An Analysis of Transitivity in the Helsinki MoU between the Indonesian Government and Free-Aceh Movement

This study presents the investigation of transitivity analysis on document of MoU between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free-Aceh Movement. The purpose of this study was to determine the process types that appear in the document MoU and to discover the most dominant of process types and the reason of dominant process is selected. This study applied mixed method research design. The data were collected through documentation and analyzed based on Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) theories by Halliday (1985). The findings of this study showed that all process types appear in the document of MoU. The process types were material, relational, mental, behavioural, verbal, and existential. The highest percentage of process type was material. Material process that were found are 49.59%, followed by relational with 35.54%, mental process with 6.61%, behavioural are 4%, and the lowest are verbal with 2.48% and existential with 1.65%. The most dominant process indicates that most of clauses in the point of agreement contain physical activity that need to be carried out by the Indonesian Government and Free-Aceh Movement in resolving problems in Aceh.