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Cambridge IGCSE Bahasa Indonesia (0538)

Syllabus overview

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Cambridge IGCSE Bahasa Indonesia is for learners for whom Bahasa Indonesia is a language of everyday use.

Learners develop practical communication skills in reading, writing and speaking Bahasa Indonesia in everyday situations. Learners will be able to communicate facts and express their viewpoints with a degree of accuracy and clarity, in spoken and written form.

Learners will have the opportunity to respond knowledgably to a range of texts and use these texts to inform and inspire their own writing. They will also learn to understand the use of language and implicit and explicit meaning in modern literature.

The course of study is built around real-life topics such as home life, food, health, school, work, hobbies, travel and current affairs.

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  • 2022 - 2024 Syllabus (PDF, 260KB)
  • 2025 - 2027 Syllabus (PDF, 549KB)

Syllabus updates

  • Summary of the changes
    • We review all of our syllabuses regularly to make sure they continue to meet the needs of our schools and are up-to-date with current thinking. We worked with teachers and subject expert panels to update Cambridge IGCSE Bahasa Indonesia as part of our on-going review process. Following the review, we have made some changes to the syllabus for examination in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

      How has the syllabus changed?

      • We have simplified the wording in the syllabus aims, assessment objectives and subject content to make them clearer and easier to understand. These changes do not affect the meaning or focus of the syllabus or assessment objectives. Although the wording will look different in many places, teaching content remains the same.
      • We have changed the name of component 3 to 'Speaking'.

      How has the assessment changed?

      • We have increased the weighting of the speaking and writing components to give candidates more opportunity to show us what they can do. This gives more balance to the three skills and allow candidates more opportunity to show us what they can do.
      • Paper 1 Reading and Understanding: We have increased the marks available from 45 to 50. Candidates will also be asked to demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes in the reading exercise H14.
      • Paper 2 Reading and Writing: We have increased the marks available in this paper from 40 to 60.
      • Component 3 Speaking: We have increased the marks available in this paper from 30 to 40.

      When do these changes take place?

      The updated syllabus is for examination in June 2022, 2023 and 2024. Please see the 2022-2024 syllabus above for full details.

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    • For some subjects, the syllabus states that Grade Descriptions will be made available after first assessment in 2020, 2021 or 2022.

      Publication of grade descriptions was paused in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the temporary changes to the grading standard that have been in place for 2020, 2021 and 2022. We are currently working on producing these grade descriptions. This work will make sure that grade descriptions reflect examination outcomes appropriately and are based on the more stable grading standard that we expect to have in place for June 2023 onwards.

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