

Then, in a package which put the source of the news and its utterance on the title, the journalist tries to enclose the relation of the reader to the source of the news. However, in a package which does not put the clear reference on the title, the readers are suggested to continue to read the body of the news. A clear and complex package of a news content on the title gives an ease to the reader to understand the news content. From the structure of the news element, it can be found the several topicalizations such as the topicalization of what, who, where, when, cause, manner, or the combination of two or more elements of the news. The data were analyzed by employing discourse approach (: micro-structure), especially the connectivity between the title to the body of the news.There are many things that underlie the differences of news content packaging on the straight news. The analysis was conducted through pragmatic identity method, referential identity method, and traditional identity method. This study investigates anything that underlie the differences of the variation on the packaging variation of the news content on the title that is based on the topicalization, the materials of news title writing, clarity and complexity of the news content, reference shifting from the title to the body of the news, roles of the mediator and the source of the news, maintaining the local value of the news, comparison between the news content on the prior text, and the ideology of the news. Keywords: obituary, character building, motives, reference, Kompas The inspirational figures can further impact on students’ character building.

Based on the analysis of the data as presented in this article, the obituary texts are potential to become a learning material in Indonesian language education, particularly in elementary school. In analyzing the data, this present research applied referential method, marker-reading technique, and pragmatic identity method as well as pedagogic and hermeneutic approach. This study applies a referential identity method and marker reading technique. The data source is only drawn from the newspaper Kompas since Kompas is the only newspaper that gives a special column on the issue. The data were obtained through a documentation technique while the data source was attained from printed newspapers called Kompas Indonesia in 2015–2017. This study aimed at elaborating the reference, author’s perspective, the technique of collecting material, role assertion, contribution to writing biography, and motive in the obituary.

Moral values can be obtained through obituary writing in newspapers. The newspaper enables the readers to obtain enlightenment, particularly moral values.
