Magsaysay Award correction

Magsaysay Award correction

I would to clarify on an article on Teten among Magsaysay award winners on the front page of the Aug. 2 edition.

My grandfather Raden Kodijat received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in May 1961 for his effort and dedication to freeing the Indonesian people from a disfiguring and crippling disease. The profile of Raden Kodijat can be retrieved from the Ramon Magsaysay website.

On the list provided from the same website, Raden Kodijat was mistakenly put under "Indian" country. I have communicated with the office of Ramon Magsaysay Foundation in the Philippines to make the correction. But I also would like to request that your newspaper put his name down as an Indonesian Ramon Magsaysay awardee in the year of 1961 for the category of government service.

NAINDRA ERICA KODIJAT, Jakarta

Note: Thank you for the information.

--Editor