Pokemon Dubbing Indonesia Apr 2026

"Jangan sentuh temanku!"

But the voices. The voices were where the magic, and the chaos, truly lived.

The producer was silent for a long time. Then he laughed.

And in that split second of pure, unscripted improvisation that Risa fights to keep in every session, Pikachu screams: Pokemon Dubbing Indonesia

For three years, Pokémon in Indonesia went underground. Kids traded bootleg manga and whispered about the "old voices." Then, in 2005, a legitimate miracle occurred. , a new free-to-air network, purchased the official rights to dub Pokémon: Advanced Generation .

A young woman named Risa Sarasvati, a theater student who worked part-time at a radio station, auditioned. She was a die-hard fan of the old VHS dubs. She remembered Pak Bambang’s gruff Satoshi. For her audition, she read a scene where May (Haruka) first sees her Torchic.

"Your Pikachu," he said, "is very rude. And very loved. Continue." "Jangan sentuh temanku

The call went out. They needed voice actors. And they needed them fast.

The boy’s mother, who watched the old VHS dubs as a child, hears it. She smiles. The voice has changed. The technology has changed. But the soul—the loud, chaotic, loving, Indonesian soul—is exactly the same.

(Don't touch my friend.)

They had no script guides. No directors. They translated on the fly, often making up dialogue when they couldn't understand the English slang.

Risa fought back. She invited the Japanese producer to a school in a Jakarta kampung . They sat on a plastic tarp, eating kerupuk , and watched a room full of 50 children scream with joy every time Risa’s Pikachu shouted, "Satoshi, jangan bodoh, belok kiri!" (Satoshi, don't be stupid, turn left!).

It was controversial. Purely, sacrilegiously controversial. Purists raged on early internet forums (which loaded slowly on Telkomnet Instan). "Pikachu isn't supposed to talk !" they cried. Then he laughed

And somewhere in Glodok, an old man turns up his hearing aid, listens to the faint echo of a cartoon battle from a phone stall, and whispers to himself: "Pika-pika, Nak. Pika-pika."