Claims of Policy in opinion column of the Jakarta Post

ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the claim of policy on Jakarta post by using writing analysis. The researched is interested in analyzing the opinion on The Jakarta Post especially on claim of policy in term of poiitics policy. The objectives of this study are to describe the way claim of policy presented in opinion column of the Jakarta post. And to describe the way of claim of policy defended

In this research the researcher uses descriptive qualitative design, because the researcher deals with the data that are in the form of words, rather than numbers and statistics. Therefore, this research used descriptive qualitative design, in which the data were analyzed and interpreted based on theory claim of policy with writing approach.

The data source in this research is the claims of policy in opinion column of The Jakarta Post published from Ist to 30th April 2006. using several steps; first of all the researcher categorizes th data into three categories which are Introductory Paragraph, Main Paragraph, and Concluding Paragraph, the data of each categories are presented analyzed and concluded, after the data of the whole categories have already been presented analyzed and concluded, the researcher makes tentative conclusion and continued by making conclusion from the result of analysis and find out how claims of policy were used in the opinion column of the Jakarta Post in term of politics policy.

From the whole data presented and analyzed the researcher concludes that the most of the writers of opinion column of The Jakarta Post use funnel type of introductory paragraph, and explicitly state his claim in introductory paragraph. Just one of them does not states the claim explicitly. In defending the claim, most of them use evidence in type of opinion to convince the reader that his claim is true. In concluding paragraph the writer usually express his hope and gives suggestion related to the topic, otherwise gives warning.