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        "msgid": "vp-defends-paramilitary-groups-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-04-03 00:00:00",
        "title": "VP defends paramilitary groups",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "VP defends paramilitary groups JAKARTA: Vice President Hamzah Haz said that the paramilitary groups affiliated to the various political parties were necessary, but they needed to change their military-style approach to a moral one. Hamzah, chairman of the United Development Party (PPP), said on Tuesday that such groups had to avoid violence in achieving their objectives.",
        "content": "<p>VP defends paramilitary groups<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA: Vice President Hamzah Haz said that the paramilitary<br>\ngroups affiliated to the various political parties were<br>\nnecessary, but they needed to change their military-style<br>\napproach to a moral one.<\/p>\n<p>Hamzah, chairman of the United Development Party (PPP), said<br>\non Tuesday that such groups had to avoid violence in achieving<br>\ntheir objectives.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a statement from Minister of Defense<br>\nMatori Abdul Djalil that paramilitary groups affiliated to<br>\npolitical parties needed to be dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>Hamzah, whose party controls a number of paramilitary groups,<br>\nincluding the Ka&apos;bah Youth Movement (GPK), the Ka&apos;bah Youths<br>\n(AMK), and the Ka&apos;bah Brigade, said that the groups were allowed<br>\nto wear military-style attire. The Indonesian Military has asked<br>\nall paramilitary groups not to dress in military outfits for fear<br>\nof causing abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President added that the party&apos;s paramilitary groups<br>\ncould continue to play a useful role in maintaining security<br>\nduring mass gatherings held outside Islamic boarding schools. --<br>\nAntara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/vp-defends-paramilitary-groups-1447893297",
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