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        "id": 1311922,
        "msgid": "farmers-plan-to-hold-nationwide-protest-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-07-12 00:00:00",
        "title": "Farmers plan to hold nationwide protest",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Farmers plan to hold nationwide protest JAKARTA (JP): Some one million farmers plan to stage a mass protest simultaneously in 11 cities on Monday to demand agrarian reform. The protest is aimed at urging the People's Consultative Assembly's Ad Hoc Commission II on non-Constitutional Amendments to include agrarian reform as part of the agenda for the upcoming Assembly general session in August.",
        "content": "<p>Farmers plan to hold nationwide protest<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Some one million farmers plan to stage a mass<br>\nprotest simultaneously in 11 cities on Monday to demand agrarian<br>\nreform.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is aimed at urging the People's Consultative<br>\nAssembly's Ad Hoc Commission II on non-Constitutional Amendments<br>\nto include agrarian reform as part of the agenda for the upcoming<br>\nAssembly general session in August.<\/p>\n<p>Muslich Ismail, the head of the Consortium for Agrarian Reform<br>\n(KPA), acknowledged that the group is coordinating the mass<br>\nprotest.<\/p>\n<p>Muslich claimed that the commission has gone back on its<br>\nearlier pledge last year to take up the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\"We found out about it from our sources in the Assembly's<br>\nsecretariat general. They claim that the issue is too technical<br>\nas there are already regulations about agrarian issues,\" he told<br>\nreporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"So don't blame the farmers if they stage a protest,\" he<br>\nasserted.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 cities where protests are planned are: Jakarta; Padang,<br>\nWest Sumatra; Lampung; Bandung, West Java; Salatiga and Semarang<br>\nin Central Java; Surabaya, East Java; Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara;<br>\nBanjarmasin, South Kalimantan; Samarinda, East Kalimantan and<br>\nMakassar, South Sulawesi.<\/p>\n<p>Muslich pointed out that the issue of agrarian reform is very<br>\nimportant as it touches the lives of up to 70 percent of the<br>\ncountry's total population of over 200 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The existing 1960 Agrarian Law needs to be revised as it only<br>\nbenefits investors and the business community, Muslich argued.<\/p>\n<p>\"Many farmers don't even have their own land and are poor. And<br>\nwhat about communities who are still practicing traditional law?<br>\nTheir rights to own land need to be respected too as they have<br>\ntaken care of their forests and plantations,\" Muslich added.(09)<\/p>",
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