute some of the ideas substantiating the preservation effort.