Answer:

News Report 2

Fire erupts at illegal oil well in Indonesia

26 April 2018 — 10:26am
Jakarta: A fire erupted at an illegal oil well site in Indonesia's northernmost
province on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 40 others,
some of whom were badly burnt, authorities said.
The fire broke out around 1.30am at a backyard well in a village in Aceh province,
on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, according to the National Disaster
Management Agency.
Authorities were still trying to determine what had caused the fire. Local news
reports said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker smoking
a cigarette.
Television news footage and photos showed flames rising at least 10 metres into
the air in the farming village of Pasir Putih in East Aceh district, which is about
1600 kilometres north-west of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
Villagers had gathered at the well shortly after midnight, carrying buckets, jars and
barrels, in hopes of collecting crude oil after being told about a massive spill there,
according to the disaster agency.
"A group of people came to gather up oil and they weren't supposed to be there,"
the disaster agency said in a statement.
At least five homes were gutted by the fire, the agency said. Firefighters and other
emergency personnel, along with villagers, were still trying to contain the blaze on
Wednesday evening.
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the state-owned oil
company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial oil and gas
operations, to investigate the incident, said Agung Pribadi, a ministry spokesman.
"This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones responsible for it must be dealt with
by the law," he said.
Agung said the well was being operated by local residents, adding that he was not
sure if there were other illegal wells in the area.
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district police, told
reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of oxygen" in
the well to stop the fire. He confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he said
many villagers depended on it for their livelihood.
Illegal well operations are common in Indonesian regions where oil is present,
 including on the islands of Sumatra and Java. In some cases, the wells were
abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration that once ruled Indonesia, and are
now run by groups of villagers working around the clock.
"Oil doesn't come up to the surface easily in these old wells, so they try to pump it
up manually, then try to separate the oil by distillation in barrels, and that's where
they probably had the fire," said Mangantar Marpaung, former chief of the
Indonesian Mining Fire and Rescue Agency.
"Then they sell it as kerosene to the local market, or for motorcycles and fishing
boats," he said. "Those are their customers. The local governments know, but
because they can't provide any other jobs, they look the other way."
New York Times
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/fire-erupts-at-illegal-oil-well-in-indonesia-
20180426-p4zbq0.html
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Question 1:
1. Who might be interested in reading each news report? .

Target Readers:
 Acehnese community
 Fire Victim
 Indonesian Society
 Illegal Oil Drilling
Question 2:
2. What is each reporter’s position towards the issue? Provide the related words,
expressions, and sentences as evidence to support your argument.

The Reporter’s Position Towards The Issue:

The reporter has a neutral or objective position towards the event.

Reporting the event by just retelling the information provided by several sources
Evidence:
Report : report fire incidents in Jakarta based on information from the authorities
A fire erupted at an illegal oil well site in Indonesia's northernmost province on
Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 40 others, some of whom were
badly burnt, authorities said.
 report incidents about massive oil spills based on info from disaster agencies
Evidence:
 - Based on reports agung pribadi by , ...
 Villagers have gathered at the well shortly after midnight, carrying buckets, jars and
barrels, in hopes of gathering crude after being told about the massive spill there
 Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the state-owned oil
company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial oil and gas operations,
to investigate the incident
 Agung said the well was being operated by local residents, adding that he was not
sure if there were other illegal wells in the area.
- Based on reports Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro by ,…
 Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district police, told
reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of oxygen"
in the well to stop the fire. He confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he
said many villagers depended on it for their livelihood
- Based on reports Mangantar Marpaung by,...
 "Oil doesn't come up to the surface easily in these old wells, so they try to pump
it up manually, then try to separate the oil by distillation in barrels, and that's
where they probably had the fire.

 There is no evidence of offensive or emotional expressions used in the news

report.

Question 3:
3. How would each news report enlighten its readers? Provide the related words,
expressions, and sentences as evidence to support your argument.

A reader reads a news report to be enlightened. The manner in which the reader is
enlightened by the news include knowledge enrichment, emotional arousal, awareness
raising, etc.

