SpongeBob SquarePants (Indonesian, GTV)

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SpongeBob SquarePants
General information
Network:	Nickelodeon Lativi (now tvOne) (2004-2006) GTV (previously named Global TV)(2006-present) TransTV (movie only)
Broadcast area:	Indonesia
Country:	Indonesia
Language:	Indonesian
Seasons:	14
Episodes:	299
Dubbing studio:	Nickelodeon International Studio
Distributor:	Paramount International Networks
Original run:	Lativi: February 2, 2004 - January 31, 2006 GTV: February 1, 2006 - present
Wiki:	Wiki SpongeBob Bahasa Indonesia

SpongeBob SquarePants is the Indonesian dub of SpongeBob SquarePants. It is part of International SpongeBob SquarePants.

Episodes aired in this dub before airing in the United States

Note: "Lighthouse Louie" isn't counted on this list due to the episode released on the Indonesian version of Nickelodeon Play.

• SpongeBob Meets the Strangler (Lativi)
• Pranks a Lot (Lativi)
• Krusty Towers
• Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
• Pineapple RV
• Swamp Mates
• One Trick Sponge
• Shell Games
• Jolly Lodgers
• Biddy Sitting
• Hiccup Plague
• My Two Krabses
• Kwarantined Krab
• Patrick's Tantrum
• Goofy Scoopers

Episodes aired in this dub before the Nickelodeon South East Asia airing

• Fear of a Krabby Patty
• Shell of a Man
• The Lost Mattress
• Krabs vs. Plankton
• Have You Seen This Snail
• Skill Crane
• Good Neighbors
• Selling Out
• Funny Pants
• Dunces and Dragons
• Enemy In-Law
• Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture
• Patrick SmartPants
• SquidBob TentaclePants
• Krusty Towers
• Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
• Pineapple RV
• Plankton's Old Chum
• Swamp Mates
• One Trick Sponge
• Shell Games
• Jolly Lodgers
• Biddy Sitting
• My Two Krabses
• Knock Knock, Who's There?
• Pat Hearts Squid
• Hiccup Plague
• Kwarantined Krab
• Patrick's Tantrum
• Goofy Scoopers
• Pat the Dog

Voice cast

Character	Voice Cast	Season	Broadcast
SpongeBob	Nanang Niskala	1	Lativi
	Santosa Amin	1-3	Lativi
		5-6	GTV
	Ade Kurniawan	1-5, 12-present	GTV
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
	Rudi Sukistiyono	7-9	GTV
	Iphie Lubis	9-12	GTV
Patrick	Arya Samaji	1-3	Lativi
		8-12	GTV
	Darmawan Susanto	1-8	GTV
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
	Hardianto	13-present	GTV
Squidward	Jumali Prawirorejo	1-3	Lativi
		1-8, 11-present	GTV
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
	Azhary Kulon	8-12	GTV
Mr. Krabs	Dadang Hidayat	1-3	Lativi
		1-9, 12-present	GTV
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
	Solihin Sukabumi	9-12	GTV
Sandy Cheeks	Lady Carmelita Novita	1-3	Lativi
		8-10, 11-present	GTV
	Jheni Rinjo	1-3	GTV
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
	Sani Oktania	4-8	GTV
	Jessy Milianty	11	GTV
Mrs. Puff	Dewi Kamra Indah Jaya	1-7	GTV
	Lady Carmelita Novita	8-10, 11-present	GTV
	Jessy Milianty	11	GTV
	Miftahul Jannah	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	Nickelodeon Indonesia
Plankton	Cecep Suhandi	1	Lativi
	Salman Pranata	1-3	Lativi
		1-7, 8-present	GTV
		The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
	Adith Siddiq Permana	7	GTV
	Unknown 4th dubber	13	TBA
Karen	Dewi Kamra Indah Jaya
		1-4	GTV
	Jheni Rinjo	5-8	GTV
	Lady Carmelita Novita	8-10, 11-present	GTV
	Jessy Milianty	11	GTV
Pearl Krabs	Dewi Kamra Indah Jaya	1-7	GTV
	Lady Carmelita Novita	8-10, 11, 12-present	GTV
	Jessy Milianty	11	GTV
Patchy	Salman Pranata	1-12	GTV
Potty	Jumali Prawirorejo	1-7	GTV
	Azhary Kulon	12	GTV
French Narrator	Dadang Hidayat	1-3	Lativi
		1-9	GTV
	Solihin Bumi	9-10, 11-12, 13-present	GTV
	Jumali Prawirorejo	11, 13	GTV
	Hermano Suryadi	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Nickelodeon Indonesia
Mermaid Man	Jumali Prawirorejo	1-7	GTV
	Azhary Kulon	8-10	GTV
Barnacle Boy	Salman Pranata	1-10	GTV
Flying Dutchman	Salman Pranata	1-7, 9-present	GTV
	Dadang Hidayat	8	GTV

