Obituary for Dicky and Nike

Obituary for Dicky and Nike

The article Nation bids farewell to some of its best artists
published in The Jakarta Post on Dec. 26, 1995 encouraged me to
write a letter in order to inform the Post that it did not
publish any news about Dicky Zulkarnaen, who died of a heart
attack in March, and Nike Ardilla who died in a car accident in
Bandung, also in March.

I know this because I have read the Post since 1994. All the
newspapers in Indonesia published the news of the death of these
two top artists, except the Post. I really do not understand why
the Post ignored these artists by failing to publish the news of
their deaths.

The Post did publish an obituary of a South American actress a
few weeks after we lost Dicky and Nike.

I would like an explanation. Why did this happen? Was it
intentional or editorial negligence?

ALI IMRAN

Cimahi

West Java

Note: We did run an obituary for Dicky Zulkarnaen on March 11,
1995. We did not publish one on Nike, but ran subsequent stories
on her death and its impact.

-- Editor