Absenteeism

Referring to the news report in The Jakarta Post on Sept. 24, 1994 entitled Students protest high absenteeism which was related to the letter by the Institution of Students of the Economic School, dated Sept. 14, 1994 No 001/LKFE/UKSW/IX/1994 containing among other things:

1. Hundreds of the economic students of the Christian Satya Wacana University staged a protest against absenteeism among lecturers.

2. The protest was staged because some lecturers had failed to lecture as they were moonlighting in other colleges.

Therefore the management of the institution deems it necessary to put things straight and to clarify the report as follows:

1. Until the news was printed, the reporter concerned never asked for confirmation from the institution management about the news.

2. The institution had never issued a press release concerning internal affairs of the economic school.

3. No protest was staged by the students on Sept. 24, 1994 as reported by the reporter of The Jakarta Post. What actually happened was that the students of the economic school were doing registration for collecting the lecture subjects.

This letter should serve as a correction to the inaccurate report.

SETIAWAN W

Head of Students

Senate, Economic School

Satya Wacana Christian University

Salatiga, Central Java