Task 1

In order to analyze news reports in the three aspects, you will first need to have a
very good understanding of the contents. This is what you will do in Task 1.
1. First, you will read to understand the three news reports below. Make sure that
you know the meaning of every word and every part of each news report.

2. Then, read the news aloud as if you were a news anchor. Make sure you read
them meaningfully and fluently, with accurate pronunciation, word stress, and
intonation. Record your voice, and then email the recording to <email address>.

You may first need to learn how to do it by observing news reading at any news
websites, such as https://edition.cnn.com/specials/latest-news-videos or
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/10462520/one-minute-
world-news.

News Report 1

Aussie man dies while surfing in Lombok

MATARAM: An Australian tourist named Andrew Richard
Wiseman has died after drowning while surfing at Tanjung Aan
Beach in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.

Based on reports received by police, the 52-year-old man

went surfing alone around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Central Park
police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Kholilur Rochman said. Andrew was
found dead at around 1 p.m.

During his time in Lombok, Wiseman was living in a

homestay in Kuta village, Pujut district, in Central Lombok.

The police questioned two other foreign tourists, Eva, from

Germany and John Robert Haton, from Australia, who had seen
the incident firsthand.

“They were the ones who saw the victim drown. Based on
their information, the victim drowned directly below his
surfboard,” Kholilur said on Monday.

The two tourists, as well as local residents, immediately

brought Wiseman back to shore using a boat.

Wiseman was given emergency first aid for 25 minutes, but

he could not be resuscitated, Kholilur said.

Personnel from the Kuta Police came to the location after

receiving reports and brought Wiseman’s body to the local
health clinic.

The victim’s brother, Steven Wiseman, took the body and

 refused an autopsy. — JP

(Taken from Jakarta Post, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, p. 4)

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
Visited on 26 April 2018, 22:07

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)