[voltooid]

It makes sense that the language is too young to have evolved to be a means of communication.

I remember being surprised that the phenomenon of colonial rulers of a country imposing their own language on the population (occurred with the British wherever they went) was not true for Indonesia. The Dutch seemed to have kept their language out of reach for most of the local population. There being no translation for a lot of words, especially legal terms, from Dutch to local languages, a lot of Dutch words ended up being part of Bahasa Indonesia. This could be more cause for it to feel like a foreign language.