Tue, 30 Mar 2004

Clarifying some errors

On Friday, March 26, The Jakarta Post published an opinion piece of mine entitled Malaysians shun theocratic society.

In the following passage, the percentage of indigenous Malays is 48 percent and not 38 percent, and they are known as bumiputras, and not pribumi, a term used to refer to their Indonesian counterparts. THANG NGUYEN Jakarta