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        "id": 1439262,
        "msgid": "politicians-lack-education-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-05-28 00:00:00",
        "title": "Politicians lack education",
        "author": null,
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        "summary": "Politicians lack education MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Over 30 percent of the 559 legislative candidates for the Mataram mayoralty legislative council are elementary school graduates, an official revealed on Thursday. The legal minimum education level for a legislative candidate is junior high school. Abd. Hamid Faesal, chief of the Mataram elections committee, said the legislative candidates' lack of formal education had put the committee in a difficult situation.",
        "content": "<p>Politicians lack education<\/p>\n<p>MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Over 30 percent of the 559<br>\nlegislative candidates for the Mataram mayoralty legislative<br>\ncouncil are elementary school graduates, an official revealed on<br>\nThursday.<\/p>\n<p>The legal minimum education level for a legislative candidate<br>\nis junior high school.<\/p>\n<p>Abd. Hamid Faesal, chief of the Mataram elections committee,<br>\nsaid the legislative candidates' lack of formal education had put<br>\nthe committee in a difficult situation.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have to discuss the matter with the political parties<br>\ncontesting next month's election,\" he told Antara.<\/p>\n<p>Only 38 of the 48 parties have branch offices to attract the<br>\n185,200 voters in Mataram.<\/p>\n<p>Faesal said if political parties did not have candidates with<br>\nhigher education qualifications, the committee might have to<br>\naccept the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\"But then they have to face public scrutiny,\" he said.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/politicians-lack-education-1447893297",
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