Wrong stuff for Your Letters<\/p>\n
During the month of February we have seen the best and worst
\nuses of the "Your Letters" section of The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Mr. Link Luckett's early February letter regarding puasa
\nresulted in several spontaneous letters from readers which
\nincreased my knowledge about this yearly event. This, to my way
\nof thinking, is the way "Your Letters" should work: an idea or
\nopinion stated with feedback from readers leading to a greater
\nunderstanding among us all (even if Mr. Luckett did cop out in
\nhis final letter).<\/p>\n
The worst use of "Your Letters" is being displayed with boring
\nregularity by the Myanmar Embassy whose twice a week or more
\ndiatribes sully the use of this column. Correct me if I am wrong,
\nbut isn't an Embassy a political entity? If it is and it spouts
\nthe "party line" of its government, doesn't that fall into the
\nrealm of politics? And if that is true, why is The Jakarta Post
\nallowing another country's government to state its policies in
\nthe "Your Letters" section? This chap from the Myanmar Embassy is
\nnot writing as a private citizen (as Mr. Luckett did), but as a
\nrepresentative of his government -- hardly the stuff the "Your
\nLetters" section should be made of.<\/p>\n
I'd like to suggest that if the folks from this Embassy insist
\non writing their paranoid fantasies, that they be allowed to do
\nso with the caveat that The Jakarta Post put them somewhere else
\nin the newspaper. I agree with Mr. Gary Gentry's comment, except
\nthat when I see a letter from that Embassy I don't bother to read
\nit; we get enough propaganda from television adverts.<\/p>\n
JOHN R. FENTON<\/p>\n
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