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        "id": 1462717,
        "msgid": "poll-officials-to-go-on-strike-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-06-04 00:00:00",
        "title": "Poll officials to go on strike",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Poll officials to go on strike MALANG, East Java: Dozens of poll officials here have threatened to go on strike if the local government and legislature fail to disburse the budget allocated for them. A district election official told a hearing with Deputy Mayor Bambang Priyo Utomo on Wednesday he had used his own money to cover the operational cost of the committee. \"The municipal election committee has not responded to our demand, citing various excuses.",
        "content": "<p>Poll officials to go on strike<\/p>\n<p>MALANG, East Java: Dozens of poll officials here have<br>\nthreatened to go on strike if the local government and<br>\nlegislature fail to disburse the budget allocated for them.<\/p>\n<p>A district election official told a hearing with Deputy Mayor<br>\nBambang Priyo Utomo on Wednesday he had used his own money to<br>\ncover the operational cost of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\"The municipal election committee has not responded to our<br>\ndemand, citing various excuses. If ill-treated, we are prepared<br>\nto go on strike,\" the official, Sutiadji, said.<\/p>\n<p>Subdistrict and district poll officials across this hilly East<br>\nJava town have unilaterally demanded Rp 1.5 billion (US$163,000)<br>\nto build 2,046 polling stations, procure equipment and pay their<br>\nallowances.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy mayor said the local government and legislature<br>\nwere still discussing the municipal election committee's proposed<br>\nbudget of Rp 900 million. -- Antara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/poll-officials-to-go-on-strike-1447893297",
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