Arrogant UI lecturer

Arrogant UI lecturer

From Bisnis Indonesia

After visiting an ailing relative on Aug. 21, I, my wife and two children went home by motorbike to Srengseng Sawah, South Jakarta, passing the road where the campus of the University of Indonesia (UI) is located.

Right in front of the UI School of Public Health, my child (aged 3), who was sitting in front, accidentally honked the horn. A man in a Feroza sedan on our left, feeling displeased, got out of the car, and started barking and spitting at us. We apologized and thought the matter was settled.

Just several meters from the spot, the man whom we later came to know as Untung, a lecturer at the university, intentionally bumped our motorbike with his car and again got out to swear at us using abusive language, even threatening to kill me.

While all this was taking place, three security guards were patrolling the area. My wife, unable to accept this treatment, called out to the guards for help. But they were afraid to act because they said Untung was a high ranking official at UI.

Still dissatisfied with his rude behavior, he arrogantly told one of the guards to take us into his car. Fortunately the guard did not obey and asked us to leave.

We realize our position as ordinary people vis-a-vis a university official. We only wish the lecturer or the UI authorities will apologize to us by answering this letter.

IRVAN SEPTIARDI

Jakarta