Reporting on Aceh

Fri, 25 Jul 2003, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

Reporting on Aceh

I agree wholeheartedly with Hilda May's comment in The Jakarta
Post on July 15, regarding Aboeprijadi's article Unspoken protest
amid prolonged war in Aceh.

The article is a black-and-white picture of government forces
as the bad guys and the rebel forces as the good guys.

Readers of the Post, consisting of educated Indonesians and
expatriates, should not readily swallow such an unbalanced
report. We readers of the Post seem to be at the mercy of
mediocre journalists, who are incapable of producing an
intellectually valid, neutral and objective report. What a shame!

SUMARSONO SASTROWARDOYO, Tangerang, Banten

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