Free trade and protectionism

Free trade and protectionism

In your headline Free trade is a must: Soeharto (The Jakarta
Post, Dec. 20, 1994), you wrote: "Neither Soeharto nor Ginandjar
explicitly referred to the Chandra Asri debate."

The problem is: under this sub-heading, Soeharto did not utter
anything special about protectionism. So, how come you could
write "... Neither Soeharto nor Ginandjar ..."

I think this mistake is a serious problem since you proclaimed
that your newspaper is the (most) important newspaper in
Indonesia.

TRI BUDHI SATRIO

Surabaya, East Java

Note: It is true that Soeharto did not say anything directly
about protectionism. But free trade implies an absence of
protectionism, an issue linked with Chandra Asri.

-- Editor