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        "id": 1361641,
        "msgid": "bamus-fails-to-hold-first-meeting-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-08-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "Bamus fails to hold first meeting",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Bamus fails to hold first meeting JAKARTA: The House of Representatives steering committee (Bamus) failed to hold its first meeting on Thursday after most of its members did not show up. Only 18 of the 76 Bamus members showed up for the meeting, arranged to determine the date on which President Megawati Soekarnoputri was due to explain the loss of Sipadan and Ligitan islands to Malaysia in December last year.",
        "content": "<p>Bamus fails to hold first meeting<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: The House of Representatives steering committee<br>\n(Bamus) failed to hold its first meeting on Thursday after most<br>\nof its members did not show up.<\/p>\n<p>Only 18 of the 76 Bamus members showed up for the meeting,<br>\narranged to determine the date on which President Megawati<br>\nSoekarnoputri was due to explain the loss of Sipadan and Ligitan<br>\nislands to Malaysia in December last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan)<br>\nfaction, which controls Bamus, was conspicuously absent, as only<br>\nfour of its 22 representatives turned up.<\/p>\n<p>Most PDI Perjuangan legislators consider the Sipadan-Ligitan<br>\nissue to be over. PDI Perjuangan is led by Megawati<br>\nSoekarnoputri, who is also the President.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy House speaker Tosari Widjaja, who was supposed to lead<br>\nthe meeting, declined to speculate on the poor attendance, saying<br>\nthat it was due to lack of discipline among lawmakers. --JP<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/bamus-fails-to-hold-first-meeting-1447893297",
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