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        "msgid": "villagers-protest-at-electricity-office-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-06-26 00:00:00",
        "title": "Villagers protest at electricity office",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Villagers protest at electricity office JAKARTA (JP): More than 150 people demonstrated outside an office of state-owned electricity company PT PLN in South Jakarta yesterday against a high-voltage cable installed over their land near Bogor. The protesters, from Ciseeng and Ciheuk villages, arrived at the office on Jl. Trunojoyo in two buses. They carried banners and read poems condemning the installation and the fact that their land had not been appropriated. Some carried a mock coffin.",
        "content": "<p>Villagers protest at electricity office<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): More than 150 people demonstrated outside an<br>\noffice of state-owned electricity company PT PLN in South Jakarta<br>\nyesterday against a high-voltage cable installed over their land<br>\nnear Bogor.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, from Ciseeng and Ciheuk villages, arrived at<br>\nthe office on Jl. Trunojoyo in two buses.<\/p>\n<p>They carried banners and read poems condemning the<br>\ninstallation and the fact that their land had not been<br>\nappropriated. Some carried a mock coffin.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the villagers, Saali, said at least 500<br>\nvillagers from the area had become ill with bad headaches and<br>\nother sicknesses after the high-voltage cable was installed.<\/p>\n<p>\"We bring our wives and children here because we can't stand<br>\nliving under the cable any longer,\" he said. \"It affects our<br>\nlives and health.\"<\/p>\n<p>Saali said the villages wanted their land to be appropriated<br>\nso that they could receive compensation and move from the land.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the villagers, Adian, said PLN should pay<br>\ncompensation based on the tax value of the property, which was Rp<br>\n40,000 (US$16.60) per square meter.<\/p>\n<p>He said PLN had indicated that it would not appropriate the<br>\nland because the Ministry of Mines and Energy had decided that<br>\nthe cable was not a danger.<\/p>\n<p>But Adian said that according to Law No. 15\/1985, PLN is<br>\nrequired to appropriate land under high-voltage cables.<\/p>\n<p>\"So which has more authority, a ministerial decision or the<br>\nlaw,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>PLN spokesman Abbas Thaha met 10 villagers and told them that<br>\nPLN always accepted demands according to the law.<\/p>\n<p>He said the company would deploy experts to make a study on<br>\nthe high-voltage cable.<\/p>\n<p>\"But PLN directors will need to discuss the matter first<br>\nbefore our people visit the location,\" he said. \"We can't decide<br>\nthat now.\" (jun)<\/p>",
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