At the Wisma Bahasa Indonesian language school in the central Javanese city of Yogyakarta, Kristyanto Nugroho, 41 is busy with a steady stream of new students.
The school had already been a favourite of Western embassies and big US multinationals. But in 2014, it experienced a wave of new students - most of them Australian undergraduates flush with government funding to learn Indonesian.
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