Learn Hardcore Malay: Berdasarkan laporan kejadian, pelanggaran keselamatan berlaku semalam. - Based on the incident report, the safety violation happened yesterday.

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Berdasarkan laporan kejadian, pelanggaran keselamatan berlaku semalam.

Meaning

Based on the incident report, the safety violation happened yesterday.

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Breakdown of Berdasarkan laporan kejadian, pelanggaran keselamatan berlaku semalam.

What does berdasarkan mean, and how is it used here?

Berdasarkan means based on or according to, depending on context.

In this sentence, Berdasarkan laporan kejadian means According to the incident report or Based on the incident report.

A useful thing to notice is that berdasarkan often introduces the source or basis for a statement:

So here it sets up the information source before the main statement.

Why is laporan kejadian translated as incident report? Why is the order reversed compared with English?

Malay often puts nouns together in a head + modifier pattern.

So laporan kejadian literally looks like report incident, but in natural English we reverse it to incident report.

This is very common in Malay:

rumah sakit (in Indonesian; not standard Malay) type structures aside, in Malay standard:
kad kredit = credit card
jalan raya = main road / highway
keselamatan negara = national security

In many noun phrases, the main noun comes first, and the describing noun comes after it.