All articles in this issue were written/co-written by 33 authors from 4 countries. The articles discuss the contribution of the Merdeka Curriculum to students’ creativity in Indonesian language learning, the analysis of elementary school Indonesian language textbooks based on BSNP 2022 standards, a comparison of the cognitive quality of textbook assessments in the 2013 and Merdeka Curricula, divorce in the fairy tale of Jaka Tarub through Freud’s personality psychology and Javanese culture, character education values in Acehnese and Minangkabau lullaby oral traditions, coordinative and subordinative conjunctions in a novel, the reconstruction of “Kato Nan Ampek” values as an ethical pedagogy in language learning, gender themes in Philippine fiction in English, and the types and functions of interjections in a YouTube talk show.
Geographical Coverage: Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, and the Philippines.
