Meaningful changes

It was nice to see my article Students deserve peace prize published in The Jakarta Post on Oct. 7, 1999. Unfortunately some editing changed the substance of the article, particularly paragraph 19 where the formulation "old corporative organization" (the remnants of the functional group and similar organizations among which the General Elections Commission (KPU) appointed representatives to the People's Consultative Assembly was replaced by "old conglomerates".

Some conglomerates may well have been represented, but they were not granted representation. Hence the formulation is now totally faulty and undermines my own credibility as well as the other conclusions in the article.

For certain people, a corporative organization may only signal a business company. But especially when "organization" is added to "corporative", the reference is to a corporate state and to corporations of people.

OLLE TORNQUIST

Oslo, Norway