'Facilitating payment' denied

In The Jakarta Post of Oct. 10, 1995, under the heading "Facilitating Payments" was a letter attributed to Macon Hawkins of Pekanbaru.

My name is Macon Hawkins and my address is Pekanbaru, though I am now on vacation in Singapore. Several people have asked if I wrote the letter you printed.

I want to make it very clear that I did not write that letter. Nor did I have occasion to make the "facilitating" payment to the police described in the letter.

My company takes care of getting my work permit, and I have not had any problem with that. As far as I know, neither has my company.

Macon V. Hawkins

Pekanbaru, Riau

Note: We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the previous letter whose writer misrepresented himself by using your name.