English in Indonesia: killing or helping?

This essay will consider a number of explanations for English as a destructive language and will specifically explore this view in the context of Indonesia. As such, the discussion in this paper will be broken down into some main parts. Addressing the concept of English as a destructive language as a point of departure, this paper proceeds to put forward an overview of the language situation in Indonesia before finally discussing the destructive view of English from two distinct perceptions. Firstly, it will argue that English is not destroying local languages in Indonesia. Secondly, it will show that inequalities between native speakers and non-native speakers of English in Indonesia are still happening.