Episodes

List of episodes by language/Indonesian

Inconsistencies

• There are many translation inconsistencies in the Indonesian series of SpongeBob SquarePants. The reason is possibly the different dubbing studio and different translation that used to dub the series. Some of them are:
  • Mrs. Puff is sometimes translated to "Ibu Puff" and "Nyonya Puff." Both of them are the same, but the most used one and the exact translation is the "Nyonya Puff" version. The "Ibu Puff" version can be heard in the episode "Nautical Novice."
  • Flying Dutchman is usually left untranslated. But, in a few episodes, his name translated into "Belanda Terbang." The translated version is hard to be recognized by young audiences. The "Belanda Terbang" version can be heard in the episode "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One."
  • Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are usually left untranslated. But, in a few episodes, their name translated into "Manusia Mermaid" and "Bocah Barnacle." It can be heard in the episode "The Card." Oddly enough, it didn't fully translate because there is no proper and exact translation for mermaid and barnacle in Bahasa Indonesia.
    • Mermaid means "Putri duyung" and there are many translations for barnacle, many of them are "teritip," "remis," "kepah," "kijing."
    • The exact translation of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in Bahasa Indonesia means "Manusia putri duyung" and "Bocah remis."
  • Sometimes, "Boating school" translated into one or a combination of the following sentences on below:
    • "Sekolah mengemudi" (Driving School).
    • "Sekolah lalu lintas" (Traffic School).
    • "Kursus kapal" (Boating Course).
    • "Kursus mengemudi" (Driving Course).
    • "Sekolah kapal" (Ship School).
    • The exact translation of "Boating school" in Indonesian is "Sekolah Berperahu."
    • The most used is "Sekolah kapal."
  • Sometimes, "Old Man Jenkins" translated into one or a combination of the following sentences on below :
    • Jenkins si Kakek Tua (lit. Jenkins the Old Grandpa in "Friend or Foe")
    • Kakek Jenkins (Grandpa Jenkins)
    • Kakek Tua Jenkins (Old Grandpa Jenkins)
    • Pak Jenkins (Sr. Jenkins)
    • The exact translation and most used is "Pak Tua Jenkins"
  • F.E.M.A sometimes translated to "P.S.K.K.L" ("Perbaiki Si Kepala Kosong Lagi") it can be heard in the episode "The Nitwitting."
• The music score sometimes subbed and sometimes not subbed. The subbed one can be seen in the episode "Atlantis SquarePantis."
  • When SpongeBob aired in Lativi, the music wasn't subbed in Indonesian.
• In past airings until the mid 2010s, the subtitle for music score is yellow-colored with black outlines. Nowadays, the TV channel (GTV) which SpongeBob is airing on is replacing it with white-colored and black outlines. The channel uses the replacing method because the subtitle is hard to dub. Also, the reason why the channel changes the subtitle color is to match the colors of all program's subtitle in that channel.
• The intro, title cards, time cards, credits, and ending isn't dubbed and keep in English.
  • This also happens to all shows airing on Nickelodeon Indonesia.
  • However, because GTV created special airing, SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. All of these are removed.

Deleted/remained scenes

Lots of scenes were deleted when aired on GTV (formerly Global TV) because GTV puts more ad-breaks on the middle of episode (this was done before Global TV rebranded to GTV) or possibly to following Indonesian Broadcasting Commission's (KPI) regulations and guidelines (possibly some of the scenes that cut are considered inappropriate for viewers especially children and GTV didn't want viewers to imitate the inappropriate and harmful scene), especially in every montage or music score scene. But sometimes, GTV cut some trivial scenes, making some people annoyed.

