Aksara-ku.id: Social networking site and language standardization instruments

Abstract

The use of Indonesian language in society has not been fully standardized, especially in social networking sites. People often use the non-standard Indonesian language. From the previous research, we found the fact that the forms of non-standard Indonesian language on social networking sites are (a) acronym or abbreviation, (b) affix, (c) forms that irregular and cannot be formulated, and (d) mixed code. To handle this problem, modern action is required. Such action utilizes social networking sites. Aksara-ku.id is a social networking site having four Indonesian-language standardization instruments: Pedoman Umum Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia, Tata Bahasa Baku Bahasa Indonesia, Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, and Kamus Bilingual Indonesia-English which are able to help users to write in standard Indonesian language. In this paper, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method by Susanto is used to build Aksara-ku.id. Aksara-ku.id provides people the opportunity to access a free and easy language standardization instrument. Aksara-ku.id is an option to resolve the non-standard Indonesian language problems in the society by providing four language standardization instruments.