Meaningful changes

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