More Islamic music, please

More Islamic music, please

From Republika

MetroTV should be lauded for its intensive reporting of the recent tidal waves affecting Aceh and North Sumatra as well as its communications with survivors of the calamity.

In order to ensure that the aid provided will not separate the Aceh people from their Islamic roots, I would like to suggest that MetroTV's background music for the news have more of an Islamic tone, such as the songs, recitations and chants of Raihan, Aa Gym and Arifin Ilham.

Apart from money, clothing and clean water, MetroTV should also make available prayer kits for children and adults -- Muslim prayer outfits, the Holy Koran, radio cassette players and recordings of recitations and sermons by Arifin Ilham and Aa Gym as well as Islamic children's books.

We all appreciate the airing of recitations of the Koran's verses by Imam As Sudais in several of the MetroTV programs for Aceh. The same gratitude goes to the Republika daily for its soothing articles and reports on Aceh children.

BUDIARTI JOESOEF Tangerang, Banten