http://www.helsinki-hs.net/news.asp?id=20020917IE15
A real nutty story about children in East Timor learning Finnish (!) because “Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesian, English, and French are all associated with colonialism.” This is proving hard to verify. A story in The Australian (not online) says that “The World Bank donated Finnish picture books for children in Year 1, and Portuguese texts for Year 2.” After this the kids get mostly Bahasa Indonesia, with Portuguese “reintroduced in the final years of high school as a foreign language, along with English.”