This original, public-domain-style announcement reports a delay at a fictional station. It follows contemporary formal Indonesian conventions: the audience is named collectively, operational facts receive subject position, agents remain backgrounded, and clock times are explicit. No historical spelling has been modernized because the text was constructed directly in normalized EYD V spelling.
The announcement is deliberately compact. It is not a general survey of akan, telah, di-, or time expressions; the numbered notes explain how those resources cooperate in this institutional genre.
Complete announcement
PENGUMUMAN
Perhatian. Kepada para penumpang kereta api antarkota nomor 118 tujuan Surabaya Gubeng, diberitahukan bahwa keberangkatan yang semula dijadwalkan pada pukul 13.10 WIB akan mengalami keterlambatan selama tiga puluh menit karena pemeriksaan sarana.
Pemeriksaan telah selesai, dan kereta diperkirakan akan diberangkatkan dari jalur 4 pada pukul 13.40 WIB.
Para penumpang dimohon tetap berada di ruang tunggu utama. Informasi mengenai perubahan jalur akan diumumkan melalui pengeras suara dan papan informasi.
Kami mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan yang terjadi. Terima kasih atas perhatian para penumpang.
The heading stands alone without a final period. Sentences in the body use ordinary capitalization and punctuation; WIB remains capitalized as the abbreviation for Western Indonesian Time.
Line-by-line English translation
Perhatian.
Attention.
Kepada para penumpang kereta api antarkota nomor 118 tujuan Surabaya Gubeng, diberitahukan bahwa keberangkatan yang semula dijadwalkan pada pukul 13.10 WIB akan mengalami keterlambatan selama tiga puluh menit karena pemeriksaan sarana.
Passengers on intercity train number 118 bound for Surabaya Gubeng are informed that the departure originally scheduled for 1:10 p.m. Western Indonesian Time will be delayed by thirty minutes because of a rolling-stock inspection.
Pemeriksaan telah selesai, dan kereta diperkirakan akan diberangkatkan dari jalur 4 pada pukul 13.40 WIB.
The inspection has been completed, and the train is expected to depart from track 4 at 1:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time.
Para penumpang dimohon tetap berada di ruang tunggu utama.
Passengers are requested to remain in the main waiting room.
Informasi mengenai perubahan jalur akan diumumkan melalui pengeras suara dan papan informasi.
Information about any track change will be announced over the public-address system and on the information board.
Kami mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan yang terjadi. Terima kasih atas perhatian para penumpang.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your attention.
Numbered grammar and register notes
1. Kepada para penumpang establishes an institutional audience
Kepada marks the recipients of the information, while para penumpang names them as a human group. Para pluralizes collectively; the noun itself remains unreduplicated. The phrase is fronted before passive diberitahukan, so the announcement reaches the audience without calling each listener Anda.
Kepada para penumpang tujuan Malang, diberitahukan bahwa jalur keberangkatan telah berubah.
Passengers bound for Malang are informed that the departure track has changed. (formal public address)
Para pengguna layanan dimohon memperhatikan informasi pada layar utama.
Service users are requested to pay attention to the information on the main screen. (formal)
Public announcements can use Anda, especially in direct safety instructions, but collective nouns are often more operationally precise: only the affected passengers are addressed.
2. Formal compounds condense identification
The noun phrase kereta api antarkota nomor 118 tujuan Surabaya Gubeng stacks service type, number, and destination without repeated relative clauses. Kereta api and ruang tunggu are fixed compounds written as separate words; antarkota is written solid because bound antar- combines with the following base.
Kereta api lokal tujuan Kutoarjo akan tiba di jalur 2.
The local train bound for Kutoarjo will arrive on track 2.
Ruang tunggu utama berada di sebelah loket informasi.
The main waiting room is beside the information counter.
Institutional compounds remove predictable connective material, but they must remain interpretable. A spoken announcement slows around the service number, destination, track, and time because those are the retrieval points passengers need.
3. Di-passives foreground the service, not an operator
Diberitahukan, dijadwalkan, diperkirakan, diberangkatkan, dimohon, and diumumkan all background an agent. The station, operator, dispatcher, or announcer is institutionally recoverable but operationally less important than the information and affected service.
Keberangkatan semula dijadwalkan pada pukul sembilan tepat.
Departure was originally scheduled for exactly nine o'clock. (formal passive)
Kereta akan diberangkatkan setelah pemeriksaan keselamatan selesai.
The train will be dispatched after the safety inspection is complete. (formal passive)
Perubahan peron akan diumumkan sedikitnya sepuluh menit sebelumnya.
A platform change will be announced at least ten minutes beforehand. (formal passive)
These forms do not encode past time by themselves. The di-passive overview explains voice; temporal interpretation comes from telah, akan, clock time, and context.
4. Akan places events ahead of the announcement time
Akan mengalami keterlambatan, akan diberangkatkan, and akan diumumkan locate events prospectively. Akan is not an inflection on the verb; it is a separate preverbal marker and can precede a passive.
Pintu keberangkatan akan ditutup lima menit sebelum kereta berangkat.
The departure gate will be closed five minutes before the train leaves.
Informasi lanjutan akan disampaikan setelah petugas menerima kepastian.
Further information will be provided after staff receive confirmation.
The stack diperkirakan akan diberangkatkan has two layers: passive diperkirakan “is estimated/expected” evaluates the proposition, and akan diberangkatkan places the dispatch in the future.
