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This situation really worsens and weakens KPK ‘s position as the powerful body
in eradicating corruption. If the KPK ‘s work is randomly and unwisely, the
defendant cannot be sentenced guilty by the court. For now, in accumulation, KPK
‘s great achievement is its working performance to detain at least 270 corruptors and to save this country
‘s wealth more than three billion rupiah over a decade.
One of the KPK ‘s major duties is to supervise other agencies authorized to
eradicate corruption. It is not possible for KPK if its authority is limited in the case to monitor the governance of the state also to wiretap every spoken and
written communication about suspects. The objection on surrendering its wiretapping authority neither to the courts nor to the supervisory body is
necessarily proposed to the political party leaders in the House of Representatives. In conclusion, it is important to underline, to put the name in
bold and highlight that ‗P‘ in the middle of ‗KPK‘ stands for ‗Corruption
Eradication Commission ‘ Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, not for ‗Protection‘
Komisi Perlindungan Korupsi. The implication of proposals stated above is that the emergence of
supervisory agencies is necessary to control KPK power. The House of Representatives mandates the establishment of an oversight council to monitor
the anti-graft body ‘s performance. This is considered as the contrary to the
ethos of corruption eradication. The Representatives propose that these supervisors should not derive from the active law enforcer elements. Otherwise,
the cooperative working partnership with BPK, BIN, National Police and NGOs like ICW nowadays seem insufficient. These proposals indicate that policy
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makers do not totally support the eradication corruption progress. In conclusion, this analysis stage needs an explanation how TJP reconstructed and
recontextualized the representation of corruption from one domain of discourse to another.
4.2.3 The Discourse or Semiosis
The third aspect of an obstacle to identifying the problem being tackled focuses on the relationship between discourse, semiosis and the text itself. In this
part of analysis, the researcher should find out not only the context that influences the text production but also the proper meaning itself text within
context. Hence, it is necessary also to understand that newspaper media like TJP suppress correspondingly the social subject. Its news stories evoke the
individual personality and aim to make a persuasive political text. Because of its transformation to form an interactional language, the researcher employs
Systemic Functional Grammar SFG analysis to find out the linguistic features
of the text in its representation of ‗corruption‘.
In the searching of semiosis itself which can create arbitrariness, SFG analysis can help the researcher to find the relationship between the signifier the form of
linguistic sign and the signified the meaning expressed by a linguistic sign. By using SFG, some linguistic terminology can be described and interpreted.
According to Fairclough in Wodak 2001, Halliday ‘s SFG can represent
predictable linguistic characteristics: process, modality, and theme. Idioms, metaphors, proverbs and clichés can also be interpreted by employing SFG.
The linguistic characteristics of the process, mood and theme are analyzed firstly. Five processes are found frequently then. These processes can prove
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various language strategies by employing linguistic analysis. However, in the need to clarify clearly the findings, the researcher just selects one category of
linguistic evidence for every process that is found. It is typically used because this part of analysis needs only to look for the semiosis in the text itself.
The first process is material. The material process is a process of doing and happening. The process is usually indicated by a verb presenting an action, either
concrete or abstract. The participants in this process are indicated either Actor- Goal or Actor-Affected Scope, Recipient, Client and Attribute. For example, to
show the strategy that actor ‘s defiance andor scare of KPK detention is showed
by bold verbs in the clauses below. 30.
Apparently aware that he could be detained, graft suspect and former religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali declined to comply with the
Corruption Eradication Commission ‘s KPK summons on Wednesday,
arguing that the letter from the KPK had a minor typographical error. 3, I, A
31.
Former energy and mineral resources minister Jero Wacik also refused to come to the KPK last week to be questioned as a suspect in a graft case.
31, VIII, B Comment Adjunct of
‗apparently‘ appears in the beginning of sentence 26 and indicates as a mean of exchange. TJP journalists declare what they think, as the
language producers, the readers need to know about its belief concerning the corruption scandal of the former ministers. The presence of modality could
indicate writer‘s opinion that this action is possible to refer explicitly to the
object
‗he‘ corruptor. The process of declined to comply and refused to come define that corruptors are
the Actor of an action ‗defy and scare of KPK
‘. Passivization ‗be detained‘ determines that the Goal is affected by the absent Actor KPK, instead of avoiding it. Marked Interpersonal Themes
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energy and mineral resources minister ‘ or Jero Wacik are applied in the text to
indicate that these Actors has great symbolic capital. By using his capitals, especially economy, SDA can have the honor of
lawyer‘s assistance in this political arena. In the sentence 27,
‗to the KPK‘ is not categorized as Goal but Attribute. This Attribute refers to the Circumstance of Place represent the
destination of the movement. This participant is simply affected by the Actor ‗Jero Wacik‘ and of the process of doing ‗refused to come‘.
