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        "id": 1344776,
        "msgid": "retired-officers-told-to-prioritize-national-interests-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-01-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Retired officers told to prioritize national interests",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Retired officers told to prioritize national interests Tiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto told retired military officers on Wednesday to prioritize national interests over personal or group interests. He also urged retired servicemen to pursue their political ambitions through constitutional means and to take into account ethics and morality in advancing their political goals.",
        "content": "<p>Retired officers told to prioritize national interests<\/p>\n<p>Tiarma Siboro, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto told<br>\nretired military officers on Wednesday to prioritize national<br>\ninterests over personal or group interests.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged retired servicemen to pursue their political<br>\nambitions through constitutional means and to take into account<br>\nethics and morality in advancing their political goals.<\/p>\n<p>\"As the military chief, I can only appeal to retired<br>\nmilitary officers, who are former soldiers, to put national<br>\ninterests above personal ambition just like when they were still<br>\nactive in the military service,\" Endriartono said at the<br>\nCilangkap TNI Headquarters in East Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Endriartono did not mention any name, but his appeal came<br>\nafter reports surfaced that former TNI chief Gen. (retired)<br>\nWiranto planned to topple President Megawati Soekarnoputri by<br>\nfunding antigovernment protests by students and trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Wiranto, the government was reportedly looking at<br>\nother actors behind the street rallies. They are believed to be<br>\nformer minister of finance and National Mandate Party (PAN)<br>\nlawmaker Fuad Bawazier, former cooperative minister and incumbent<br>\nchairman of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals<br>\n(ICMI) Adi Sasono and former executive of Megawati's Indonesian<br>\nDemocratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) Eros Djarot.<\/p>\n<p>Their names came to surface after National Intelligence Agency<br>\n(BIN) chief A.M. Hendropriyono reportedly singled them out during<br>\na Cabinet meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Eros and Adi Sasono have denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that TNI Headquarters no longer had authority over<br>\nretired officers, Endriartono declined to comment on Wiranto's<br>\nalleged involvement in plans to oust Megawati, saying: \"I have no<br>\nright to tell the public whether I have any knowledge of it.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is no longer any command relations between us. We only<br>\nhave emotional ties now,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Endriartono also asked protesters to avoid disorder in<br>\nexpressing their aspirations or \"face stern action in line with<br>\nprevailing laws\".<\/p>",
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