5. Telah marks a completed fact with present relevance
Pemeriksaan telah selesai presents the inspection as completed before the current announcement. The result matters now because the station can provide an updated departure estimate. Telah is common in formal announcements; everyday conversation often prefers sudah.
Gangguan pada sistem sinyal telah ditangani oleh petugas.
The signal-system disruption has been handled by staff. (formal)
Seluruh penumpang telah diarahkan menuju ruang tunggu sementara.
All passengers have been directed to the temporary waiting area. (formal)
English tense may translate telah with has/have, but telah itself does not conjugate the following verb and does not make every clause past.
6. Numbers and time provide an audit trail
The announcement distinguishes service nomor 118, original time pukul 13.10 WIB, delay length tiga puluh menit, revised time pukul 13.40 WIB, and jalur 4. The label before each number tells listeners what kind of number follows.
Kereta nomor 72 dijadwalkan tiba pada pukul 18.25 WIB di jalur 1.
Train number 72 is scheduled to arrive at 6:25 p.m. Western Indonesian Time on track 1.
Keberangkatan tertunda selama dua puluh menit, bukan sampai pukul dua puluh.
Departure is delayed by twenty minutes, not until twenty o'clock.
Pukul introduces clock time; selama introduces duration. Formal Indonesian clock notation conventionally uses a period here, not the English-style colon.
7. Dimohon grades an instruction as institutional direction
Para penumpang dimohon tetap berada... is formally a passive request, but functionally it directs passenger behavior. It sounds less personally commanding than Anda harus tetap berada..., while the station context still gives it authority.
Penumpang dimohon tidak berdiri di dekat tepi peron.
Passengers are requested not to stand near the platform edge. (formal safety direction)
Mohon simpan tiket hingga perjalanan berakhir.
Please retain your ticket until the journey ends. (concise formal direction)
The formula does not name an enforcer. Authority comes from the venue, genre, and operational relevance.
Vocabulary glosses
| Expression | Meaning | Genre note |
|---|---|---|
| diberitahukan bahwa | it is hereby/in this way communicated that | (formal) agentless information frame |
| semula dijadwalkan | originally scheduled | establishes the superseded time |
| mengalami keterlambatan | experience a delay | formal operational collocation |
| pemeriksaan sarana | rolling-stock/equipment inspection | railway operational wording |
| diperkirakan | is estimated/expected | marks an estimate rather than a guarantee |
| diberangkatkan | be dispatched/sent off | causative passive from berangkat |
| pengeras suara | public-address system/loudspeaker | fixed compound, separate words |
| ketidaknyamanan | inconvenience | formal nominalization |
A natural translation preserving the register
ANNOUNCEMENT
May we have your attention. Passengers on intercity train 118 to Surabaya Gubeng are advised that the departure originally scheduled for 1:10 p.m. will be delayed by thirty minutes for a rolling-stock inspection.
The inspection is now complete, and the train is expected to depart from track 4 at 1:40 p.m.
Passengers are requested to remain in the main waiting room. Any track change will be announced over the public-address system and displayed on the information board.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank passengers for their attention.
The English version avoids repeatedly inserting you. Like the Indonesian original, it foregrounds the affected service and the operational update rather than an individual announcer.
Common Mistakes
1. Reading the passive as past tense
❌ Kata diberangkatkan sendiri selalu berarti ‘was dispatched’.
Incorrect—di- marks passive voice; time must come from context or a marker.
✅ Kereta akan diberangkatkan dari jalur 6 dalam lima menit.
The train will be dispatched from track 6 in five minutes.
2. Dropping the causative suffix
❌ Kereta akan diberangkat dari jalur sebelah timur.
Incorrect—the passive causative is diberangkatkan, not diberangkat.
✅ Kereta akan diberangkatkan dari jalur sebelah timur.
The train will be dispatched from the eastern track.
3. Reduplicating after para
❌ Kepada para penumpang-penumpang tujuan Yogyakarta, harap bersiap.
Incorrect—para already marks the human group; do not also reduplicate penumpang.
✅ Kepada para penumpang tujuan Yogyakarta, harap bersiap.
Passengers bound for Yogyakarta, please prepare.
4. Leaving kepada without a compatible frame
❌ Kepada para penumpang harus tetap di ruang tunggu utama.
Incorrect—the kepada phrase cannot directly serve as the subject of harus.
✅ Para penumpang harus tetap berada di ruang tunggu utama.
Passengers must remain in the main waiting room.
5. Doubling the clock-time label
❌ Kereta tiba pada jam pukul 16.05 WIB.
Incorrect—use either jam or the formal clock-time label pukul, not both together.
✅ Kereta tiba pada pukul 16.05 WIB.
The train arrives at 4:05 p.m. Western Indonesian Time.
6. Joining locative di to its noun
❌ Para penumpang menunggu diruang tunggu dekat jalur 3.
Incorrect—locative di is written separately from ruang.
✅ Para penumpang menunggu di ruang tunggu dekat jalur 3.
Passengers are waiting in the waiting room near track 3.
Key Takeaways
- Kepada para penumpang identifies a collective operational audience without requiring Anda.
- Formal compounds and labeled numbers make service, destination, track, and time retrievable.
- Di- marks passive voice; telah, akan, and scheduling expressions locate events in time.
- Public passives foreground the affected service and suppress routine institutional actors.
- Dimohon packages an authoritative direction as an impersonal request.
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