Foreign victims prioritized?

Your correspondent claims that "foreign victims were prioritized over local victims in terms of treatment" after the Bali blast.

There is no proof of this outrageous statement which is an insult to the Indonesian emergency service teams, doctors and nurses involved and even if in some cases special care was shown toward the foreign victims, there is surely the Indonesian -- and Islamic-cultural tradition of caring for guests in one's home or country.

He goes on to say that this suggests that foreigners are racially superior. I feel it suggests a pathetic inferiority complex in a Mr. Jamal.

CHRISTOPHER R. MCRAE, Jakarta