The Study of Systemic Functional Linguistic toward the Inaugural Address Text of President Joko Widodo

Language is a means of communication to express aims and objectives to addressees. It has a very important role in our life since language is used to convey message, sign, idea, feeling, and wish to make the communication run smoothly. Language is also said to be a semantic system for making meaning with other system for encoding the meanings it produces. According to Halliday, semantics does not simply refer to the meaning of words, but it is the entire system of meanings of a language. The meanings which he refers are encoded in wordings grammatical sequences, or ???syntagms???. Next, the relation between the meaning and the wording is not an arbitrary one, but the form of the grammar relates naturally to the meanings that are being encoded. Here, the functional grammar is designed to bring this out; it is a study of wording, but one that interprets the wording by reference to what it means (Halliday, 1990: XVll ).This paper discusses the inaugural address of Ir. H Joko Widodo, the President of the Republic of Indonesia. The study aimed to explain transitivity system focusing on ideational meaning in the address text. \ud In order to achieve the objectives of the study, Systemic Functional Linguistics theory, audio method and note taking technique are applied. The data were oral text obtained from internet in the form of video. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively.\ud The results of the analysis indicate that transitivity system focusing on ideational meaning consists of process, participant, and circumstance. Types of process are material, relational, verbal and mental. Of the 55 clauses in this study, material has the highest appearance, followed by behavioral, relational, verbal, and mental process respectively. Next, types of participant are actor, senser, sayer, phenomenon, token, receiver, client, recipient, beneficiary, attribute, and behaviour. Actor has the highest appearance. Types of circumstance are manner, cause, role, and location. Manner has the highest appearance and the lowest is location. Material which shows the highest appearance means that Joko Widodo put an emphasis on action in leading Indonesia in years to come. The lowest appearance of mental shows that Joko Widodo in his leadership did not fully involve mental relation to emotional. The most participants are actors. Joko Widodo in his address never mentioned himself, but always used the linguistic feature or the word ???we???, meaning that all Indonesian people and himself must be involved in carrying out his duty as a leader of Indonesian nation