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        "msgid": "trial-of-akbar-starts-today-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-03-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "Trial of Akbar starts today",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Trial of Akbar starts today Annastashya Emmanuelle and Yogita Tahilramani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The trial of House Speaker Abkar Tandjung will begin on Monday at Central Jakarta District Court, making him the highest official to be brought to court under the government's campaign to fight corruption, collusion and nepotism.",
        "content": "<p>Trial of Akbar starts today<\/p>\n<p>Annastashya Emmanuelle and Yogita Tahilramani, The Jakarta Post,<br>\nJakarta<\/p>\n<p>The trial of House Speaker Abkar Tandjung will begin on Monday at<br>\nCentral Jakarta District Court, making him the highest official<br>\nto be brought to court under the government's campaign to fight<br>\ncorruption, collusion and nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>But, given Golkar's leverage against the government, the trial<br>\nof Akbar, who is also the chairman of Golkar, is seen as a ploy<br>\nto prevent the House of Representatives (DPR) from setting up an<br>\ninquiry team to investigate his alleged involvement with<br>\ncorruption.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar has been accused of misusing Rp 40 billion of State<br>\nLogistic Agency (Bulog) funds allocated for food aid in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>President Megawati Soekarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party<br>\nof Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) and Vice President Hamzah Haz's<br>\nUnited Development Party (PPP) have hinted they would back away<br>\nfrom their demands for a House inquiry team if the legal<br>\nproceedings of Akbar's corruption case runs smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, former president Abdurrahman Wahid alleged that<br>\nboth parties received a total of Rp 38 billion and Rp 24 billion<br>\nrespectively from Bulog in the run-up to the 1999 general<br>\nelection.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar's trial will be presided by Judge Amiruddin Zakaria,<br>\nwith a panel of five judges, including Judge Andi Samsan Nganro,<br>\nand I Ketut Gede.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar's chief defense lawyer, Amir Syamsuddin, said on Sunday<br>\nthat the dossiers and defense were already set, despite<br>\nskepticism voiced by the former team of lawyers that the new team<br>\nwould come ill-prepared as they had only been appointed on<br>\nFriday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Makbul Padmanagara<br>\nsaid on Sunday that hundreds of police officers including anti-<br>\nriot personnel would be deployed around Central Jakarta District<br>\nCourt on Monday, in anticipation of possible chaos involving<br>\nprotesters for and against Akbar Tandjung.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of police troops at Jakarta Police and National Police<br>\nHeadquarters will also stay on-alert in case more troops are<br>\nneeded to secure the courthouse, he said.<\/p>",
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