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        "msgid": "administration-cannot-finish-hermes-replica-work-on-time-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-05-02 00:00:00",
        "title": "Administration cannot finish Hermes replica work on time",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Administration cannot finish Hermes replica work on time JAKARTA (JP): The city administration cannot meet its own deadline to finish the replica of the Greek god Hermes statue, which was once reported missing, due to a delayed budget disbursement, an official said on Monday. Head of the program division of the city museum and restoration agency Indro Kusumo said the replica would be finished sometime between June and July. Previously the deadline had been set for March 30.",
        "content": "<p>Administration cannot finish Hermes replica work on time<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The city administration cannot meet its own<br>\ndeadline to finish the replica of the Greek god Hermes statue,<br>\nwhich was once reported missing, due to a delayed budget<br>\ndisbursement, an official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the program division of the city museum and<br>\nrestoration agency Indro Kusumo said the replica would be<br>\nfinished sometime between June and July. Previously the deadline<br>\nhad been set for March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Indro admitted the budget payments had not in accordance with<br>\nthe previous schedule of March 30.<\/p>\n<p>\" The budget for the replica is included in the additional<br>\npackage of the city budget. This payment usually comes later than<br>\nthe normal budget.<\/p>\n<p>\"We can only send his payment (the sculptor's) in the middle<br>\nof April after the budget has been disbursed. That's why the<br>\nsculptor cannot continue his work,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Indro said that unlike businesspeople, artists could not be<br>\nexpected to finance a project worth Rp 135 million before the<br>\nbudget was forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the sculpture, Arsono, had promised that the<br>\nHermes replica would be finished between June and July.<\/p>\n<p>The two-meter bronze Hermes statue, which graced the Harmoni<br>\nbridge nearby the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta for more<br>\nthan 90 years, hit the headlines after it was reported missing on<br>\nAug. 22, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after the reports, the city public works agency<br>\nannounced it had the statue. The statue had started to fall into<br>\nthe Ciliwung River, which passes under the Harmoni bridge, and<br>\nthe agency had removed it. One of its heels had broken off.<\/p>\n<p>The administration plan to install the replica, which will be<br>\nmore detailed -- with two wings as well as featuring two snakes<br>\non a staff -- than the real one, on the bridge. The original will<br>\nbe displayed at the Jakarta Historical Museum in West Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>The replica is being created by sculpture Arsono, a well-known<br>\nexpert on busts. (ind)<\/p>",
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