摘要：keyword: TRANSLATION, ENGLISH, MACHINE TRANSLATIONABSTRACT :The paper discusses about the translation of English news article into Indonesianand comparison between the writer�s translation and machine translation. Theaims of the research are to find out the problems in translating the English newsarticle into Indonesian, and to find out the superiorities and weaknesses ofwriter�s translation and machine translation. Data used to translate theEnglish news article into Indonesian were taken from libraries and literatureonline and data used to compare are from the writer�s translation andmachine translation taken from English news article, the Jakarta post in www.thejakartapost.com, released on May 6, 2006. The analysis of these dataused qualitative descriptive. In the result of the study, the writer found theproblems in translating from English news article into Indonesian. There aretwo problems; first, there is translation of some of English words that borrowedby Indonesian by using the loan word translating rules. Second, there istranslation of some idiomatic expression words that translate into Indonesia.Besides finding two problems above, the writer also found the superiorities andweaknesses between the writer�s translation and machine translation. Theresult of problem in translating English news article the writer using the loan word translating rules by changing some alphabet of the English words and thechange has to be suitable with the Indonesian Spelling Rules. The result ofproblem in comparison between the writer�s translations and the machinetranslation is the writer�s translation is better than the machine translationboth in the meaning and accuracy.
