Transformers Speak Bahasa Indonesia

Indonesia very steady. Until now still showing the first generation of Transformers cartoons. But luckily these Transformers all go language training before so can speak Indonesian. Check it:



I love the way the voice actors try to inject emotion into the dialogue. Like at the beginning the Decepticon with the falsetto voice goes, "pekerjaan aku seleSAIiiiii!" which translates into "my work is finished!!" But his "selesai" sounds damn cock.

The dialogue at the last part between Megatron and Optimus Prime is classic:

Megatron (to Optimus Prime): Aku akan menguapkanmu!
Translation: I'm gonna to make you steam*!

Prime (sounding constipated): Kau kalah, Megatron.
Translation: You're a loser, Megatron.

Megatron: Begini ya? Dengar, Prime. Kau tidak akan pintar memiliki electroCELLku!
Translation: Like that is it? Listen, Prime. You are not capable enough to get my ElectroCELL!

And then Megatron proceeds to blow up his "Electrocells" which I guess is the Indonesian word for Energon.

Actually, to take it a step further, if, in the above dialogue, you replace "tron" with "wati" and "Prime" with "SBY" and "Electrocell" with "electorate", it sounds like a pretty apt representation of a hypothetical confrontation during Indonesia's 2004 presidential elections.

Actually the best part is when Optimus Prime says, "Autobot! Berubah dan berangkat!" which translates literally into "Autobot! Change and go!" Sounds like your father fuck you when you were a kid, "boy ah! late for school already! Faster change and go ah!"

But too bad by that time my camera run out of memory leh. I try to record some more next time.


* "uap" in Indonesian can be directly translated into "steam".