The Wild Card winner.

Iven Manning, awardee in the Wild Card category of the National Australia Indonesia Language Award (NAILA) 2018 and a student of Indonesian and Linguistics at the University of Western Australia, speaks about his love for Indonesian and Javanese language and culture.

Iven Manning (centre) receives his award from Elena Williams (right) at the NAILA 2018 Awards night in Melbourne on 09 November. Source: SBS Indonesian

Why does Iven love Indonesians, their language and way of life?  What does winning a NAILA award mean to Iven? Why does he think the NAILA competition is so important? Iven Manning explains

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