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        "id": 1086864,
        "msgid": "14-ex-generals-to-join-ppp-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-12-19 00:00:00",
        "title": "14 Ex-generals to join PPP",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "14 Ex-generals to join PPP The United Development Party (PPP), led by Vice President Hamzah Haz, will accord membership on 14 retired generals when it celebrates its 33rd anniversary on Jan. 5, 2002. It will be only nine days before reform-minded party cadres are expected to announce the establishment of a breakaway party.",
        "content": "<p>14 Ex-generals to join PPP<\/p>\n<p>The United Development Party (PPP), led by Vice President<br>\nHamzah Haz, will accord membership on 14 retired generals when it<br>\ncelebrates its 33rd anniversary on Jan. 5, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>It will be only nine days before reform-minded party cadres<br>\nare expected to announce the establishment of a breakaway party.<\/p>\n<p>\"During the party's birthday celebration, we will introduce to<br>\nthe public 14 retired generals who will join PPP,\" PPP deputy<br>\nchairman Faisal Baasir told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the generals Faisal mentioned were Lt. Gen. (ret.) Yunus<br>\nYosfiah, a former field commander in East Timor and minister of<br>\ninformation, and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Andi M. Ghalib, a former<br>\nattorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a close friend of former head of Army Strategic<br>\nReserve Command (Kostrad) Lt. Gen. (ret.) Prabowo Subianto, Farid<br>\nPrawinegara, said that the PPP had also approached Prabowo.<\/p>\n<p>But Faisal could not confirm Farid's claim, saying that<br>\ninstitutionally PPP never approached any general to join the<br>\nparty.<\/p>\n<p>\"PPP never approaches certain parties to join, but I do not<br>\nknow if there are any PPP cadres who personally approached him<br>\n(Prabowo),\" Faisal said.<\/p>\n<p>Generals joining political parties have received a skeptical<br>\nresponse from critics, who suspect that the former officers had<br>\ntheir own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But Faisal said the PPP had a clear political platform which<br>\nshould be obeyed by all party members, believing that the former<br>\ngenerals had skills useful for the development of the party.<\/p>\n<p>They will be appointed as members of the Party Experts<br>\nCouncil.<\/p>\n<p>Disgruntled PPP cadres led by noted Muslim preacher Zainuddin<br>\nM.Z are scheduled to declare PPP Reformasi on Jan. 14. They are<br>\nunhappy with PPP chairman Hamzah Haz's leadership, which they say<br>\nis too conservative and dominated by elderly views.<\/p>",
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