Harassment clarification

I write regarding Berni K. Moestafa's piece, Jeffrey Winters, critic who loves RI, in The Jakarta Post on July 17, 2002. I agree that there are high risks of politically motivated attacks if one writes or speaks critically in Indonesia.

One small point I would like to clarify concerns the case of me being mugged in Yogyakarta when Habibie was still president. The article mentioned the claims of harassment against me that emerged after the fact, but did not mention that the case was fully investigated by the police and found to be ungrounded. An official letter was issued to me by the authorities stating there was no substance to the charges and the case was quite properly closed. This fact had been mentioned in two earlier Post articles, though not in this one.

JEFFREY WINTERS, Jakarta