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        "msgid": "gus-dur-meets-chinese-party-delegates-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-09-21 00:00:00",
        "title": "Gus Dur meets Chinese party delegates",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Gus Dur meets Chinese party delegates JAKARTA (JP): In an event which would have been almost unthinkable just a few years ago, President Abdurrahman Wahid met on Wednesday with visiting delegates from the Chinese Communist Party. Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting at the Presidential Palace, head of the eight-member delegation Dai Bingguo said the visit was in response to an invitation by PKB leaders.",
        "content": "<p>Gus Dur meets Chinese party delegates<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): In an event which would have been almost<br>\nunthinkable just a few years ago, President Abdurrahman Wahid met<br>\non Wednesday with visiting delegates from the Chinese Communist<br>\nParty.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting at the<br>\nPresidential Palace, head of the eight-member delegation Dai<br>\nBingguo said the visit was in response to an invitation by PKB<br>\nleaders.<\/p>\n<p>\"The objective of our visit is to get acquainted with our<br>\nIndonesian friends,\" Bingguo, who is chairman of the Chinese<br>\nCommunist Party's Central Committee for International Affairs,<br>\ntold reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\"We want to understand changes that have taken place here in<br>\nIndonesia,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bingguo further said that his party supported Indonesia's<br>\nterritorial integrity and that the country's political and<br>\neconomic stability were crucial to stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Chinese Communist Party would never interfere<br>\nin Indonesia's internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The visit and meeting were another sign of the changing times.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was also aimed at forging a closer relationship<br>\nbetween the Chinese Communist Party and the National Awakening<br>\nParty (PKB) which Abdurrahman founded.<\/p>\n<p>During the New Order era under former president Soeharto, the<br>\ngovernment adopted an extreme distaste for anything even remotely<br>\nconnected to communism, particularly those affiliated with the<br>\nChinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Jakarta and Beijing were frozen in 1968<br>\nfollowing allegations that China had supported the abortive coup<br>\nby the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in September 1965, which<br>\nChina denied.<\/p>\n<p>Only some 20 years later were diplomatic ties normalized.<\/p>\n<p>But the era of reform has ushered in a new objectivity with no<br>\nless than the President himself suggesting that a past decree<br>\noutlawing Communism be revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Abdurrahman also made China the destination for his first<br>\nofficial state visit.<\/p>\n<p>An official within the Chinese Communist Party delegation said<br>\nthat the delegation would stay for about five days. A two-day<br>\nvisit to the resort island Bali is on their itinerary. (byg\/prb)<\/p>",
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