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        "msgid": "only-five-parties-turn-up-for-debate-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-05-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "Only five parties turn up for debate",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Only five parties turn up for debate PURWOKERTO, Central Java: Of 35 parties registered to contest the June polls here, only five sent representatives to a public debate organized by the Student Senates of General Soedirman University here on Friday. The parties which turned up were the National Mandate Party (PAN), National Awakening Party (PKB), Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan), Crescent Star Party (PBB) and Justice Party (PK).",
        "content": "<p>Only five parties turn up for debate<\/p>\n<p>PURWOKERTO, Central Java: Of 35 parties registered to contest<br>\nthe June polls here, only five sent representatives to a public<br>\ndebate organized by the Student Senates of General Soedirman<br>\nUniversity here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The parties which turned up were the National Mandate Party<br>\n(PAN), National Awakening Party (PKB), Indonesian Democratic<br>\nParty of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan), Crescent Star Party (PBB) and<br>\nJustice Party (PK).<\/p>\n<p>\"Most of those who failed to come cited the lack of quality<br>\nrepresentatives as their excuse,\" chairman of the student<br>\nsenates, Kundiyarto, said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the large number of absent guests, hundreds of<br>\nenthusiastic students packed the meeting hall which accommodated<br>\nthe debate.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the questions raised to the party representatives<br>\ndealt with the parties' stance on the Indonesian Military's (TNI)<br>\ndual role.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the question, PKB local secretary Ahmad Ihsan<br>\nsaid it would take the nation quite a long time to send the<br>\nmilitary back to the barracks. \"We should not be that hasty to<br>\nrevoke TNI's dual role,\" he said. (45)<\/p>",
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