Mon, 09 Sep 1996

Land agency's clarification

State Minister of Agrarian Affairs/Chairman of the National Land Agency Soni Harsono has instructed us to make a correction on the report in the front page of The Jakarta Post of Aug. 29, 1996 under the heading: Beware of politicized land feuds.

The report stated that the minister said he received the list of NGOs, which claimed to represent the people in land disputes, from the World Bank.

We would like to clarify the matter as follows: "The State Minister of Agrarian Affairs did not mention in the interview that he had got the list of the 65 organizations in question from the World Bank."

MARTONO

Bureau of Legal Affairs

and Public Relations

National Land Agency

Jakarta