Semakin cepat pembekal tenaga mendapat laporan, semakin cepat bekalan elektrik dipulihkan.

This is a very common Malay pattern meaning the more / the more or the ...er, the ...er.

So:

• Semakin cepat pembekal tenaga mendapat laporan, semakin cepat bekalan elektrik dipulihkan.

means something like:

• The faster the energy provider gets the report, the faster the electricity supply is restored.
• or more naturally in English: The sooner the energy provider receives the report, the sooner the electricity supply can be restored.

Here, semakin cepat ... semakin cepat ... creates a comparison between two situations.

Because the sentence has two linked parts:

• semakin cepat pembekal tenaga mendapat laporan
• semakin cepat bekalan elektrik dipulihkan

The first cepat refers to how quickly the provider receives the report.
The second cepat refers to how quickly the electricity supply is restored.

This repetition is normal in the semakin ... semakin ... structure. It mirrors English patterns like:

• The faster they know, the faster they can act.
• The sooner you leave, the sooner you arrive.

Literally, it breaks down like this:

• peN- ... -al form in pembekal = supplier / provider
• tenaga = energy / power

So pembekal tenaga means energy provider or power provider.

In this sentence, it probably refers to the company or authority responsible for electricity supply.

Yes. Mendapat means to get, to obtain, or to receive.

So:

• mendapat laporan = gets / receives a report

In Malay, mendapat is very common and natural here. English might prefer receive, but get is also a perfectly good literal match.

You could also see menerima laporan in other contexts, and that would also mean receive a report, but mendapat sounds very natural in everyday Malay.

Bekalan elektrik means electricity supply or power supply.

Breakdown:

• bekalan = supply
• elektrik = electricity / electric

So:

• bekalan elektrik = electricity supply

If you only say elektrik, you are talking about electricity in general.
But bekalan elektrik specifically refers to the supply of electricity, which fits the idea of service being restored after an outage.

Because dipulihkan is a passive form.

Breakdown:

• pulih = recover / return to normal
• memulihkan = to restore something (active)
• dipulihkan = to be restored (passive)

So:

• bekalan elektrik dipulihkan = the electricity supply is restored

If the sentence used memulihkan, it would need an active subject doing the action, such as:

• Pihak pembekal memulihkan bekalan elektrik.
• The provider restores the electricity supply.

But here the focus is on the electricity supply being restored, not on explicitly naming who restores it.

A very important clue is the prefix di-.

In standard Malay:

• di- + verb often marks the passive voice

Examples:

• dibuka = opened / is opened
• ditutup = closed / is closed
• dipulihkan = restored / is restored

So in this sentence:

• bekalan elektrik dipulihkan

literally means:

• the electricity supply is restored

The thing receiving the action, bekalan elektrik, comes first.

That is normal in Malay passive sentences. The agent can be left unstated if it is obvious or unimportant.

Here:

• bekalan elektrik dipulihkan = the electricity supply is restored

The sentence does not explicitly say by the energy provider, but that is understood from context.

If you wanted to add the doer, Malay could say something like:

• bekalan elektrik dipulihkan oleh pembekal tenaga
• the electricity supply is restored by the energy provider

But leaving it out is very common.

Malay usually does not use articles like a, an, or the.

So words like:

• pembekal tenaga
• laporan
• bekalan elektrik

can mean:

• an energy provider / the energy provider
• a report / the report
• electricity supply / the electricity supply

You work out whether it is a or the from context.

That is why translating Malay into English often requires you to add articles that are not actually present in the Malay sentence.

Grammatically, laporan by itself is unmarked for number. Malay nouns do not have to change form for singular vs plural.

So laporan can mean:

• a report
• the report
• reports
• the reports

depending on context.

In this sentence, English will usually translate it as the report or a report, because the sentence sounds like it is talking about a report of a power problem or outage.

If Malay really wanted to clearly mark plurality, it could use reduplication:

• laporan-laporan = reports

But that is not necessary here.

Not really in this sentence.

Semakin can sometimes mean increasingly or more and more, depending on context, for example:

• Semakin sukar = increasingly difficult

But in the pattern semakin ..., semakin ..., it works more like:

• the more ..., the more ...
• the ...er ..., the ...er ...

So here it is better understood as:

• The sooner/faster ..., the sooner/faster ...

not simply more and more fast.

Yes, it helps separate the two linked parts of the semakin ... semakin ... structure.

So:

• Semakin cepat pembekal tenaga mendapat laporan, semakin cepat bekalan elektrik dipulihkan.

The comma marks the pause between:

1. the condition or first comparison
2. the result or second comparison

It works a lot like English:

• The sooner the provider gets the report, the sooner the electricity supply is restored.

You may sometimes see Malay punctuation used a little flexibly, but the comma is helpful and natural here.

Yes. The original sentence uses a passive form in the second half:

• bekalan elektrik dipulihkan = the electricity supply is restored

A more active version could be:

• Semakin cepat pembekal tenaga mendapat laporan, semakin cepat mereka memulihkan bekalan elektrik.

That means:

• The faster the energy provider gets the report, the faster they restore the electricity supply.

The original sentence sounds slightly more formal and impersonal, which is common in public-information or service-announcement language.

A rough gloss would be:

• Semakin = the more / the -er
• cepat = fast / quickly
• pembekal tenaga = energy provider
• mendapat = gets / receives
• laporan = report
• semakin = the more / the -er
• cepat = fast / quickly
• bekalan elektrik = electricity supply
• dipulihkan = is restored

So very literally:

• The faster the energy provider gets a report, the faster the electricity supply is restored.

That is not the most natural English wording, but it shows the structure clearly.