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        "msgid": "bogor-mayor-under-fire-for-alleged-slurs-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-12-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "Bogor mayor under fire for alleged slurs",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Bogor mayor under fire for alleged slurs BOGOR (JP): Some 30 journalists staged a protest at Bogor's mayoralty office and local council building on Thursday demanding the city's mayor, Col. Agus Utara Effendi, apologize for allegedly insulting Budi Lesmana, a reporter at the local Radar Bogor daily. \"We want the mayor to admit to and apologize for his wrongdoings in a written statement published in the national media,\" the reporters said.",
        "content": "<p>Bogor mayor under fire for alleged slurs<\/p>\n<p>BOGOR (JP): Some 30 journalists staged a protest at Bogor's<br>\nmayoralty office and local council building on Thursday demanding<br>\nthe city's mayor, Col. Agus Utara Effendi, apologize for<br>\nallegedly insulting Budi Lesmana, a reporter at the local Radar<br>\nBogor daily.<\/p>\n<p>\"We want the mayor to admit to and apologize for his<br>\nwrongdoings in a written statement published in the national<br>\nmedia,\" the reporters said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident took place on Tuesday night after the<br>\nmayor had completed his speech at a Ramadhan evening prayer<br>\nmeeting at Nuril Ihsan Islamic boarding school in Cisarua,<br>\nPuncak.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor reportedly got upset over Budi questioning him about<br>\npoverty and malnutrition cases in Kampung Sukaluyu, Bogor, and<br>\nwithout warning grabbed Budi's shirt collar and scolded him.<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm not afraid of anybody!\" he said, and snatched the<br>\nreporter's tape recorder.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting journalists, however, failed to meet the mayor<br>\nas he was said to be on a field trip.<\/p>\n<p>\"The mayor is out of town,\" said Bogor city spokesman Helmi<br>\nGustian. The group eventually met with Council Speaker Endang<br>\nKosasih who promised to help solve the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is our duty to find solutions. We are willing to become a<br>\nmediator between the reporters and the mayor in this matter,\"<br>\nEndang said.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters unfurled posters reading, \"A hoodlum must not<br>\nbecome mayor\" and \"Agus Utara doesn't deserve to be a mayor\".<br>\nThey later dispersed after a session with the councilors.<\/p>\n<p>Radar Bogor's editor Ubay Subarna regretted the incident,<br>\nsaying the mayor should have used his right to complain if he<br>\nfelt there had been unbalanced reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Bogor branch of the Indonesian Journalist<br>\nAssociation (PWI) Herman Abbas supported the protests, demanding<br>\nthe mayor must apologize for his action.<\/p>\n<p>\"What he did was arrogant and improper,\" he said. (21\/24\/edt)<\/p>",
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