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        "msgid": "councillors-stay-at-hotel-prior-to-election-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-06-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "Councillors stay at hotel prior to election",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Councillors stay at hotel prior to election KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Thirty-eight East Nusa Tenggara councillors have been put up at hotels for three days prior to the election of the province's governor and deputy governor. The head of the Golkar Party faction, Melkianus Adoe, told The Jakarta Post on Monday that 20 councillors from the Golkar Party and 18 from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) were being housed at several star-rated hotels in Kupang.",
        "content": "<p>Councillors stay at hotel prior to election<\/p>\n<p>KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Thirty-eight East Nusa Tenggara<br>\ncouncillors have been put up at hotels for three days prior to<br>\nthe election of the province's governor and deputy governor.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Golkar Party faction, Melkianus Adoe, told The<br>\nJakarta Post on Monday that 20 councillors from the Golkar Party<br>\nand 18 from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI<br>\nPerjuangan) were being housed at several star-rated hotels in<br>\nKupang. Eleven councillors from the coalition faction and six<br>\nfrom the Indonesian Military (TNI)\/Police faction rejected the<br>\noffer.<\/p>\n<p>\"The main reason to have them stay in a hotel is to make<br>\nconsolidation and communication easier. It's also easier for the<br>\ncouncillors to go to the council building if they stay in the<br>\nsame place,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>But councillor Arif Rahman from the coalition faction said<br>\nthat the move indicated a lack of democracy within both parties.<\/p>\n<p>Golkar has nominated Esthon Foenay and Gaspar Parang Ehok to<br>\nrun in Thursday's election. They will challenge the incumbent<br>\ngovernor, Piet A. Tallo, who is backed by PDI Perjuangan.<\/p>\n<p>Kupang Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Viktor Simanjutak said that<br>\n350 officers had been deployed to guard the council building, the<br>\ncouncillors' houses and particularly the nominees' houses. -- JP<\/p>",
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