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    "data": {
        "id": 1498346,
        "msgid": "jp2ifj-1447899208",
        "date": "2004-04-21 00:00:00",
        "title": "JP\/2\/IFJ",
        "author": null,
        "source": "",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "JP\/2\/IFJ World press association calls for Fery's release The Jakarta Post Jakarta The International Federation of Journalists has reiterated its demand for the release of RCTI television cameraman, Fery Santoro, who has spent almost 10 months as a hostage of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).",
        "content": "<p>JP\/2\/IFJ<\/p>\n<p>World press association calls for Fery's release<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post<br>\nJakarta<\/p>\n<p>The International Federation of Journalists has reiterated its <br>\ndemand for the release of RCTI television cameraman, Fery <br>\nSantoro, who has spent almost 10 months as a hostage of the Free <br>\nAceh Movement (GAM).<\/p>\n<p>President of the Brussels-based IFJ, Christopher Warren, said <br>\non Monday in a statement that \"Neither the GAM fighters in <br>\n(Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam) nor the Indonesian Military have given <br>\nFery's safety the priority it deserves.\" In an accompanying <br>\narticle Warren wrote that Fery \"cannot become the forgotten <br>\nhostage\".<\/p>\n<p>Fery was abducted while on assignment in the Langsa area by <br>\nGAM along with colleague Sory Ersa Siregar on June 29 last year, <br>\ntheir driver and two wives of Air Force officers. The driver <br>\nescaped late last year, while the Indonesian Military (TNI) said <br>\nErsa was killed on Dec. 29 by TNI bullets in a gunfight with GAM. <br>\nThe women were released in February.<\/p>\n<p>The TNI and GAM with the assistance of the International <br>\nCommittee of the Red Cross and the Indonesian Red Cross have so <br>\nfar failed to facilitate the release of Fery and dozens of other <br>\nhostages.<\/p>\n<p>Warren noted that \"Journalists are taken hostage to punish and <br>\nintimidate the press. It is an act of cowardice and futility.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Taking journalists hostage limits the ability of all of us to <br>\nknow and understand what is happening in areas of conflict,\" he <br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Given the public's limited access to Aceh the government has <br>\nbeen accused of waging a \"secret war\" under the guise of its <br>\n\"integrated operations\" under the status of martial law. The <br>\ngovernment has vehemently denied the accusation, citing that <br>\nnothing is secret in Aceh as journalists were invited to cover <br>\nall aspects of the operation including military <br>\nactivities.<\/p>\n<p>Martial law is scheduled to end on May 19.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/jp2ifj-1447899208",
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