Overseas trip?

Overseas trip?

I was very surprised to read that some 90 members of the
working committees of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)
plan to travel abroad (including the USA, Canada and some
European countries) to disseminate information about the outcome
of the 2000 Annual Session of the MPR.

The big question here is who do the legislators work for? If
they work for the people, they should not come up with such an
outlandish idea. On top of that, don't they see the current
situation whereby people (low-income people at any rate) are
going hungry and unemployment is increasing all over the country.
Financially speaking, it would be very unwise if large sums of
money (the people's money) were to be used for such a trip.

The reasons given for the trip, namely publicizing the MPR's
decrees, are unacceptable and disproportional. I myself do not
see any need for such publicizing of the decrees abroad. It would
be more useful and beneficial if they were made known to all of
the people in Indonesia.

I hope the members concerned will remember and put into
practice what they promised to the people during the election
campaign. They probably made hundreds of promises that have yet
to be realized. The fact is that the people want to see if they
really meant what they said.

HOTIB

Bogor, West Java