By employing the transitivity analysis, material process and its dynamic verbs can help the researcher to identify the factual action of defiance and
terrifying condition of detainment. Indicated by Actor-Goal participant, this process can show how TJP journalists frame KPK as the law enforcer doing
several strategically movements to execute the corruptors. The second dominant process at this point is verbal. This process can
represent actor‘s trivial things to avoid the law enforcement. The verbal process
is the process of verbal action of saying. It contributes to the creation of narrative by making it possible to construct dialogic passages. When narrative passages are
produced in conversation, verbal clauses are often used to develop dialogues. There are three participants typically involve in the process of verbal action of
‗Saying‘. Those are Sayer, Receiver, and Verbiage. For example, the verbal process can be used to show the language strategy of corruptor
‘s trivial things below.
32.
KPK spokesman Priharsa Nugraha lashed out at Suryadharma for
using the typographical error as an excuse to defy questioning. 31, XIII, A
33.
On Tuesday, his lawyer, Andreas Nahot Silitonga, insisted the
former chairman of the United Development Party PPP was too ill to meet with KPK investigators to complete his dossier. 7, II, B
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The bold verb ‗lashed out‘ refers to the emotional critical statements and ‗insisted‘
means the firm factual statements OALD8. A process above indicates the verbal process of
‗saying‘. These verbs illustrate a dialogic exchange representing the speaker and the addressee. The narrative passages are
constructed smoothly from the news producer and its readers. In sentence 32, Marked Interpersonal Theme is
‗KPK spokesman‘ also refers to Sayer
‗Priharsa Nugraha‘. Marked interpersonal theme considers being underlined because this theme can represent the Subject having
political modals and aims. The identifiable Verbiage is ‗for using the
typographical error as an excuse to defy questioning ‘ while ‗at Suryadharma‘ is
not a circumstantial element but Receiver of the message. In the sentence 33, Topical Theme must be contained only one in this constituent and is indicated
by ‗on Tuesday‘. Interestingly, this makes a mark that the interpretation of
sequential time is the most important information related to several trivial things to avoid the law enforcement. Interpersonal Theme of Vocative Adjunct is marked
by ‗his lawyer‘ while the Sayer is ‗Andreas Nahot Silitonga‘.
These two samples of sentences give evidence to a structure of ‗x‟ did say
to „y‟. The sayer-receiver relationship between ‗he‘ and other definite names
indicates the corruptor, on the other hand, ‗we‘ indicates KPK investigators.
This intentional style of writing can explain how TJP has its authority continuously and routinely to summarize the source texts such as wires,
interviews, reports, or press conferences and other media messages. In conclusion, the verbal process can help researcher, first, to find out the
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corruptor and anti-graft, and second, to identify their political strategy to win in the arena.
The third dominant process briefly representing the contradiction situation of the corruption object is relational. The relational process is a process from
action to being. This process deals with things which are stated to exist in relation to other things. The experiences of being are assigned attributes or
identities. There are two types of relational. The first is relational attributive which involves a relationship expressed by the verb be or a synonym, between
Carrier an independent nominal participant and Attributive indefinite nominal participant. This sub-type of the relational process means to clarify that
‗x carries the attribute a
‘. For example: 34.
the former chairman of the United Development Party PPP was too ill to
meet with KPK investigators ‘ 8, II, B
35.
―It is untrue that my client is afraid of being detained. 19, V, A
Linking verb in the clause is indicated as relational attributive. The linking verb in
here is used to express a condition OALD8. In this analysis of sentence 34, ‗the former chairman of the United Development Party PPP‘ is the attribute
while ‗too ill‘ is the carrier. The importance refers to the projection ‗to meet‘ and
the circumstance ‗with KPK‘. This relational process of attributive shows that the
bad illness of Attribute ‗SDA‘ come right after KPK summon him to come to the
commission ‘s office at Kuningan, South Jakarta. In the sentence 35, ‗my client‘ is
Carrier. Thereby referential-it emerges to clearly define Attribute of ‗untrue‘ and
‗afraid of being detained‘. This relational attributive process can identify the factual condition of SDA who was ill and not afraid of being detained. Next
