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        "msgid": "teachers-issue-strike-threat-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-04-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "Teachers issue strike threat",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Teachers issue strike threat CIANJUR, West Java: Some 12,000 teachers here have threatened to go on strike and hold mass demonstrations next week to denounce the government's lack of attention to their welfare. Antara reported the teachers were fully prepared for the action. \"We are serious about the threat because we are tired of being politically and socially suppressed,\" one of the teachers said on Friday.",
        "content": "<p>Teachers issue strike threat<\/p>\n<p>CIANJUR, West Java: Some 12,000 teachers here have threatened<br>\nto go on strike and hold mass demonstrations next week to<br>\ndenounce the government's lack of attention to their welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Antara reported the teachers were fully prepared for the<br>\naction.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are serious about the threat because we are tired of being<br>\npolitically and socially suppressed,\" one of the teachers said on<br>\nFriday.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy chairman of the local Indonesian Teachers Union (PGRI)<br>\nZainal Hafidin confirmed the plan. \"These teachers are ignored<br>\nall the time. So it is necessary for them to go on strike,\" he<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Hafidin said the recent rulings by the local administration<br>\nthat restrict school supervisory positions to teachers with<br>\nmaster's degree and the scrapping of rice allowances provoked the<br>\nteachers to strike.<\/p>\n<p>\"The regulation is a heavy blow to teachers who have been in<br>\nservice for years but do not hold the degree,\" he added. (dja)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/teachers-issue-strike-threat-1447893297",
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