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        "id": 1533373,
        "msgid": "growing-pain-not-sickness-siswono-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-01-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "Growing pain, not sickness: Siswono",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Growing pain, not sickness: Siswono JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Transmigration Siswono Yudohusodo believes Indonesian society is suffering from \"growing pains\" and is not sick as he was purported as saying last week, a fellow cabinet minister said yesterday. Minister\/State Secretary Moerdiono told reporters Siswono had explained his controversial remarks, reported in several Jakarta newspapers, to President Soeharto.",
        "content": "<p>Growing pain, not sickness: Siswono<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Transmigration Siswono Yudohusodo<br>\nbelieves Indonesian society is suffering from \"growing pains\" and<br>\nis not sick as he was purported as saying last week, a fellow<br>\ncabinet minister said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Minister\/State Secretary Moerdiono told reporters Siswono had<br>\nexplained his controversial remarks, reported in several Jakarta<br>\nnewspapers, to President Soeharto.<\/p>\n<p>Siswono was quoted as saying Indonesian society is \"sick\" and<br>\nthat \"government officials are sick\".<\/p>\n<p>While the remarks gained Siswono admiration from politicians<br>\nand praise from some newspaper editorials, he has since distanced<br>\nhimself from them, insisting he had been misinterpreted.<\/p>\n<p>Siswono told the President he had been misquoted, Meordiono<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, he talked about Indonesia's transformation<br>\nfrom a traditional agrarian state to a modern industrial society.<\/p>\n<p>In such a change it was normal for a society to suffer<br>\n\"development or growing pains\", Moerdiono said, adding: \"That was<br>\nthe exact terminology Siswono used.\"<\/p>\n<p>The journalists who interviewed him wrongly concluded<br>\nIndonesian society, and therefore government officials, were now<br>\nsick, Moerdiono said. President Soeharto had accepted the<br>\nexplanation, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Moerdiono reminded journalists of the need for accuracy,<br>\nespecially when reporting statements by government officials.<br>\n\"It's simple really; just write down what was said, without<br>\nadding in your own opinion,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Criticism of the cabinet by its own members is frowned upon by<br>\nPresident Soeharto.<\/p>\n<p>In November 1995, State Minister of Environment Sarwono<br>\nKusumaatmadja was told by the President to control his behavior,<br>\nafter suggesting that problems facing fellow cabinet members were<br>\nin many cases \"their own creation\".<\/p>\n<p>Sarwono, who like Siswono is a career politician, duly<br>\ncomplied. (emb)<\/p>",
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