Example of News Item

South Sumatra Protected Forest Case: DPR Admits Receiving Funds

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Several members of the House of Representatives (DPR) admit to receiving funds regarding the status change of protected forest in Air Talang Banyuasin, South Sumatra. The case has been investigated by the Commission to Eradicate Corruption (KPK).

Those who admit receiving the funds are Vice Chairman of the Forestry and Agricultural Commission, Suswono; a member of the forestry commission, Imam Suja; and a member of the faction from the National Awakening Party (PKB) Mufid Busyairi. They affirm the funds were returned to KPK. Suswono discloses receiving a traveler's check of Rp 150 million last year. “I returned it to KPK,” he said yesterday. Imam Suja acknowledges receiving a traveler's check of Rp 20 million and said that he had returned it to the KPK. “The KPK asked those who had received the funds to return it to the KPK,” said a politician from the National Mandate Party (PAN). Mufid Busyairi from the PKB faction said that he received a traveler's check in an envelope. “I thought it was a letter but it was a check of Rp 35 million,” he said. The check was cleared before being submitted to KPK.

The case of protected forests in Air Talang was revealed after KPK investigated the same case in Bintan, Riau archipelago, involving a member of the forestry commission, Al-Amin Nur Nasution. The commission inspected his office and other DPR members. They confiscated some documents related to the status change of Talang Air protected forest of 1,200 hectares into Tanjung Siapi-api harbor.

“This case is being investigated. That's all we can say for now,” said KPK deputy Chandra Hamzah to Tempo, last Wednesday. Other parliament's members said the KPK listed other recipients. It is alleged that one entrepreneur distributed money of Rp 10 billion to bribe parliament members when they visited Air Talang last year.

A member of the forestry commission, Ganjar Pranowo, denies this accusation, that he became a negotiator in the bribery incident. He said the action is not necessarily initiated by the recipient.

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News Item Text

Definition

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

Purpose

To inform the readers, listeners, or viewers about event of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

Text Organitation

1. Newsworthy Event

( Tells the event in summary form)

2. Background Event

( elaborates what happened, explains what caused in the accident)

3. Sources

(Comments by participant involved in the event)

Language Features

1. Information on yhe use headlines

2. The use of action verb,

(e.g.: bit, attack, curb, etc)

3. The use of saying verb

(e.g.: said, added, claimed, etc)

4. The use of passive sentence

(e.g.: Aceh was bit by Tsunami)

5. The use of adverb in passive sentences

(e.g.: The victims were badly injured)

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Procedure Text

Definition

Procedure is a text that show a process in order. Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a sequence of series.

Purpose

To help us do a task something. They can be set of instractions or direction.

Text Organitation

1. Goal

(The final porpuse of doing the instraction)

2. Materials

(It mean ingrediens, untensils, equipment to do instraction)

3. Steps

(A set of instruction to archieve the final purpose)

Language Features

1. Use of imperative

(e.g.:cut, don’t miss it!)

2. Use of action verb

(e.g.: turn, put, mix, etc)

3. Use of connectives

(e.g.:first, secondly, finally, then, etc)

4. Use of adverbial prhase

(e.g.: for five minute, 2 centimeters from..., etc)

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Descriptive Text

Definition

Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like.

Text Organitation

1. Identification

(Mention the name, occupation, profession, and career

2. Description

(Mention the physical features, the way he/she dresses and his /her personality)

Language F eatures

1. The use of adjective and compound adjective

(e.g.: Debby is brown-skinned, Debby looks attractive and beatiful)

2. The use of linking verb

(e.g.: She always appear young, Rizky is a model from Jakarta).

3. The use of attributive has and have

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Recount Text

Definition

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative.

Purpuse

To tell the reader what happened in the past through a sequence of event,

Text Organitation

1. Orientation

(Who were involved in the story, when, and where.

2. Events

(Tell what happened in a chronological order)

3. Evaluation

(Comments of the writer or speaker about the experience)

4. Re-Orientation(optional)

(The conclusion about the experience)

Language Feature

1. The use of noun and pronoun

(e.g.: David, his, we, etc)

2. The use of action verb

(e.g.: went, spent, played, etc)

3. The uses of Simple Past Tense

(e.g.: We went for a trip to the zoo)

4. The uses of time conjunction

(e.g.: and, but, after, before, etc)

5. The uses of adverb of phrase

(e.g.: in my house, two days ago, slowly, etc)

6. Uses of adjective

(e.g.: beatiful, lazy, clever, etc)

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