ANALYSIS OF INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN THE JAKARTA POST EDITORIAL “RAMADAN DURING A PANDEMIC”

Each text has interpersonal meaning that varies according to the circumstances of its social purpose and context. This research aims to explore Interpersonal meaning in the Jakarta Post editorial text to see how the author reports the issue. The objectives of this research are to find how the interpersonal meaning is applied and how it influences readers. This research uses descriptive qualitative research as the research method. The data in this research is an editorial text entitled “Ramadan During a Pandemic” from Jakarta Post published in April 2020. This research uses a systemic functional linguistic approach by Halliday. In this research, the first data are analyzed based on the interpersonal meaning theory, which leads to define the mood constituent, finite, and mood system. At the end, the researcher analyzes the genre and ideology of the author. The results of this research are as follows. First, the mood system most used in the text is declarative clause which indicates that the author writes some statements in order to give information related to the issue to readers. Then, the researcher finds that the most frequent subject used in the text is We. It indicates the author and the readers are involved in the text. Next, for finite, the present tense is one of tenses that is used most in the text, which indicates that the author gives information about the current situation and phenomena nowadays. Then, median is the most modality values that appear in the text, and the most popular expression is Should which means giving suggestions. Second, the genre of the text is analytical exposition. It functions to inform the readers about the issue and to emphasize the author’s point of view. Last, right protagonist is the ideology of the author. This means that the author supports the issue that is published