THE ANALYSIS of-ing
FORMS
Police Chief
must Investigate
Brutality:
Bekasi Councilor
A Bekasi regency councilor is demanding that Jakarta Police
chief Insp. Gen. Unggung Cahyono investigate allegations of police brutality at
a demonstration held last Friday at the MM 2100 industrial zone in Cibitung,
Bekasi regency, West Java.
Nyumarno, who is a politician with the Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said on Monday that he had received numerous
complaints from the Bekasi Workers Alliance of police officers using
unnecessary force, damaging motorcycles and making groundless arrests. “These
people were merely staging a peaceful protest against the slow deliberation of
the minimum wage. Furthermore, they were protesting rumors that the
administration was going to set it at Rp 2.7 million [US$222] when they had
demanded Rp 3.3 million,” he told The Jakarta Post.
Nyumarno, who is also a leader of the Federation of
Indonesian Metal Workers Unions (FSPMI), said that five workers had been
arrested that day while driving on Jl. MH Thamrin Lippo Cikarang in Bekasi. The men told Nyumarno that they were
kicked and beaten by police officers before being taken in for
questioning. “I’m so confused, why were they arrested? Did they do
anything to provoke violence?” he said.
Nyumarno added that he visited the Bekasi regency police
station on the evening of the protest after the wife of one of the men arrested
asked him to help her husband get medical attention. However, Nyumarno said,
the police refused, telling him he had no authority at the police station.
“The
Jakarta Police chief must investigate these incidents and the policemen who
arrested, beat and deprived these poor men of medical attention,” he said.
Separately, Bekasi Police operational head Comr. Muryono told
the Post that necessary force had been used for several reasons, including the
fact that protestors had failed to notify police ahead of the demonstration.
“That
is illegal. Police are obliged to serve and protect demonstrators, but these
workers never told us about their protest. Furthermore, the motorcycles were
knocked over because they were blocking the Cibitung 2 toll road entrance.
Their actions were disturbing the locals,” he said.
More than 15,000 workers joined the protest, which Muryono
said grew increasingly boisterous in spite of police warnings. He said several
protestors stood on the hoods of cars encouraging others to resist the police
and that several police officers had been injured by rocks thrown by protestors.
“We
only arrested those who were obviously encouraging violence. However, we
eventually released them,” Muryono said.
Source : Jakarta Post newspaper, Page 9 ‖ Tues,
November 25, 2014, 10:55 AM
DISCUSSION
1. Paragraph 1
A Bekasi regency councilor is demanding that
Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Unggung Cahyono
Analysis:
The -ing form of "demanding" functions as verb
because the main verb is the sentences is "is demanding". And it
expresses an action. The sentences uses present continuous tense.
2. Paragraph 2
Nyumarno, who is a politician with the Indonesian
Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said on Monday that he had received
numerous complaints from the Bekasi Workers Alliance of police officers using
unnecessary force, damaging motorcycles and making groundless
arrests.
Analysis :
The –ing form of “damaging” function as noun. The sentences
uses
The –ing form of “making” function as noun.
3. Paragraph 2, four sentences
“These people were merely staging a peaceful
protest against the slow deliberation of the minimum wage. Furthermore,
they were protesting rumors that the administration was going to
set it at Rp 2.7 million [US$222] when they had demanded Rp 3.3 million,” he
told The Jakarta Post.
Analysis:
The –ing form of “staging” function as verb and it
expresses an action. There is a to be(i.e. were) that precedes the v-ing
“staging”. the sentence pattern: Subject (people) + to be (were) + v-ing
(staging). The sentences uses past continuous tense.
The –ing form of “was going” function as verb. The
sentences above uses past continuous.
4. Paragraph 3
Nyumarno, who is also a leader of the Federation of
Indonesian Metal Workers Unions (FSPMI), said that five workers had been
arrested that day while driving on Jl. MH Thamrin Lippo
Cikarang in Bekasi.
Analaysis:
The -ing form of “driving” functions as a noun. After in the sentence above is a preposition, not a conjunction because there is no "subject + to be" before the v-ing “driving”. Therefore, the v-ing "driving" is a gerund that located after the preposition “while”.
5. Paragraph 3, second sentences
The men told Nyumarno that they were kicked and beaten by
police officers before being taken in for questioning.
Analysis:
The –ing form of “questioning” functions as gerund. the sentence there is no "subject + to be" before the v-ing “quetioning". Gerunds can follow a preposition, infinitives cannot.
6. Paragraph 5
Separately, Bekasi Police operational head Comr. Muryono
told the Post that necessary force had been used for several reasons, including the fact that protestors had failed to
notify police ahead of the demonstration
Analysis:
The -ing form “including” has a function as a preposition.
The –ing form usually has a function as noun, adjective, or verb, but the -ing
form “including” has a function as preposition.
7. Paragraph 5
Furthermore, the motorcycles were knocked over because they were blocking the Cibitung 2 toll road entrance.
Their actions were disturbing the locals,” he said.
Analysis :
The –ing form of “blocking” function as verb. The sentence
pattern: subject (they) + to be (were) + v –ing (blocking). The sentences above
uses past continuous tense.
The –ing form of “disturbing” functions as verb. The
sentences above uses past continuous tense.
8. Paragraph 6
He said several protestors stood on the hoods of cars encouraging others to resist the police and that
several police officers had been injured by rocks thrown by protestors.
Analysis:
The -ing form of "encouraging" function as noun.