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Indonesian Journal of Language and Communication Studies
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Indonesian Journal of Language and Communication Studies is a double blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research articles and critical studies in the fields of language and communication. This journal is published as a platform for the dissemination of theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary findings that welcome a wide range of topics, including but not limited to linguistics (theoretical and applied) and conversation analysis, media and digital communication, intercultural communication, language policy and planning, critical communication studies, and language-based approaches to communication phenomena.
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Articles 12 Documents
Automating intercultural communication: pragmatic failures and cultural bias in AI-mediated Indonesian–English translation Heratul Aini
Indonesian Journal of Language and Communication Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Language, artificial intelligence, and platformed communication in Indonesia
Publisher : CV Narasi Khatulistiwa Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijlc.v1i2.888

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Background: AI-mediated translation increasingly facilitates Indonesian–English communication, yet fluent outputs may obscure pragmatic failure and culturally reductive representation in institutionally produced public discourse across tourism, education, public information, and everyday digital interaction in Indonesia. Objective: This study examines how automated translation preserves interpersonal meaning, represents culturally embedded Indonesian expressions, and maintains consistency across systems and repeated generations. Method: A comparative qualitative corpus design analysed twelve Indonesian source segments from verified public institutional documents using a Pragmatic Equivalence Matrix, Cultural Representation Audit, and Cross-System Stability Test across forty-eight matched outputs. Results: Findings showed that interactional stance permeated all source segments, while audience alignment, mitigated directives, and figurative meanings created recurrent pressure points for automated translation. Cultural vulnerability centred on mudik, gotong royong, culinary naming, gift practices, and ritual symbolism, with generalisation and Anglocentric reframing compressing religious, communal, regional, and symbolic associations. Implication: Cross-system comparison indicated 56.3% strategy agreement, 60.4% lexical or framing variation, 37.5% recurrent pragmatic shifts, 31.3% repeated cultural reframing, and 70.8% severity consistency, demonstrating that stable surface quality did not ensure intercultural adequacy. Novelty: This study contributes an integrated evaluative framework that reconceptualises AI translation quality as the combined preservation of pragmatic force, cultural accountability, and cross-run stability rather than lexical accuracy and fluency alone.
From moderation to marginalization: language, power, and content governance on Indonesian social media platforms Reza Pahlawan
Indonesian Journal of Language and Communication Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026): Language, artificial intelligence, and platformed communication in Indonesia
Publisher : CV Narasi Khatulistiwa Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67490/ijlc.v1i2.889

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Background: Content moderation increasingly governs linguistic visibility, public participation, and institutional authority across Indonesia’s multilingual social-media environment, where standardized harm categories may inadequately recognize contextual, regional, and identity-based expression. Objective: This study examines how regulatory language, platform policies, enforcement procedures, and civil-society critiques configure relationships among language, power, and marginalization in Indonesian content governance. Method: Using a qualitative corpus-assisted design, this study analyses 26 verified public documents from 2020–2026, integrating official regulations, platform standards, enforcement communications, civil-society assessments, and comparative governance materials across Indonesian public digital communication ecosystems, through critical policy discourse analysis, moderation-process mapping, and multimodal governance analysis. Results: Findings show that harm definition and contextual classification dominate governance discourse, while linguistic accessibility and culturally situated interpretation receive comparatively limited institutional attention. Enforcement documents prioritize automated detection, takedown, and compliance, whereas explanations, appeal mechanisms, and unequal consequences remain less systematically articulated. Implication: Civil-society and international materials consequently reposition transparency, proportionality, participation, localization, and independent review as necessary correctives to concentrated state-platform authority. Novelty: This study contributes an integrated account of moderation as a distributive governance system, demonstrating that marginalization may emerge not solely from content removal but from institutional asymmetries between classificatory power, visibility control, contextual competence, and users’ capacity to understand and contest decisions.

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