COMPLEX THINKING PATTERN IN INDONESIAN NEWS TEXT ABOUT SOLVING JUVENILE DELINQUENCY ‘KLITHIH’ IN JOGJAKARTA INDONESIA

Abstract

This study is conducted to perceive the pattern of complex thinking in Indonesian news text about solving juvenile delinquency ‘KLITHIH’ occurred in Jogjakarta Indonesia as one of special areas in Indonesia in culture and in education.  The data are explored by using systemic functional linguistics related with the rhetorical meaning in major clause in simplex clause and in complex clause. The findings are reported that the news is dominant to use complex clause as much as 92%. The complex clauses consist of 17% written in expansion, 4% written in interdependence, and 79% written in projection. The study gives contribution in linguistics in seeing social and education problem solving to see the complex thinking uttered by the government officials. Originality of this study is to show the pattern of complex thinking in news text about solving juvenile delinquency that can give impact to the society.  This study has lack that it only analyzes in textual analysis. It recommends to observe the data about juvenile delinquency in the direct field for the future research in different point of view.