Lexical Collocation in The Jakarta Post Newspaper

This study analyzes lexical collocation in the context. The meaning of context in this study is articles of each sections (news, sports, opinion, and living) in The Jakarta Post newspaper. This study focuses on the existence and the usage of lexical collocation in non-native newspaper, The Jakarta Post. This study also provides answers the following problems: (1) What is type of lexical collocation presented in The Jakarta Post newspaper?;And (2) How is the usage of lexical collocation in The Jakarta Post newspaper?. This study uses content analysis approach to getting and to analyzing the data. In addition to help analyzing data, this study also uses application dictionary ( English Collocation Dictionary IELTS ) to help researcher search and check the lexical collocation words.Thus, the analysis is based on Benson who said lexical collocation has seven types. The finding of this study show the articles in The Jakarta Post Newspaper present only six types of lexical collocation. The types are lexical collocation verb(active) + noun, adjective + noun, noun + verb, noun + noun, adverb + adjective or adjective + adverb, and adverb + verb. And this result of this study show the usage of lexical collocation based on kind of articles (news, opinion, sport, and living) are different.