Dayaks and development

I thank you for your coverage on my speech at a book launch at Ibis Hotel in The Jakarta Post (Saturday, April 13, 1996) under the heading Dayaks query govt development plan. However, your reporter made an uncompromisable error in quoting my opinion. In the sixth paragraph, for example, your reporter quoted me as saying, "One consequence of the poorly coordinated development program, ...the Dayak's practice of burning down forest without realizing the environmental damage they were causing" is just the opposite of what I said.

Secondly, the second paragraph from bottom says that I accuse government officials is your reporter's personal interpretation of my point on the process of the demolition of the longhouse in West Kalimantan.

STEPANUS

Pontianak, West Kalimantan