Awak kapal menyuruh penumpang duduk dengan tenang di kabin.

Awak kapal means the crew of the ship. It is usually understood as a collective noun, so it often refers to the ship’s crew as a group, not just one crew member.

• awak = crew
• kapal = ship

So awak kapal literally means ship crew.

Depending on context, it could sometimes refer to one crew member speaking or acting on behalf of the crew, but in most cases learners should understand it as the crew.

In Indonesian, noun phrases are commonly built with the main noun first and the describing noun after it.

So:

• awak kapal = crew of the ship
• literally: crew ship

This is a very normal Indonesian pattern:

• rumah sakit = hospital
• meja makan = dining table
• pintu kabin = cabin door

English often uses of or apostrophe structures, but Indonesian usually just puts the nouns together.

Menyuruh means to tell someone to do something, to order someone to do something, or to instruct someone to do something.

In this sentence:

• Awak kapal menyuruh penumpang duduk...
• The crew told/ordered the passengers to sit...

A useful pattern is:

• menyuruh + person + verb

For example:

• Ibu menyuruh anaknya tidur.
  The mother told her child to sleep.
• Guru menyuruh murid membaca.
  The teacher told the students to read.

So in your sentence:

• penumpang = the people being told
• duduk = the action they are told to do

This is a very common question.

• menyuruh = to order, tell, instruct
• meminta = to ask, request

So menyuruh usually sounds stronger and more authoritative than meminta.

Compare:

• Awak kapal menyuruh penumpang duduk.
  The crew told/ordered the passengers to sit.
• Awak kapal meminta penumpang duduk.
  The crew asked the passengers to sit.

In a safety situation on a ship, menyuruh makes good sense because the crew has authority.

Suruh is the root word.
Menyuruh is the verb form with the prefix meN-, which is very common in Indonesian.

• suruh = tell/order (root)
• menyuruh = to tell/order (active verb)

In full sentences, Indonesian often uses the meN- form for active verbs, especially in formal or neutral standard Indonesian.

Compare:

• Dia menyuruh saya masuk.
  He told me to come in.

In casual speech, people may sometimes say suruh instead of menyuruh, but menyuruh is the standard form here.

This happens because of a spelling and sound change caused by the meN- prefix.

With roots beginning with s, the s usually disappears and the prefix becomes meny-.

So:

• suruh → menyuruh
• sapu → menyapu
• sewa → menyewa

This is a regular pattern in Indonesian verb formation.

Penumpang means passengers. In this sentence, they are the people receiving the instruction.

Structure:

• Awak kapal = subject
• menyuruh = verb
• penumpang = object/person being told
• duduk = action they are told to do

So the pattern is:

someone tells someone else to do something

That is why penumpang comes right after menyuruh.

In English, we say:

• told the passengers to sit

In Indonesian, after menyuruh, you usually just put the next verb directly:

• menyuruh penumpang duduk

There is no separate word equivalent to English to here.

This is very normal in Indonesian with verbs like menyuruh.

Duduk means sit or be seated.
Dengan tenang means calmly, quietly, or in a calm manner.

So duduk dengan tenang means:

• sit calmly
• remain seated calmly
• sit quietly

Depending on context, it may suggest not just the physical act of sitting down, but also staying calm while seated.

Indonesian often expresses adverbial meanings with dengan + adjective/noun-like form.

So:

• tenang = calm
• dengan tenang = calmly

This is a very common pattern:

• dengan cepat = quickly
• dengan hati-hati = carefully
• dengan sopan = politely

Sometimes Indonesian also uses adverbs without dengan, but dengan + word is a very common and natural way to express -ly ideas.

Sometimes, yes, depending on the sentence. But dengan tenang is very standard and clear.

For example:

• Dia berbicara dengan tenang.
  He spoke calmly.

In some contexts, Indonesian can place tenang directly after the verb, but that may sound slightly different or less standard depending on the sentence. For learners, dengan tenang is a safe and natural structure.

Di kabin means in the cabin.

• di = in, at, on
• kabin = cabin

When di is a preposition showing location, it is written separately:

• di kabin = in the cabin
• di kapal = on the ship
• di rumah = at home

This is different from di- as a verb prefix, which is attached to the word:

• ditulis = written
• dibuka = opened

So:

• di kabin → separate, because it shows place
• dibuka → attached, because it forms a passive verb

Most naturally, di kabin tells us where the passengers are supposed to sit.

So the meaning is basically:

• The crew told the passengers to sit calmly in the cabin.

It most directly goes with duduk:

• sit in the cabin

Of course, in a broader sense it also describes the setting of the instruction, but grammatically and semantically it is most naturally understood as the location of the sitting.

Yes, it is very typical.

The sentence follows a common Indonesian pattern:

Subject + Verb + Object + Complement/Adverbial

Here:

• Awak kapal = subject
• menyuruh = verb
• penumpang = object
• duduk dengan tenang = action/complement
• di kabin = location

So Indonesian is being quite straightforward here.

Yes, that is a possible context-based translation.

The literal core is:

• told/ordered the passengers to sit calmly in the cabin

But in real English, especially in a transportation or safety context, duduk can sometimes be rendered more naturally as:

• remain seated
• stay seated

That depends on the situation. If the passengers were already sitting, English might prefer remain seated. If they were standing and being told to sit down, sit down may fit better.

Usually yes, especially on ships or airplanes.
Kabin is a loanword and is commonly used in Indonesian.

Depending on context, di kabin could be understood as:

• in the cabin
• in their cabin
• inside the passenger cabin

But the basic meaning is simply in the cabin.

Yes. Indonesian nouns usually do not change form for singular vs. plural.

So penumpang can mean:

• passenger
• passengers

In this sentence, it is most naturally understood as passengers, because the crew is usually addressing more than one person. But grammatically the noun itself does not show plural marking.

If Indonesian wants to make the plural very explicit, it can use reduplication:

• penumpang-penumpang = passengers

However, that is often unnecessary if the context already makes it clear.

It sounds neutral to fairly formal, and completely natural in standard Indonesian.

Reasons:

• menyuruh is a standard verb form
• the overall sentence structure is neat and textbook-like
• dengan tenang sounds natural and clear

In very casual spoken Indonesian, people might use shorter or less formal wording, but this sentence is good standard Indonesian.