Research & Writing
Bahasa
Jalaran Bahasa checks Indonesian writing against EYD and KBBI conventions, rewrites register, and tightens formal academic prose — built for Indonesian rather than translated from an English tool.
Who Bahasa is for
For Indonesian students and professionals writing formally, where the gap between everyday Indonesian and academic Indonesian is wide and unforgiving. Formal Indonesian is close enough to daily speech to feel easy and different enough to go wrong.
What Bahasa does
Bahasa checks against EYD — the official spelling system — and KBBI, the standard dictionary, which are the actual authorities Indonesian formal writing is judged against. It rewrites between formal, casual and academic registers, and tightens academic prose, where Indonesian has a particular tendency toward long sentences. It is the counterpart to Edit rather than a translation of it: an English grammar tool pointed at Indonesian misses precisely the conventions that matter.
- EYD and KBBI convention checking
- Formal, casual and academic register rewriting
- Academic prose tightening
- Runs locally on self-hosted inference
How Bahasa works
Paste the Indonesian text
A paragraph or a section of formal writing.
Check EYD and KBBI
Against the official spelling system and the standard dictionary — the authorities your work is actually judged against.
Shift the register
Formal, casual or academic. The distance between them in Indonesian is larger than most writers assume.
Tighten the prose
Academic Indonesian runs long. This is where most of the improvement comes from.
What Bahasa does not do
Bahasa works on Indonesian; English is Edit’s job, and translation between them is Translate. It does not handle regional languages — Javanese, Sundanese and the rest are out of scope. Its conventions follow standard formal Indonesian, so a house style that deviates will not be respected. It is a language tool and not a subject-matter reviewer.
Common questions
What are EYD and KBBI?
EYD is the official Indonesian spelling system and KBBI is the standard dictionary. Together they are what formal Indonesian writing is assessed against, which is why the checks target them specifically.
Does it work with Javanese or Sundanese?
No. It covers standard Indonesian only. Regional languages are out of scope.
Why not just use an English grammar tool?
Because an English tool does not know EYD or KBBI, and formal Indonesian conventions are exactly where the mistakes are. This is built for the language rather than adapted to it.
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