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        "msgid": "thirty-pp-members-charged-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-04-02 00:00:00",
        "title": "Thirty PP members charged",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Thirty PP members charged JAKARTA (JP): City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Hamami Nata said yesterday 26 more members of Pemuda Pancasila (PP) have been charged with vandalism, bringing the total to 30. Hamami said the case would be processed according to the law. The West Jakarta police precinct had announced Monday that only four of those questioned about the vandalizing of five billiard centers in the Duta Mas complex, Grogol, West Jakarta, were suspects.",
        "content": "<p>Thirty PP members charged<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Hamami Nata said<br>\nyesterday 26 more members of Pemuda Pancasila (PP) have been<br>\ncharged with vandalism, bringing the total to 30.<\/p>\n<p>Hamami said the case would be processed according to the law.<\/p>\n<p>The West Jakarta police precinct had announced Monday that<br>\nonly four of those questioned about the vandalizing of five<br>\nbilliard centers in the Duta Mas complex, Grogol, West Jakarta,<br>\nwere suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Hamami said the questioning had run smoothly and no outsiders<br>\nhad tried to interfere.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on the complex by at least 60 people, wearing PP's<br>\nblack-and-red-striped military-style uniforms, happened Sunday<br>\nafternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The group from PP's Jelambar, West Jakarta, branch was led by<br>\nZainal Arifin Lubis. Antara reported that the group had asked a<br>\nprivate television station to cover the raids.<\/p>\n<p>Lubis said the raids were in line with the people's wish to<br>\neliminate gambling. PP members in particular felt very strongly<br>\nabout it, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the local authorities were not warned about the<br>\nplanned raids.<\/p>\n<p>According to City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. Aritonang, the<br>\nsuspects said the raid was not coordinated by PP's central board<br>\nof executives.<\/p>\n<p>Aritonang said the police did not condone arbitrary and<br>\ndestructive action. \"We welcome the public's participation in<br>\nhelping the police fight crime. But that does not mean they can<br>\nbe violent,\" Aritonang said.<\/p>\n<p>City Military Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Sjafrie Sjamsoedin<br>\nsaid Monday that PP was not authorized to raid the complex.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Maulana Isman, chairman of the Indonesian National<br>\nYouth Committee (KNPI), said yesterday that KNPI was against any<br>\narbitrary action.<\/p>\n<p>KNPI would not let this happen, he was quoted by Antara as<br>\nsaying at President Soeharto's residence on Jl. Cendana.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will ask PP's executive boards about the incident,\"<br>\nMaulana said.<\/p>\n<p>PP and KNPI are influential youth organizations affiliated to<br>\nthe dominant Golkar. (sur)<\/p>",
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