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        "msgid": "ill-vote-for-those-whom-ive-known-for-a-while-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-03-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "'I'll vote for those whom I've known for a while'",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "'I'll vote for those whom I've known for a while' The 38 Jakarta candidates for the new Regional Representatives Council (DPD) have started campaigning across the capital, with posters, banners and floats to rouse the city. However, many city residents The Jakarta Post talked to feel such a campaign cannot effectively reach out to voters. Indah Mulyani, 23, is a feature writer in a women's magazine whose office is located in Menteng, Central Jakarta.",
        "content": "<p>'I'll vote for those whom I've known for a while'<\/p>\n<p>The 38 Jakarta candidates for the new Regional Representatives<br>\nCouncil (DPD) have started campaigning across the capital, with<br>\nposters, banners and floats to rouse the city. However, many city<br>\nresidents The Jakarta Post talked to feel such a campaign cannot<br>\neffectively reach out to voters.<\/p>\n<p>Indah Mulyani, 23, is a feature writer in a women's magazine<br>\nwhose office is located in Menteng, Central Jakarta. She lives in<br>\nSalemba, also in Central Jakarta:<\/p>\n<p>I know what DPD candidates I shall vote for in the upcoming<br>\ngeneral election. I have known this person because we studied at<br>\nthe same university. I know this person's reputation and<br>\ncredibility.<\/p>\n<p>If I had not known this person, it would have been hard for me<br>\nto choose. The banners and posters fixed to practically every<br>\ncorner of the street simply do not inform us about whom the DPD<br>\ncandidates are -- whether they are corrupt or not.<\/p>\n<p>As for their functions and how DPD members will work, I only<br>\nknow a little from the brochures and newspaper advertisements,<br>\nwhich I think is not enough. We should be informed more about<br>\nthat.<\/p>\n<p>Rizka Nurmaya, 25, works as an account coordinator in a<br>\nprivate firm located in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta. She lives<br>\nin Tangerang:<\/p>\n<p>I'm not familiar with the candidates or the DPD itself. I know<br>\nwhat \"DPD\" stands for, but I've never really paid much attention<br>\nto what their job really is.<\/p>\n<p>I never read articles on the election, either in newspapers or<br>\nmagazines, because I'm just not interested in it.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago, I had a chat with my friends about this<br>\nmatter; apparently they had the same problem as I -- they don't<br>\nknow much about the DPD either.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, before the DPD election I will try to find out whom to<br>\nvote for by reading magazines, newspapers or other publications<br>\non the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>--The Jakarta Post<\/p>",
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