Season 1

• "Help Wanted" - The scene where SpongeBob jumps from the diving board is cut in current airing because the scene is considered inappropriate there or the scene can be easily imitated by viewers despite the scene remained in past airing.
• "Jellyfishing" - The scene where Patrick blows the hot soup onto Squidward's bandaged face several times and Squidward's palm zoomed after Patrick stabs jellyfish net to Squidward's palm was cut in current airing because the scene is considered harmful and inappropriate there. Although, this scene was remained in the past.
• "Ripped Pants" - The Ripped Pants song which normally starts at the end of the episode is cut for unknown reasons. It is assumed this was done to save time. However, this wasn't done when Global TV rebrand into GTV.
• "Scaredy Pants" - The scene where SpongeBob's insides are revealed are cut possibly due of gruesome.
• "I Was a Teenage Gary" - The end scene where SpongeBob and Squidward transforms into snails are not shown for unknown reason, and is cut from airings although this scene remained in the past.
• "Suds" - All live action's scene are cut in current airing because Indonesian Broadcasting Commission warned it although this scene was aired normally in the past.
  • However, GTV aired this scene few times.
• "Texas" - The scene where Sandy is singing the song Texas Song has been removed to save time. Although, this scene was remained in the past.
• "Fools in April" - The scene where Squidward plays his April Fools prank on SpongeBob are cut because the scene may be imitated by viewer.
  • Currently, this episode never aired again due of prank theme as prank content may considered controversy in Indonesia. However, its sister episode is still having re-airs.

Season 2

• "Your Shoe's Untied" - The scene where SpongeBob is watching a sea anemone "dancing" was sometimes removed for saving time or for it being considered inappropriate there.
• "Squid's Day Off" - The scene where SpongeBob tries to pull Mr. Krabs' claw, which is stuck in the sink, is cut during GTV airing because the scene is presumed to contain sexual content.
• "Christmas Who?" - All live action segments are cut for unknown reasons. However, it was assumed it was done to save time.
  • Currently, this episode never aired again. This may be because not all residents in Indonesia does not celebrate Christmas. However, its sister episode is still having re-airs.
• "Procrastination" - The scene where SpongeBob looks out the window, all his friends are there, and Patrick rubbing Sandy with Sun Lotion then says, "Come on, SpongeBob!" and SpongeBob exercising were cut in past airing due to save time for ads. For few times, because the runtime is lengthened, that scene has remained although only shows a few times. Sometimes during re-airs, this scene is not cut.
  • The scene where SpongeBob imagining a car crash isn't cut.
• "Squid on Strike" - The scene where Squidward pull SpongeBob body until SpongeBob's skeleton and internal organs are visible are cut due to gruesome sightings.

Season 3

• "My Pretty Seahorse" - The scene where Patrick tries to enter a hat shop at the end of the episode is sometimes is cut. This is probably due to ads causing time constraint.
• "Just One Bite" - Squidward enters Krusty Krab normally without the controversial deleted torture scene.
• "Krusty Krab Training Video" - The scene where the register falls on Squidward's head are cut because to prevent viewers to imitate it. The scene where Hoopla was hit by a brick are cut for unknown reasons.
  • Although, this scene were remained during Global TV.
• "Party Pooper Pants" - All of the Patchy scenes are cut for unknown reasons.
  • However in the past, all Patchy scenes remained normally.
• "Ugh" - Few scenes were cut during GTV's airing due of inappropriate scene such as,
  • SpongeGar woke up and then hit by a rock because of the noisy alarm
  • SpongeGar and Patar hurt themselves
  • Squog hits Patar and SpongeGar with a club stick
  • Patar eats a stick
  • Squog fights with SpongeGar until they club-whacking each other
  • Squog being struck by a lightning.
• "Krabby Land" - The scenes where SpongeBob gets injured are cut in GTV's airing, presumably because the scene considered inappropriate there so the audience especially children would not imitate SpongeBob's injuries.
  • Currently, this episode and its sister episode never aired again because both episodes consists violence scene.
• "Plankton's Army" - The scene where Plankton's family mentions root beer are cut. This scene is cut because root beer considered unhealthy or referencing unhealthy/alcohol drink being considered illegal in Indonesia. Although, this scene was remained in the past.
• "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" - The scene where SpongeBob steps on Tattletale Strangler's eyes with spiky shoes are cut due of inappropriate for children. The scene when Strangler punches SpongeBob also cut due of violence.

