The Sequences of Events in ”The Jakarta Post” Headline News on The Fuel Price Increasing Issue

The objective of research is to find out how the sequences of events are realized on the headline news on the fuel price increasing issue which was written in the Jakarta Post, published in April 2012. The writer unfolds the sequences of events of the text through the figure of doing, figure of saying, figure of sensing and figure of being. The design of this research is text analysis by using systemic functional linguistic method (SFL). The data sources of this research are the headline news on the fuel price-increasing issue, written during April 2012. The data of this research is the sequences of events of the head line news on the fuel price-increasing issue, written in ‘the Jakarta Post’ during April 2012. The text is analyzed to know how the sequences of events of the text are realized through the figure of saying, figure of doing, figure of sensing, and figure of being. Based on analyzing the data, the result of the research shows that the sequences of events of the Jakarta Post Headline News on fuel price-increasing issue in April 2012 are specifically concerned in the process, which is the core of elements (participants, process, and circumstances). It is realized in 228 figures of doing, 48 figures of saying, 33 figures of sensing, and 30 figure of being. The author mostly used figures of doing to realize the events based on the analysis. Therefore, I suggest that the English learners can study more about Systemic Functional Linguistic (FSL). In addition, the lecturer of English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University should give more knowledge to their student about ideational meaning