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        "id": 1353590,
        "msgid": "school-graduate-may-fit-presidency-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-05-14 00:00:00",
        "title": "School graduate may fit presidency",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "School graduate may fit presidency JAKARTA: National Mandate Party (PAN) Chairman Amien Rais suggested here on Tuesday that politicians adopt a flexible stand on the minimum education requirement for presidential and vice presidential candidates. Amien argued that while a university degree was no guarantee of a good leader, as evidenced by the number of the nation's prominent leaders who do not have a degree. \"So, let's be flexible about the minimum education requirements.",
        "content": "<p>School graduate may fit presidency<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: National Mandate Party (PAN) Chairman Amien Rais<br>\nsuggested here on Tuesday that politicians adopt a flexible stand<br>\non the minimum education requirement for presidential and vice<br>\npresidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Amien argued that while a university degree was no guarantee<br>\nof a good leader, as evidenced by the number of the nation's<br>\nprominent leaders who do not have a degree.<\/p>\n<p>\"So, let's be flexible about the minimum education<br>\nrequirements. Indeed, even a professor may lack leadership<br>\nskills,\" Amien, who is also the People's Consultative Assembly<br>\n(MPR) speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Amien earned a doctorate from a university in the United<br>\nStates.<\/p>\n<p>His statement came amid a debate sparked by Golkar, which<br>\nproposed that presidential and vice presidential candidates be<br>\nuniversity graduates. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle<br>\n(PDI Perjuangan), whose leader and incumbent President Megawati<br>\nSoekarnoputri never earned a university degree, rejected the<br>\nproposal. -- Antara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/school-graduate-may-fit-presidency-1447893297",
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