Layer cake banned

Layer cake banned

Several weeks ago, your paper quoted the Malaysian Health
Minister as saying that his government banned a few Indonesian
layer cakes from consumption in Malaysia. In his statement he
also stressed that his ministry will conduct a laboratory test of
the cakes and will inform his Indonesian counterpart of the
result. If the test has been completed, is it possible for you to
get the result and publish it for your readers.

Although I am not a layer cake producer, I am very concerned
about the ban. Of course, the government of Malaysia has the
right to do ban goods, but this is the second ban imposed by the
Malaysian government on Indonesian products. Last year the
government also banned Indonesian jamu (herbal medicine) for the
same reason: for the sake of its citizen's health.

ROSIHAN T. SARAGIH

Jakarta