Foreign exchange rates

Foreign exchange rates

I am referring to Mr. de Jong's letter on Sept. 27. I really
appreciated your ardent reminder to The Jakarta Post, due to
their once omitting the Foreign Exchange Rates, and -- as if they
hadn't paid any attention to your absolutely necessary facsimile
in this matter -- even daring to commit the same sin a second
time.

How empty were these two mornings when both of us, and
probably hundreds of other expats in this country, were looking
in vain for this eminent section, thus not knowing whether their
dollars, DMs, or whatever had gone up again or not. And how much
I agree with your statement about all these unnecessary
advertisements (only, for financing the Post they are probably
not that unimportant).

Yes, indeed, such a mistake should never, ever happen again.
More international news, yes please, and what the heck with all
these national news articles we care so much for, don't we?
Especially as, like you say, we are all so fluent in Indonesian
that we had better stick to, let's say, Kompas or Business Week.
Oh yes, I feel with you, being one of the one percent knowing
better what's going on in this country than those primitive
pribumi (indigenous people). Under colonialism, such mistakes
never would have happened.

WERNER WASMUTH

Bandung, West Java