Please, consider your parking

At a time when students in Jakarta should be helping to alleviate people's suffering rather than aggravate it, "The Reform Campus" (Trisakti Campus) has decided to adopt the latter by commandeering the main road outside the campus as a parking lot. I would personally like to thank them in taking this initiative so that, as we drive at a snail pace down that particular road due to the congestion caused, we can reflect on the similarity between arrogant government officials and equally arrogant university students.

If your idea of reform is to park cars four-deep across a main road (that is now patrolled by gangster-style parking attendants), and by doing so ignore the plight of motorists and pedestrians alike, then I would like to know in what way the "reform" campus considers this beneficial to anyone but themselves.

If the students want to better understand people's suffering, then perhaps they should get on the bus and sweat it out with everyone else as bus drivers attempt to negotiate the parked cars in the middle of the road. Better still, just trade your car in for a little bit of consideration.

JOHN C. TORR

Jakarta