INDONESIAN NEWSPAPERS

Nowadays, there are a great number of newspapers published in Indonesia, almost in each province, one or more are circulated every day.

There are two kinds of newspaper. They are national and regional ones. The national ones report what happened in whole provinces and the regional ones report what happened in the certain provinces but both of them sometimes describe what happened in our country and the situations in the other country.

The arrangement of the newspapers generally consists of headlines, articles, classified ads and sports. The headlines usually inform the government programmer or the people’s life, the articles contain the people’s life, religion, law, crime and the others, classified ads often inform the people’s business and the sports inform a lot of kinds of sports which the people play and the names of sport men or sport women and their achievements. And the writing of the newspapers are not the same as the books. In one page is not full for one topic but more than one topics and it consists of columns. One topic can consist of one or more columns and if it is too long, it must be continued to another page.

Whatever forms and kinds of newspaper, the press must prepare the news as interesting as possible for the readers and don’t forget to do our president’s message that “Indonesia press must inform the development of information which is not contrary to Pancasila and UUD 1945”.

Although there are a lot of kinds of newspaper, all of them are important for us to read to get a lot of information and increase our knowledge.