MPR Speaker needs escort

MPR Speaker needs escort

From Republika

According to the Republka issue of Oct. 16, the speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) plans to visit Sumatra in the near future to assess land issues. He seems to be trying to fill the gap left by the President who is busy touring the world.

With the present condition of this country, the MPR speaker might be in need of an escort for his personal safety. Who knows if there will be people with bad intentions along the way.

In the 1960s, then U.S. president J. F. Kennedy, who was close to his people, was killed in Dallas. I am making the above suggestion because the MPR speaker does not like being escorted as he thinks one's safety is in the hands of God.

S. WIRYODIJOYO

Yogyakarta