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        "id": 1374601,
        "msgid": "a-plot-to-topple-the-government-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-11-19 00:00:00",
        "title": "A plot to topple the government?",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "A plot to topple the government? A number of people gathered in a plush hotel room. There, under the glare of television spotlights, they made public an 18- point proposition to be televised nationwide, openly. Among those 18 points was one proposing the formation of a presidium as an alternative to the present government. Not much interest was shown at the time the 18 points were publicized, neither by the public or by the government.",
        "content": "<p>A plot to topple the government?<\/p>\n<p>A number of people gathered in a plush hotel room. There,<br>\nunder the glare of television spotlights, they made public an 18-<br>\npoint proposition to be televised nationwide, openly. Among those<br>\n18 points was one proposing the formation of a presidium as an<br>\nalternative to the present government.<\/p>\n<p>Not much interest was shown at the time the 18 points were<br>\npublicized, neither by the public or by the government. The<br>\ndeclaration was regarded as a democratic adornment, something<br>\ncurrently in vogue. However, when huge demonstrations flared up<br>\nin Jakarta a few days later and victims fell, the realization<br>\nbegan to dawn that a conspiracy to topple the government was<br>\ngoing on. The Group of 17, which conceived the 18 points<br>\ncontained in the declaration, was accused of instigating the<br>\ndemonstrations, which aimed at foiling the Special Session of the<br>\nConsultative People's Assembly (MPR) and at the same time<br>\ntoppling the lawful government. One after another, the people<br>\n(who signed the declaration) were questioned by police on<br>\nsuspicion of conspiring to topple the government.<\/p>\n<p>Because it concerns power, a conspiracy to topple a government<br>\nmust be based on some grand design, complete with a description<br>\nof the stages and modes of operation involved. When the plotters<br>\nare questioned, no facts should actually need to be kept secret.<br>\nAll the intelligence data, initially meant for the consumption of<br>\ncertain officials only, must now be made available to the public.<br>\nThe public has the right to know in detail what the plot<br>\nattempted to achieve and how.<\/p>\n<p>The government at present is making the stakes extremely high.<br>\nIt must have the courage and resolution to take action against<br>\nthe plotters if it can prove its case. Otherwise it must in all<br>\nfairness restore the suspects' names. Any dallying or leaving the<br>\ncase unresolved for no clear reason -- as in the case of the<br>\nabduction of political activists, the resolution of whose cases<br>\nremains obscure up to the present -- will only further tarnish<br>\nthe government's image.<\/p>\n<p>-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta<\/p>",
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