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        "msgid": "ministers-should-deal-with-crisis-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-03-26 00:00:00",
        "title": "Ministers should deal with crisis",
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        "summary": "Ministers should deal with crisis From Media Indonesia Political-party figures are divided in their view whether ministers should be allowed to campaign. I think ministers should be prohibited from campaigning on the basis of the following considerations. 1. If the ministers campaign, they are compelled to take leave. Our country is in a crisis and there is very much work to be accomplished by the ministers in a short time.",
        "content": "<p>Ministers should deal with crisis<\/p>\n<p>From Media Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Political-party figures are divided in their view whether<br>\nministers should be allowed to campaign. I think ministers should<br>\nbe prohibited from campaigning on the basis of the following<br>\nconsiderations.<\/p>\n<p>1. If the ministers campaign, they are compelled to take leave.<br>\nOur country is in a crisis and there is very much work to be<br>\naccomplished by the ministers in a short time.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot imagine the situation between May 18 and June 6, when<br>\na number of ministers leave their posts only because of party<br>\ninterest. It is not easy to delegate the task of the ministers to<br>\nother ministers or to their staff. The main thing is that general<br>\ninterests must prevail over party or personal interests.<\/p>\n<p>2. The general election should be honest and fair. If ministers<br>\nare allowed to campaign, it is feared this will eliminate<br>\nfairness because the ministers belong to three political parties,<br>\nwhile the other 45 never participated in the previous elections<br>\nand are, thus, not represented in the Cabinet. Let us all become<br>\nnew players and start from the beginning together.<\/p>\n<p>3. The general election committee (KPU) has to finish a lot of<br>\nwork before the election campaigns in less than two months. The<br>\nministers should not campaign, so the KPU is not additionally<br>\nburdened to make regulations for campaigning ministers.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that the KPU cannot prohibit ministers from<br>\ncampaigning, but the KPU is in a position to compel political<br>\nparties that they prohibit their cadres who are ministers from<br>\ncampaigning.<\/p>\n<p>However, I agree if ministers campaign after the 1999 general<br>\nelection because:<\/p>\n<p>1. It is fitting that the ministers go on leave after years of<br>\nservice.<\/p>\n<p>2. A sense of fairness will have been obtained because the<br>\nministers will be the product of the general election with 48<br>\npolitical parties participating.<\/p>\n<p>3. The KPU will have sufficient time to set the limits for<br>\nministers campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>M. GANDHI<\/p>\n<p>Tangerang, West Java<\/p>",
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