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        "id": 1108459,
        "msgid": "team-to-probe-abuses-in-governor-election-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-08-11 00:00:00",
        "title": "Team to probe abuses in governor election",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Team to probe abuses in governor election JAKARTA (JP): The government has set up a team to investigate whether bribery took place during the recent election of Abdul Gafur of Golkar Party as governor of North Maluku, announced the outgoing minister of home affairs and regional autonomy Soerjadi Soedirdja. Speaking to reporters, after a ceremony to hand over his job to his successor Lt. Gen.",
        "content": "<p>Team to probe abuses in governor election<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The government has set up a team to investigate<br>\nwhether bribery took place during the recent election of Abdul<br>\nGafur of Golkar Party as governor of North Maluku, announced the<br>\noutgoing minister of home affairs and regional autonomy Soerjadi<br>\nSoedirdja.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, after a ceremony to hand over his job<br>\nto his successor Lt. Gen. Hari Sabarno, Soerjadi said the team<br>\ncomprised officials from the directorate general of regional<br>\nautonomy, the inspectorate of the Ministry of Home Affairs and<br>\nmembers of the House of Representatives Commission II on Legal<br>\nand Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\"If they find that the newly elected governor has used money<br>\npolitics then we will hold a new election,\" he said, adding that<br>\nthe team will start their investigation next week.<\/p>\n<p>Gafur, who once served as state minister of sports and youth<br>\naffairs under the administration of former president Soeharto,<br>\nwas elected on June 5 as the governor of North Maluku, replacing<br>\nacting governor Muhyi Effendie.<\/p>\n<p>However, the provincial council, after receiving reports that<br>\nAbdul Gafur gave money to two councillors to elect him, decided<br>\nto temporarily suspend the election result, pending further<br>\ninvestigation. The two councillors are M. Sahatin of Golkar Party<br>\nand Muksin Sudara of the United Development Party (PPP).<\/p>\n<p>The provincial council also recommended to the Minister of<br>\nHome Affairs to extend the term of Muhyi Effendie until a new<br>\ngovernor was elected.<\/p>\n<p>Soerjadi also revealed that he had sent letters on two<br>\nseparate occasions to East Java Governor Imam Utomo, asking him<br>\nto install the controversially elected Sampang regent Fahdilah<br>\nBudiono.<\/p>\n<p>\"But Pak Imam Utomo objected to doing it immediately as he had<br>\nto wait for conducive conditions there,\" Soerjadi said, without<br>\nfurther elaboration.<\/p>\n<p>East Java is known as the strong base of former president<br>\nAbdurrahman Wahid's Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) organization. (tso)<\/p>",
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