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    "data": {
        "id": 1241004,
        "msgid": "corruption-and-floods-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-02-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "Corruption and floods",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Corruption and floods In an interview with one of the private television stations, a member of Commission IV of the House of Representatives (DPR), representing the Golkar faction, said that owing to the deluge affecting practically the whole city of Jakarta recently, the city's land use plan and spatial layout needed reviewing.",
        "content": "<p>Corruption and floods<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with one of the private television stations, a<br>\nmember of Commission IV of the House of Representatives (DPR),<br>\nrepresenting the Golkar faction, said that owing to the deluge<br>\naffecting practically the whole city of Jakarta recently, the<br>\ncity's land use plan and spatial layout needed reviewing.<\/p>\n<p>This statement shocked me because this respectable House<br>\nmember feigned ignorance that violations against the city's land<br>\nuse plan and spatial layout design had partly been committed by<br>\nmembers of the Indonesian Real Estate Association (REI),<br>\nparticularly big developers. I found it hard to believe that this<br>\nlegislator, who is a former chairman of REI, did not know that<br>\nhis own colleagues (members of REI executive board) and some REI<br>\nmembers had committed the violations.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no denying the fact that nature played its role<br>\nin the deluge that swept the city a few days ago, the most<br>\nserious cause was the rampant corruption and collusion involving<br>\ngovernment officials and big real estate developers (members of<br>\nREI executive board\/REI) during the New Order era.<\/p>\n<p>The power of money has freely altered the land use plan and<br>\nspatial layout design of a city\/a region. I'm convinced that the<br>\ndamage that the power of nature in Jakarta, Bogor, Bekasi,<br>\nTangerang, Cikampek, Sukabumi, Puncak and Cianjur has brought, is<br>\nthe result of the avarice of big real estate developers and also<br>\nthe abuse of power by bureaucrats, the main pillar of Golkar's<br>\npower during the New Order era.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to remind the respectable House member that history<br>\ncannot be written off. History will shed light on the real truth<br>\nand it is from history that we learn to be wiser.<\/p>\n<p>AMIR KARAMOY<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chairman of<\/p>\n<p>the New Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Association (PIB)<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta chapter<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/corruption-and-floods-1447893297",
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