Season 4

• "Bummer Vacation" - The scene where SpongeBob wears Patrick's costume was cut possibly because the episode itself was being too long even the episode itself often paired with ads. It assumed that Indonesian Broadcasting Commission considered this scene was gruesome.
• "Squidtastic Voyage" - The scene where Squidward swallows his clarinet were cut due to it being gruesome.
  • Currently, this episode and its sister episode never aired again because it's sister episode consists inappropriate scene.

Season 5

• "Atlantis SquarePantis" - All of the live action segments are cut to save time for advertisements.
• "The Inmates of Summer" - The scene with SpongeBob and Patrick inside of a hole in the ground was skipped to the prisoners mining the rocks because the scene was being really similar to the 1965 infamous and controversial Thirtieth of September Movement incident, abbreviated as G30S. The incident, masterminded by the Communist Party of Indonesia, caused a huge political and social turmoil in Indonesia, resulting anything related to communism or the party is strictly prohibited.
  • However, Indonesian dubbed of this scene remained in Nickelodeon Southeast Asia.
• "The Battle of Bikini Bottom" - Many scenes where SpongeBob and Patrick are fighting are cut. These may be due to them being gruesome and showing gross imagery. The scenes that are cut includes the following,
  • SpongeBob licking an ice cream from Patrick's hand,
  • Patrick putting his hand on SpongeBob's tongue,
  • Patrick holding SpongeBob's eyes as grenades,
  • Patrick transforming into a cannon and shooting his brain, scenes revolving around Patrick's toenail,
  • Patrick picking on his nose, and Patrick having onions on his eyes are cut.
• "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" - The scenes that are cut are scenes with Patchy, SpongeBob angering Sandy, and the end scene where Squidward puts his brain on a trash can are cut.
• "The Two Faces of Squidward" - A small bit of scenes where SpongeBob slams Squidward with a door are cut because it considered harmful to imitate. The scenes only show Squidward's transformation into becoming handsome, but the bit where SpongeBob slams Squidward using a door are cut because it considered harmful to imitate.
• "Stanley S. SquarePants" - The scene where SpongeBob and Stanley visited Sandy's House and SpongeBob in Mr. Krabs' office to talk about Stanley are cut for unknown reason.

Season 6

• "House Fancy" - The sofa-moving scene that makes Squidward's toenail ripped are cut for being considered inappropriate there and Indonesian Broadcasting Commission warned it and considered that scene was being too sadist.
• "The Splinter" - The scene where SpongeBob pulls the splinter in which reveals his skeleton are cut due to gruesome.
• "Slide Whistle Stooges" - The scenes after Squidward tries to talk with the whistle, yelling, are cut for unknown reasons.
• "Sun Bleached" - The soda commercial scene is cut for unknown reasons.

Season 7

• "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy" - The scene where Sandy appears without her fur and Plankton goes to Krusty Krab with Sandy's fur were censored and blurred due to nudity.
  • Currently, this episode along with its sister episode never aired again. It is most likely because both of these episodes have scenes considered inappropriate there.
• "Hide and Then What Happens?" - The scenes where SpongeBob goes into The End of the World is cut for unknown reasons.

Season 8

• "Oral Report" - The scene where SpongeBob sees Mrs. Puff bikini is cut due to nudity.
  • Currently, this episode never aired again. However, its sister episode is still airing.
• "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" - The scenes with Patchy the Pirate are cut, presumably to save time for advertisements.
  • Currently, this episode never aired again. This may be because most residents in Indonesia does not celebrate Christmas.

Season 10

• "Whirly Brains" - The scenes where they open their heads to reveal their brains are cut due to violence, and it may make children imitate it.
  • Currently, this episode and its sister episode never aired again. It may be because both episodes has violent scenes.
• "Snooze You Lose" - The scene where SpongeBob pours hot coffee on Squidward's lips are cut due to violence.
• "Krusty Katering" - The scene where a children sneezes on the Krabby Patties are cut due to the scene being considered as disgusting and it may fear that viewer to imitate it.
• "Life Insurance" - The scene of pillow-fight, hit with a rake, SpongeBob and Patrick got lightning and Squidward on the Sushi Maker was removed due of violence and time saving for ad-breaks.

Season 11

• "Shopping List" - Some scenes are cut for unknown reasons.

