As part of my efforts to understand society during World War II in Indonesia, this article provides a brief survey of some of the efforts in learning (and teaching) language during the war–both Japanese and Indonesian. These include things related to medicine, as during the occupation medical and other examinations could not be held in Dutch–they had to be in Indonesian or Japanese. Publications in Dutch were also banned. The result was a lot of demand for learning language, but also development of new specialist vocabularies for subjects like medicine.
