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        "id": 1548381,
        "msgid": "buru-turned-into-rice-fields-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-04-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "Buru turned into rice fields",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Buru turned into rice fields AMBON, Maluku: The provincial government plans to open 800 hectares of ricefields on Buru, a small island once used to imprison suspected communists. Mangantar Simatupang, head of the island's irrigation project, said yesterday that the ricefields are expected to help materialize Maluku's ambition to become one of Indonesia's main rice producers.",
        "content": "<p>Buru turned into rice fields<\/p>\n<p>AMBON, Maluku: The provincial government plans to open 800<br>\nhectares of ricefields on Buru, a small island once used to<br>\nimprison suspected communists.<\/p>\n<p>Mangantar Simatupang, head of the island&apos;s irrigation project,<br>\nsaid yesterday that the ricefields are expected to help<br>\nmaterialize Maluku&apos;s ambition to become one of Indonesia&apos;s main<br>\nrice producers.<\/p>\n<p>Buru, which is part of the state-sponsored transmigration<br>\nprogram, is fertile and has sold a large amount of rice to the<br>\nstate logistics agency.<\/p>\n<p>Simatupang said Bulog has bought more than 1,450 tons of rice<br>\nsince 1991.<\/p>\n<p>He said his office would build a number of irrigation networks<br>\nto support the plan, Antara reported.<\/p>\n<p>The existing irrigation systems, which use groundwater, cover<br>\nsome 599 hectares of paddy fields. (pan)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/buru-turned-into-rice-fields-1447893297",
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