| 英文摘要 |
The study presents a rigorous qualitative Critical Comparative Analysis (CCA) of bilingual education policies, structural containment, and academic knowledge production in Singapore and Indonesia, investigating the systemic friction between macro-level state marketization and micro-level community language vitalities. Utilizing textual datasets spanning major structural reviews, this study examines how post-colonial states deploy language planning—either through an external globalized language (Singapore) or national vernaculars coupled with English-Medium Instruction (Indonesia)—to secure global economic capital and national multi-ethnic cohesion. By applying George Bereday’s systematic framework of comparative education alongside social theory, the findings reveal a profound structural disconnect state-engineered environments heavily reward English proficiency, compressing individual speaker agency into forced pragmatic choices that systematically erode minority mother tongues and regional vernaculars (bahasa daerah). Furthermore, the study deconstructs the institutional containment of classroom pedagogy and research, illustrating how centralized governance confines academic inquiry into functional, practical silos to neutralize systemic critique and protect state policy. However, a significant transnational divergence emerges, while Singapore’s hyper-segregated framework leaves educators stripped of micro-level autonomy, contemporary Indonesian data establishes a vital model of counter-hegemonic resistance. Through localized early-childhood adaptations, multicultural pedagogical interactions, and spontaneous translanguaging, grassroots classroom actors subvert top-down boundaries to protect and revitalize indigenous cultural identities within globalized spaces. |