Sentences Translation of President Prabowo Speech at Plenary Cabinet Meeting on October 23, 2024, on the Cabinet Secretariat Website: Analysis of Techniques and Acceptability

This research aims to analyse (1) sentence types based on Greenbaum & Quirk (1990), (2) translation techniques following Molina & Albir (2002), and (3) translation acceptability using Nababan et al. (2012). Using a descriptive qualitative method, the data were taken from President Prabowo’s speech at the Plenary Cabinet Meeting on October 23, 2024, sourced from the official Cabinet Secretariat website, with Indonesian source text and English target text. The analysis shows that the speech used declarative and imperative sentences. However, the declarative is dominant. Ten translation technique are used, widely with reduction, adaptation, and amplification, often in combination of two or three techniques. The speech predominantly uses declarative sentences as the President mainly socializes the cabinet’s work plans rather than giving direct commands; translation techniques such as reduction, adaptation, and amplification are applied due to the shift from spoken language to written translated language, resulting in a high level of acceptability.

Keywords: presidential speech, quality of acceptability, sentences, translation technique.