NEWS ITEM TEXT

  

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. (News item adalah teks yang memberikan informasi tentang kejadian / peristiwa harian. Peristiwa ha rian ini dianggap pantas dijadikan berita atau [bisa dibilang] penting)

Artinya, jika ada suatu peristiwa pe nting yang patut diketa hui oleh banyak orang, maka peristiwa ini pantas dijadikan berita. Nah, teks berita itulah yang dinamakan dengan news item. Namun, jika ada peristiwa yang tidak pantas diketahui oleh orang banyak, maka pe ristiwa tersebut jelas tidak layak dijadikan berita.

Communicative Purpose:

Tujuan utama teks news item adalah untuk menuangkan informasi dalam bentuk berita (news). Berita tersebut dapat berupa hal-hal atau ke jadian yang pantas untuk diberitakan secara regional atau nasional.

Generic Structure:

1. Title
2. Summary of Events

Berisi ringkasan kejadian atau fenomena ya ng akan dilaporkan atau   diberitakan.

3. Background Events

Berisi penjelasan te ntang apa yang sebenarn ya terjadi, terhadap

siapa atau oleh siapa, dan dalam kondisi apa atau seperi apakah kejadian atau

fenimena tersebut.

4. Source (Person’s comment)

Berisi komentar dari orang yang terkait, yang biasa menjadi saksi dalam kejadian atau fenomena tersebut.

Grammatical Feature:

•  Past Tense

•  Past Perfect

•  Past  Continuous

 

 

Contoh News Item

Title

Big changes made after Aceh tsunami

Summary of events

It might be true that Indonesians tend to react, not anticipate. A warning system was built just after a big disaster occurred.

 Background of events

It was not until a year ago ±  after a 9.3 magnitude earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and p arts of north Sumatra  ± that the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) was equipped  with a system that could immediately report  such a disaster.

After the Aceh quake, the government, supported by Germany, Japan, China, and France, started building a system that by 2008 will connect 160 seismographic stations nationwide, BMG earthquake division head Suharjono said Tuesday.

When fully installed, the system will be able to report earthquakes and release tsunami warnings less than five minutes after the seismic event occurs.

Source (person’s comments)

As today, we only have 24 out of the 30 installed stations running well, ´ he added.

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Pamekasan student wins math contest in Romania

  Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior High School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International M athematics Contest he ld in Romania between March 22 to 29, Antara news agency reported.

  Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she had been able to win the competition, which she said had been very tight. Thank God I won. I will study harder, ´ she said.

Indonesia sent 10 students to the competition in Romania. Diva is not the first Pamekasa n student to win an international science competition. Oktavian Latief, a student from SMA Negeri 1 Pamekasan won gold at the International Physics Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohibul Maromi, won the same award in 2010.

I thank Diva for giving a good name to Indonesia and Pamekasan on the ³ internationa l stage, ´ Pamekasan Regent Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara.

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SBY, Boediono complete medical check-up

  Pre sidentia l candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his running mate Boediono completed their seven-hour medical check-up on Monday afternoon as part of requirement to contest the July 8 presidential election.

  The pair is thus the last candidate couple having their health screened at RSPAD Gatot Subroto army hospital after Jusuf Kalla-Wiranto and Megawati Soekarnoputri-Prabowo Subianto had theirs earlier on Sunday.

  "I consider this as a quite heavy test. We undergo almost seven hours of detailed and in-depth check-up, including on our mental health. We are now waiting for the result and hope we can pass the test," Yudhoyono told reporters after completing his medical check-up.

  Indonesian Medical Doctors Association (IDI) chairman Fahmi Idris said the medical check-up consisted of 10 tests – one mental and nine physical health tests, including neurology, eyes, heart and circulation system, digestive system, and urinology tests. He said the doctors team conducting the tests consisted of 43 doctors; 29 from the IDI and 14 from the army hospital.

  General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Syamsul Bahri said that the KPU was expecting to receive the results of the test on Tuesday. On Monday evening the commission plans to hold a plenary session to review the completion of requirements of all the presidential and vice presidential candidates.