ANALYSIS OF PUN TRANSLATION IN INDONESIAN COMEDY MOVIES ON NETFLIX (2019-2024): TYPES OF PUNS, TRANSLATION STRATEGIES, AND ACCURACY

This study examines the translation of puns utilizing Delabastita’s (1996) framework in Indonesian comedy films on Netflix from 2019 to 2024, focusing on pun types, translation strategies, and translation accuracy. Employing a qualitative-descriptive approach with purposive sampling, the research analyzes subtitles from selected films through content analysis and focus group discussions (FGDs) with linguistic experts. The study identifies four pun types—homophony, homonymy, paronymy, and polysemy—with paronymy (36%) and polysemy (34%) being the most prevalent, reflecting the cultural and linguistic nuances of Indonesian humor. The translation strategies employed include Pun to Pun (29%), Pun to Non-Pun (61%), and Pun to Zero (10%), with Pun to Non-Pun dominating due to linguistic and cultural challenges. Translation accuracy, assessed using Nababan’s (2012) framework, reveals that only 10% of translations are accurate, 29% are less accurate, and 61% are not accurate, highlighting difficulties in preserving humor and cultural context. The findings indicate that Pun to Pun strategies yield higher accuracy for paronymy and homonymy puns beside Pun to Non-Pun and Pun to Zero strategies yield not accurate for puns translation.