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        "id": 1056551,
        "msgid": "lepers-on-the-roads-as-beggars-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-05-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Lepers on the roads as beggars",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Lepers on the roads as beggars PADANG, West Java: A senior local official has sensed something fishy about the many beggars roaming the city streets. Chief of the local social service office, Burhanuddin, said on Saturday he suspected the lepers were organized by some syndicate that \"sells\" others' misery. \"They (the lepers) are taken in vans and dropped at main streets corners in the morning and picked up in the evening,\" he said, Antara reported.",
        "content": "<p>Lepers on the roads as beggars<\/p>\n<p>PADANG, West Java: A senior local official has sensed<br>\nsomething fishy about the many beggars roaming the city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of the local social service office, Burhanuddin, said on<br>\nSaturday he suspected the lepers were organized by some syndicate<br>\nthat \"sells\" others' misery.<\/p>\n<p>\"They (the lepers) are taken in vans and dropped at main<br>\nstreets corners in the morning and picked up in the evening,\" he<br>\nsaid, Antara reported.<\/p>\n<p>He said the authorities would not tolerate the lepers'<br>\nexploiters because not only do they sell others' suffering but<br>\nthey also tarnish the city's image as a clean and orderly<br>\ncapital.<\/p>\n<p>All the lepers come from poor families and they are easily<br>\nlured into making money on the streets without working hard, he<br>\nsaid. \"In fact it is the crime syndicate that enjoys the money.\"<br>\n(pan)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/lepers-on-the-roads-as-beggars-1447893297",
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