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        "msgid": "opposing-groups-to-stage-rallies-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-07-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "Opposing groups to stage rallies",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Opposing groups to stage rallies UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi (JP): Pro-government groups and democracy activists plan to stage separate massive rallies here today to reaffirm their stands on current state issues. The planned rallies have triggered concern about heightening political tension ahead of the 1997 general election, although they will be held in different places.",
        "content": "<p>Opposing groups to stage rallies<\/p>\n<p>UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi (JP): Pro-government groups and<br>\ndemocracy activists plan to stage separate massive rallies here<br>\ntoday to reaffirm their stands on current state issues.<\/p>\n<p>The planned rallies have triggered concern about heightening<br>\npolitical tension ahead of the 1997 general election, although<br>\nthey will be held in different places.<\/p>\n<p>The 15,000-strong pro-government groups will be spearheaded by<br>\nthe local branch of the powerful FKPPI, a communication forum for<br>\nthe offspring of retired Armed Forces members, sources said<br>\nyesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The other group, the Indonesian Front for Democracy, is an<br>\nalliance of chiefly pro-democracy students and non-governmental<br>\norganization (NGO) activists.<\/p>\n<p>Students and NGO activists have been actively displaying their<br>\nsympathy for the embattled Megawati Soekarnoputri, the<br>\ndemocratically elected leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party<br>\n(PDI) ousted last month at a government-backed congress.<\/p>\n<p>Among those expressing worries about the planned massive<br>\nrallies were political observer H.H. Muis and the secretary of<br>\nthe provincial PDI chapter, Jacobus Camarlow.<\/p>\n<p>\"To respond to a rally with a rally is not compatible with the<br>\nspirit of deliberation for consensus which President Soeharto<br>\ncalled for the other day,\" Muis said.<\/p>\n<p>Camarlow said that rallies and counter-rallies can heighten<br>\ntension and endanger peaceful coexistence among various groups in<br>\nthe area.<\/p>\n<p>The planned rally already sparked heat over the weekend, when<br>\nthe Cipayung Group, a powerful student group comprising several<br>\nnationalist and religious-based organizations, lodged a protest<br>\nover their inclusion on the list of participants in the rally.<\/p>\n<p>The Cipayung group said that it is a moral movement that<br>\naccommodates different interests and shuns mass actions in its<br>\nefforts to achieve its goals. (20\/pan)<\/p>",
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