How to get a Zoom transcript in Indonesian

What Zoom does offer in Indonesian

Live captions. Zoom’s automated captions list Indonesian (Zoom Support: automated captions), so you can read the call as it happens. Since May 2026 captions are a live feature only and cannot be saved after the meeting (Zoom Support: May 2026 changes).

Translated captions from Indonesian exist on Business Plus and Enterprise plans, or with the Translated Captions add-on (Zoom Support: translated captions). They are live and are not saved either.

The in-meeting transcript. The host can turn on Zoom’s meeting transcript, and participants can request it (Zoom Support). Zoom’s help page for it does not publish a language list, so we do not claim it works in Indonesian.

What people try instead

• Changing the transcript language. The host can change the language of a cloud-recording transcript and have it made again, but only to one of the 19 languages. Indonesian is not one of them.
• Keeping the English transcript. A cloud recording is transcribed in English by default. Run on Indonesian speech, that file does not give you what was said.
• Uploading a recording to a transcription service. It needs a recording, which the host owns, and a step after every call. Everyone on the call has to agree to being recorded.
• Asking the host. If you are a participant, you get Zoom’s files only if the host records, turns on the transcript and shares it.

Who needs this

Indonesian startups, agencies and the regional teams of international companies hold their meetings in Bahasa Indonesia, with plenty of English words — “meeting”, “deadline”, “follow up” — mixed in. The summary often has to go to a manager in Singapore or further away.

How Trippi Notes writes an Indonesian transcript

1. 1Open Zoom in the browser. Click the meeting link, cancel the prompt to open the app and choose Join from your browser. The host or admin can switch this link off; then ask them to allow it.
2. 2Click the Trippi Notes icon. Click the icon in the Chrome toolbar once the call starts. Chrome lets the extension hear the tab only after that click.
3. 3Set Indonesian as the language you hear. Choose Bahasa Indonesia on the language bar. It is a hint, not a lock: if someone switches to English, that is written down too.
4. 4Turn on translation if you want it. Tick translation and pick the language you read best. Each line then gets a second line in that language.
5. 5Read the notes after the call. The transcript with names and times, a summary, tasks with owners and a follow-up draft are in your journal.

The transcript is written in Indonesian, as it was said, with the speaker’s name and the time on every line. The summary is written in the language you read: the one you translate into, or your browser’s language if translation is off. No bot joins the call and no participant is added. Still, tell people you are taking notes. It is good manners, and in some places it is the law: AI note taker consent.

What a line looks like

Dewi, 10:35
Kami akan mengirim penawaran baru paling lambat hari Jumat.We will send the new offer by Friday at the latest.

The Indonesian line is what was said; the line under it is the translation, shown when translation into English is on. After the call, a line like this becomes a decision or a task with an owner in the summary, and Ask AI answers questions about the call with quotes that jump back to the moment.

Notes on Indonesian

• Indonesian or Malay. The two are close, but they are separate entries in the Trippi Notes list: Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu. Pick the one people in the call actually speak.
• English terms. Indonesian business speech borrows English freely. Add product and client names to the glossary, so recognition gets a hint and the summary spells them one way.

Indonesian on the other platforms

Google Meet has the same gap: Google Meet transcript in Indonesian. Teams does: Indonesian is on its list of spoken languages, if the organizer’s policy allows transcription. The whole picture is in the language table.