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        "id": 1471419,
        "msgid": "huge-fund-for-education-earmarked-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-02-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Huge fund for education earmarked",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Huge fund for education earmarked BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan: The Balikpapan mayoral administration has earmarked at least 20 percent of its Rp 550 billion (US$68.75 million) 2004 budget toward education, as stipulated in the Constitution. The fund is to be used for training teachers, constructing schools, paying salaries and other education-related purposes, said Ali Munsjir Hasyim, spokesman of the Balikpapan government.",
        "content": "<p>Huge fund for education earmarked<\/p>\n<p>BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan: The Balikpapan mayoral<br>\nadministration has earmarked at least 20 percent of its Rp 550<br>\nbillion (US$68.75 million) 2004 budget toward education, as<br>\nstipulated in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The fund is to be used for training teachers, constructing<br>\nschools, paying salaries and other education-related purposes,<br>\nsaid Ali Munsjir Hasyim, spokesman of the Balikpapan government.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the fund will also be used toward renovating 20 of 160<br>\nelementary schools in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes amid an ongoing furor in Kampar, Riau,<br>\nwhere the educational community took to the streets over the<br>\nregent&apos;s expulsion of a local principal who questioned the<br>\nallocation of only 5 percent of the regental budget toward<br>\neducation. -- JP<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/huge-fund-for-education-earmarked-1447893297",
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