THE PROCESS IN EDITORIAL OF THE JAKARTA POST

This research was conducted to discover the types of the Process, the most dominant types of Process, and the implication of the dominant process in editorial of The Jakarta Post on the political topics. It was a descriptive qualitative design. The analysis was based on ten editions of The Jakarta Post during January 2012 till March 2012 and there were 402 processes in 402 clauses. The findings show that only five types of Process occurred, namely Material Process (62.18%) from 250 clauses, Relational Process (26.86%) from 108 clauses, Verbal Process (5.72%) from 23 clauses, Mental Process (3.23%) from 13 clauses, and Existential Process (1.99%) from 8 clauses. Material Process was the dominant one because it indicated activities or events that happen in the outside world of human being. Furthermore, for the editorial of The Jakarta Post presented a report of an action, so the physical or action verbs are mostly used as the representation of the physical experience of human being.