4 Focus on circumstances: - Place
: There was a fire at the Plaza Hotel on Jalan Ciomas at 1:30
a.m. last night. Most of the 74 guests had already gone to bed
when the fire started on the third floor. The hotel manager, Mr. Iwan Sugiarto, said the fire had started in a guest bedroom.
By the time the fire department arrived, the fire had spread to the 4th and 5th floors of the hotel
- Time : There was a fire at the Plaza Hotel on Jalan Ciomas at 1:30
a.m. last night
- Quality : The guest was badly injured in the fire, but all the other guests
escaped safely
- Matter : The guest was badly injured in the fire, but all the other guests
escaped safely - Cause
: Mr. Sugiarto said the fire had caused over US70,000 worth of damage to the hotel.
After I analyzed the text sentence by sentence, I can get a conclusion that text 10 is well-structured since it has all elements of the lexicogrammatical
feature, that are; the use of material processes, the use of verbal processes, and sources. So, text 10 is good to be an example of News Item texts in the textbook.
4.1.11 Interpretation of Text 11 Pertamina Adds to Kerosene Supply
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government asked PT Pertamina to add to the kerosene supply in several areas in Indonesia.
The additional kerosene supply is being carried out starting today until the end of the year.
Pertamina‟s director of marketing and commerce, Ahmad Faisal said Vice President Jusuf Kalla ordered that the kerosene supply is
being added in order to meet the people‟s need. The extra kerosene is around 100.000 kiloliter up to the end of the year. He said after the
coordination meeting on the kerosene shortage in the Vice President palace yesterday.
Additional supply, Said Faisal will be done throughout the nation except Balikpapan and Sulawesi because in those areas there is no
kerosene shortage. According to him, the extra supply is only for subsidized and household kerosene.
Faisal said the additional kerosene will normalize distribution in two or three days. This will give kerosene subsidies by between Rp.
300 billion to Rp. 250 billion based on the assumption that the subsidy is between Rp. 3.000 and Rp. 5.000 per liter. Kerosene extra supply,
he said, has not been discussed with the House the important thing is,
meet the people‟s demand he said. According to him, the kerosene shortage occurred due to the
decrease of the quota allocation in the State Budget from 10 million kiloliter to 9.9 million kiloliter. At first, Pertamina estimated a
declining trend of kerosene consumption. However, after the fasting month, there was a kerosene demand hike. The worst shortage are in
Medan and Jakarta, especially, Cempaka Putih and Tomang.
Faisal argued that it is said the kerosene shortage is because Pertamina is in stock deficit. The kerosene stock is still enough for 29
days. What we do is only to limit sales volume he said. To prevent abuse, Pertamina cooperates with the Agency for Oil and natural gas
and the police.
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