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        "id": 1504615,
        "msgid": "agum-may-retain-ministerial-post-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-07-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "Agum may retain ministerial post",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Agum may retain ministerial post JAKARTA: After losing the July 5 race, vice presidential candidate Agum Gumelar of the United Development Party (PPP) may resume his job as minister of transportation. Deputy Cabinet secretary Erman Radjagukguk said on Thursday that President Megawati Soekarnoputri had not dismissed Agum, but merely suspended him to allow him to contest the presidential election. \"The terms 'suspension' and 'dismissal' are different.",
        "content": "<p>Agum may retain ministerial post<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: After losing the July 5 race, vice presidential<br>\ncandidate Agum Gumelar of the United Development Party (PPP) may<br>\nresume his job as minister of transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Cabinet secretary Erman Radjagukguk said on Thursday<br>\nthat President Megawati Soekarnoputri had not dismissed Agum, but<br>\nmerely suspended him to allow him to contest the presidential<br>\nelection.<\/p>\n<p>\"The terms 'suspension' and 'dismissal' are different. But<br>\nit's up to the President whether she will allow him (Agum) to<br>\nreturn to the Cabinet or not,\" Erman told The Jakarta Post on<br>\nThursday.<\/p>\n<p>Agum was suspended in accordance with Regulation No. 18\/2003,<br>\nwhich stipulates that any minister officially declared a<br>\npresidential candidate by the General Elections Commission (KPU)<br>\nmust be nonactive.--JP<\/p>",
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