Indonesian Translation Services
DHCTranslations translates Indonesian documents in the US, and the word that decides the name is the small one in the middle: bin or binti marks a father's name on some papers and is absent from others, so a US form filled in from one document agrees with nothing else in the file. A document costs $54 with the statement and PDF.
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Indonesian documents we translate for US files
Birth certificate
The civil registration entry, with the register number, the place of birth and the parents as recorded.
Family card
The household card, listing each member, the relationship and the family number the office issued.
Marriage book
The religious affairs booklet, translated page by page, including entries added after the wedding.
Marriage certificate
The civil registry record, with the registrar, the witnesses and the date of registration.
Police clearance
The police certificate, with its reference and the six-month window it is usually issued for.
Diploma
The diploma with the institution, the field of study and the year of award as conferred.
Transcript
A course-by-course transcript, with the credits and the grading scale the institution used.
School certificate
A school leaving record, with the subjects, the marks and the examination year as printed.
Court papers
A religious or civil court decision, with the case number, the parties and the date it took effect.
Medical records
Clinic letters, operation notes and vaccination entries, with an Indonesian diagnosis written out.
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What a certified Indonesian translation costs
Certified translations start at $54 per document: from $0.12 per word after the first 400 words into English, and from $0.14 per word for English into another language, with some pairs quoted higher.
Certification is the translator's signed statement, and it is included in the price.
A translation for USCIS, a US court or a US university is certified by the translator's signed statement, and nothing further is added to the quote.
$54
From, per document
$0.12+
Per word after 400, into English
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Certified PDF, often the same day when ordered before 4pm ET, with printed copies available on request.
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What a certified Indonesian translation is checked for
A US reader sees a name with an extra word in it and has to decide which part is the surname. The certificate answers that once, for the whole file, rather than leaving each page to be interpreted on its own.
What the certification includes
- Signed statement of accuracy: the translator's name, signature and date, their CIOL or ITI membership number, our company stamp and our contact details.
- The patronymic is named: where the document attaches the father's name with bin or binti, the translation says so rather than presenting the word as a middle name or a surname.
- The book is read whole: a marriage book is translated page by page, because the entries after the first record changes of status that a single scanned page hides.
- Certified PDF: the certified file is emailed at no extra cost, which is what a US filing accepts. A printed set can be arranged if a receiving body insists on paper, and is quoted per order.
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The word that means "son of"
A religious affairs office writes a person's name with the father's attached by bin for a man and binti for a woman, and a passport often prints the name without it. Neither is wrong, and both name the same person, but a US form has three fields and will treat the extra word as part of the surname unless somebody says what it is.
Birth certificate
- On the Indonesian document
- akta kelahiran
- Issued by
- the civil registration office
Family card
- On the Indonesian document
- kartu keluarga
- Issued by
- the village or district office
Marriage book
- On the Indonesian document
- buku nikah
- Issued by
- the religious affairs office, for a Muslim marriage
Marriage certificate
- On the Indonesian document
- akta perkawinan
- Issued by
- the civil registration office
Police clearance
- On the Indonesian document
- surat keterangan catatan kepolisian
- Issued by
- the police
Diploma
- On the Indonesian document
- ijazah
- Issued by
- the institution that awarded it
Transcript
- On the Indonesian document
- transkrip nilai
- Issued by
- the school or the university
Three details decide how an Indonesian file reads. The marriage book is a booklet, not a form, and the pages after the first record later events, so a scan of the front page alone can miss a divorce or a second marriage. A married woman usually keeps her own name, so a US form expecting a change will not find one. And records from the colonial period are written in Dutch, while religious court papers are in Arabic, both of which are translated as printed.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“A certificate carrying one name only was translated with the name left whole rather than split, and the university accepted it without a query.”
Rina P.
“The birth certificate came back with the register number and the district stamp translated, and the visa office accepted it without a query.”
Dewi S.
“The family card and the birth certificate were translated together, with the identity number kept whole, and the embassy accepted the file without a query.”
Budi H.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Indonesian documents sent from anywhere in the United States. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations handles Indonesian documents in the US, including civil registry certificates, religious affairs books and diplomas, and each translation carries a signed statement naming the translator.
It joins a person to their father, bin for a man and binti for a woman, and it is written on religious affairs papers more often than on a passport. It is neither a middle name nor a surname, and the translation says which part of the name it is.
DHCTranslations charges $54 for a document up to 400 words, then $0.12 per word into English or $0.14 from English into Indonesian. The statement and the PDF come with the document.
No. A married woman in Indonesia usually keeps her own name, and the marriage record does not create a new one. A US form that assumes a change will find no such entry, and the certificate states the position plainly.
Because civil registration in the colonial period was kept in Dutch, and those records are still the only ones that exist for the period. They are translated as printed, with the office and the register named.
It is translated from the Arabic as it stands, with the court, the case number and the date identified, and the certificate says which language the original used so a reader is not surprised by it.
All of them. The first page records the marriage and the later pages record what happened after it, including a divorce or a further marriage, so a scan of the cover alone can hide the part a reader most needs.
USCIS reads the full English text with a translator's signed statement, and both arrive with the order. Send the document as issued, including any page that carries a stamp or a photograph.
The diploma and transcript are translated course by course, with the Indonesian scale noted where the institution used it, so the evaluator can judge the equivalence without converting anything.
Yes. DHCTranslations charges $0.14 per word from English into Indonesian, written by a native speaker rather than adapted from Malay.
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