Habibie, please come to Makassar

Habibie, please come to Makassar

From Rakyat Merdeka

Mr. Habibie demonstrated his statesmanship when he attributed his withdrawal from the presidential race to maintaining national unity. I would like now to appeal to Mr. Habibie to also demonstrate the same statesmanship by visiting the demonstrating students in Makassar to make them realize that the entire population sincerely longs for unity and peace.

I also would like to appeal to Mr. Baramuli not to make use of elements relating to ethnicity, religion, racial origin and social groups in his campaigns. He should also refrain from referring to such elements on other public occasions, for example as he did in the June 7 elections when he called on the people of Irian Jaya, Maluku, Sulawesi and Kalimantan (IRAMASUKA) to vote for Habibie in order that they might not always be ordered about by the Javanese. Mr. Baramuli should also stop his money politics.

It must be realized that such campaigns as Mr. Baramuli's are tantamount to sowing the seeds of wind, while the Indonesian people are now reaping a typhoon as the harvest.

Therefore Mr. Habibie, you must show your statesmanship and meet the angry students in Makassar.

If you can pacify them, I'm convinced that you will also be successful with your plan to set up a non-governmental organization concerned with educational efforts toward national democracy and human rights.

DANIEL

Jakarta