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        "id": 1518672,
        "msgid": "pmii-elects-new-chairman-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-12-09 00:00:00",
        "title": "PMII elects new chairman",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "PMII elects new chairman SURABAYA, East Java: A violence-riddled student congress eventually elected Syaiful Bahri from Yogyakarta as the new chairman of the Indonesian Islamic University Students Movement (PMII) on Sunday. The participants of the week-long congress were involved in a number of brawls during the congress even though in a statement they deplored the government for resorting to violence in taming its dissidents.",
        "content": "<p>PMII elects new chairman<\/p>\n<p>SURABAYA, East Java: A violence-riddled student congress<br>\neventually elected Syaiful Bahri from Yogyakarta as the new<br>\nchairman of the Indonesian Islamic University Students Movement<br>\n(PMII) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The participants of the week-long congress were involved in a<br>\nnumber of brawls during the congress even though in a statement<br>\nthey deplored the government for resorting to violence in taming<br>\nits dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>\"Students' activities must be based on democratic ways and<br>\nnonviolent means,\" said the students in their declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Its newly replaced chairman Muhaimin fled from the congress<br>\nvenue after his opponents threatened to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>PMII, affiliated with the 30-million-strong Islamic<br>\norganization Nahdlatul Ulama, also decided to present a<br>\n\"democratic fighter\" award to Megawati Soekarnoputri and a<br>\n\"scapegoat\" award to an acquitted murder suspect. (nur\/prb)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/pmii-elects-new-chairman-1447893297",
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