Information obtained:

Reading the news report, the readers will have good understanding about:

1) The event or accident

Evidence:
 A fire erupted at an illegal oil well site in Indonesia's northernmost province on
Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 40 others, some of
whom were badly burnt
 Television news footage and photos showed flames rising at least 10 metres into
 the air in the farming village of Pasir Putih in East Aceh district, which is about
1600 kilometres north-west of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
 At least five homes were gutted by the fire, the agency said. Firefighters and
other emergency personnel, along with villagers, were still trying to contain the
blaze on Wednesday evening.
 the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of oxygen" in the well to
stop the fire
 "Oil doesn't come up to the surface easily in these old wells, so they try to pump
it up manually, then try to separate the oil by distillation in barrels, and that's
where they probably had the fire,"

2) The sources of the information:

Evidence:
 authorities said.
 Agung pribadi
 Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro
 Mangantar marpaung

3) The reason of Fire erupts at illegal oil well in Indonesia :

Evidence:
 Local news reports said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or
a worker smoking a cigarette ...
 Minyak tidak naik ke permukaan dengan mudah di sumur-sumur tua ini, jadi
mereka mencoba untuk memompanya secara manual, kemudian mencoba
memisahkan minyak dengan distilasi dalam barel, dan di situlah mereka
mungkin memiliki api

4) The time of the accident:

Evidence:
 Wednesday
 The fire broke out around 1.30am

5) The location of the accident:

Evidence:
 in Indonesia's northernmost province
 at a backyard well in a village in Aceh province, on the northern tip of
Sumatra Island
6) Fire erupts at illegal oil well in Indonesia accommodation in Aceh :
Evidence:
firefighters were trying to "break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire

7) The witnesses’ attempt to save Fire erupts at illegal oil :

Evidence:
 Firefighters and other emergency personnel, along with villagers, were still
trying to contain the blaze on Wednesday evening
 firefighters were trying to "break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the
fire

8) public response:
Evidence:
- "A group of people came to gather up oil and they weren't supposed to be there,"

News Report 3

Elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia

MALAYSIA: Four heavily armed poachers who

targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught, officials said Tuesday, the second such
arrest in less than two years.
Wildlife officials said the gang caught near the
town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of
Perak was found with deer antlers and suspected
tiger bones.

A joint police and wildlife department

investigation also led the agents to find an
elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby
forest with its tusks ripped out.

“This crew is notorious. They hunt elephants,”

wildlife department chief Abdul Kadir Abdul
Hashim told AFP.

“There are maybe two more [poaching] groups

[in the area]. We are working together with the
 police on this.”

A police statement said weapons including rifles

and homemade shotguns as well as animal snares
were found after they arrested the gang.

The elephant’s tusks were not found, with a

wildlife official believing that they were already
sold.

He added that the gang – all locals – were

believed to have been operating since 2009, and
were also active in the nearby state of Kelantan.

The arrests come a year after a seven-man

gang was arrested in Kelantan, with explosives,
guns and parts of tusks seized.. – AFP

(Taken from The Jakarta Post, Thu, March 15,

2018, p.10)

Answer :
1. Who might be interested in reading each news report? .

Target Readers:
 community and people of malaysia
 elephant owner

2. What is each reporter’s position towards the issue? Provide the related words,
expressions, and sentences as evidence to support your argument.

The Reporter’s Position Towards The Issue:

The reporter has a neutral or objective position towards the event.

Reporting the event by just retelling the information provided by several sources
Evidence:
officials said , the second such arrest in less than two years.
 Evidence:
Based on Wildlife officials said, the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the
nothern Malaysian state of Perak was found with deer antlers and suspected tiger
bones.

 wildlife department chief Abdul Kadir Abdul Hashim told AFP

“This crew is notorious. They hunt elephants,”.

“There are maybe two more [poaching] groups [in the area]. We are
working together with the police on this.”

 A police statement said weapons including rifles and homemade

shotguns as well as animal snares were found after they arrested the
gang.

There is evidence of offensive or emotional expressions used in the news

report.
Evidence
A joint police and wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find an
elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped out

Question 3:
3. How would each news report enlighten its readers? Provide the related words,
expressions, and sentences as evidence to support your argument.

A reader reads a news report to be enlightened. The manner in which the reader is
enlightened by the news include knowledge enrichment, emotional arousal, awareness
raising, etc.

Information obtained:

Reading the news report, the readers will have good understanding about:

1.The event or accident

Evidence:
 Wildlife officials said the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the nothern
Malaysian state of Perak was found with deer antlers and suspected tiger bones.
 elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped out.
  The arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with
explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized.
2.The sources of the information:
Evidence:
 officials said
 Wildlife officials said
 A police statement said
3.The reason of Elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia:
Evidence:
 They hunt elephant
 The arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan,
with explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized

4.The time of the accident:

Evidence:
 Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two years.
 all locals – were believed to have been operating since 2009
 The arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan
5.The location of the accident:
Evidence:
 Malaysia
 the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of
Perak
 The arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantans
6. The Accommodation Elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia

Evidence:
A joint police and wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find an
elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped out.

7. The witnesses’ attempt to catch Elephant poachers in Malaysia:

Evidence:
 the head of the wildlife department and police work together to capture elephant
hunters

8.public response:
Evidence:
 all locals – were believed to have been operating since 2009, and were also
active in the nearby state of Kelantan