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        "id": 1611818,
        "msgid": "prabowo-cites-pakistans-salary-cuts-for-parliamentarians-and-ministers-amid-us-iran-conflict-impact-1773413545",
        "date": "2026-03-13 21:04:08",
        "title": "Prabowo Cites Pakistan's Salary Cuts for Parliamentarians and Ministers Amid US-Iran Conflict Impact",
        "author": "Robertus Belarminus",
        "source": "KOMPAS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "President Prabowo Subianto cited Pakistan as an example during a cabinet meeting on 13 March 2026, noting that the country has implemented emergency measures including salary reductions for cabinet members and legislators in response to the Middle East crisis, treating the situation as critically as the Covid-19 pandemic. Prabowo highlighted Pakistan's additional austerity measures such as mandatory work-from-home policies, reduced working weeks to four days, fuel conservation restrictions on government vehicles, and temporary school closures to demonstrate how other nations are responding to regional instability.",
        "content": "<p>JAKARTA \u2013 President Prabowo Subianto raised the example of countries\nsuch as Pakistan that have cut salaries for members of parliament and\nministers amid the crisis situation caused by Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>According to Prabowo, Pakistan has classified this situation as\ncritical, comparable to the previous Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have even reduced salaries for cabinet members and\nparliamentary members. And all these salary savings are collected to\nhelp the most vulnerable and weakest groups,\u201d said Prabowo during a\nCabinet Meeting at the Palace in Jakarta on Friday, 13 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Prabowo noted that Pakistan has also implemented work\nfrom home (WFH) for all government and private offices.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, their working days have been reduced to just four days\nper week to conserve fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have cut all fuel supplies for all ministries. And they have\nrequired 60 per cent of government vehicles to be unused at all times,\u201d\nhe said.<\/p>\n<p>Prabowo stated that other countries have also halted foreign visits\nto achieve savings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have reduced the use of government funds for parties and\nsimilar events. Then, all their higher education institutions have\nshifted to online, and all schools have stopped for two weeks,\u201d said\nPrabowo.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/prabowo-cites-pakistans-salary-cuts-for-parliamentarians-and-ministers-amid-us-iran-conflict-impact-1773413545",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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