Season 12

• "SpongeBob's Bad Habit" - Some scenes are cut for unknown reasons.
• "Lighthouse Louie" - The scene where SpongeBob cleaning the lighthouse was cut on the February 3, 2022 airing.
• "Bubble Bass's Tab" - Some scenes are cut for unknown reasons.
• "Kooky Cooks" - The food fight scene is cut for unknown reasons presumably fear that viewers may imitate the scene.

Season 13

• "Upturn Girls" - the scene where Narlene eating a gum is cut because the scene is gross.

Notes

• Most of episodes that have scenes considered "inappropriate", "dangerous", or trivial were skipped or cut in Indonesia due to the overly sensitive and restrictive Indonesian Broadcasting Commission that is known to issue sanctions to channels that are airing foreign cartoons over the most trivial scene. Several instances of the "inappropriate" and "dangerous" scenes being censored are:
  • Characters falling from a height.
  • A character is punching other character (even when the punch are light-hearted).
  • A character is hurting themselves, even when it happened by accident.
• The dub sometimes muted words such as "moron," "dead," "die," "stupid," and "dumb" because these words are considered profanity in Indonesia. Oddly enough, the word "idiot" is not censored.
• The dub would also muted animal names that are commonly used as profanity in Indonesian language, such as "dog", "pig", and "monkey" even when they are not used in any inappropriate context. One example of this is during a scene in Perfect Chemistry in which SpongeBob volunteered to be a "test monkey". Although the word "monkey" is used in animal context, the word is muted every single time it is mentioned.
• The reason commercial ads are often airing in the middle of episode's scene and more ads when SpongeBob aired in Global TV/GTV is mainly for increasing profits and the policy of GTV itself.
  • However, this causes time constraints, and few scenes of episodes are skipped. Most songs are also skipped due to this. Although in very rare occurrence, they would air songs undisturbed.
  • This is a common occurrence in most foreign cartoons airing in Indonesia and not only happening in GTV.

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Trivia

• Currently, SpongeBob SquarePants is the longest-running Nickelodeon cartoon that is still airing in Indonesia.
• Unlike most other SpongeBob SquarePants international dubs, this version retains the original English title.
  • The same can be applied to the Dutch, European Portuguese, Filipino, Irish, Malay, and Urdu dubs.
• There are some special airing programs created by the channel where SpongeBob was aired in GTV, which are:
  • Happy Bareng SpongeBob (Happy with SpongeBob) which aired in weekend morning. Currently, this special is no longer aired in favor of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, which wasn't an actual movie. Instead, it's a GTV's cartoon block that randomly picked regular episode with translated or custom episode's name without an intro (restored in 2023 but the intro's video not fully shown), title cards (sometimes the title card is shown) or credits (possibly for saving time or possibly to resemble an actual movie).
    • The reason and the purpose that GTV created this special airing is because GTV also airs non-Nickelodeon program which SpongeBob is currently one of two Nickelodeon's cartoon air on that channel and GTV want to combine all cartoon program on that channel into single block which also extending "Big Movies" name since "Big Movies Platinum" was very success to increase GTV's profit, and GTV want to air episode randomly ordered instead ordered episode.
    • Also, GTV added a custom Indonesian title name of episode which the title name is come from one of the scene and the reason is for increasing rating and share numbers. This special airing have become GTV's mainstay in ratings during the daytime slot.
    • In order to maintain a cartoon show variations in GTV, this special's airing was often aired with another cartoon.
  • Perangkap (Trap), is a 30-minute program that shows how to make a trap that was voiced by Ade Kurniawan (Indonesian voice actors of SpongeBob in Season 1 - ½ of Season 5 episodes) with Dewi Sartika (a female Indonesian voice actor of Nobita in Doraemon anime television series). Currently, this show is no longer airing.
  • Hypening, a program that shows variety of funny videos and news magazine (at some new episodes) that was voiced by Ade Kurniawan too.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was aired only on TransTV. However, the TransTV version have a different dub than the GTV dub.
• Jumali Prawirorejo, the voice actor of Squidward in Indonesian dub, used his Squidward voice in the Indonesian dub of Avengers: Infinity War to voice Ebony Maw, who's jokingly called Squidward by Tony Stark in the movie.

External links

• Official YouTube Channel Nickelodeon Bahasa

Gallery

Iklan Spongebob versi anak sd , Globaltv ( 2013 )

SpongeBob SquarePants ads on Global TV (2013)

References

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