Sampoerna Foundation clarifies

Sampoerna Foundation clarifies

First of all, I, on behalf of the Sampoerna Foundation, would
like to express our deepest gratitude for your coverage related
to our latest project to build a high school in Yogyakarta.

However, we would like to clarify the following in the article
titled World-class school to be built in Yogya (The Jakarta Post,
Dec. 9):

1. Elan Merdy is Sampoerna Foundation's chief operating
officer and not "the school's chief operating officer Elan
Merdy."

2. Sampoerna Foundation is an independent non-governmental
organization that focuses on providing access to and improving
the quality of education and not "the foundation, a social wing
of giant tobacco firm PT HM Sampoerna, is a non-governmental
institution that focuses on education."

Since May 18, 2005, when Philip Morris International acquired
PT HM Sampoerna Tbk (HMS), there has been no organizational
relation between the Sampoerna Foundation and PT HMS. The only
relation that still exists between the Sampoerna Foundation and
HMS is a donor-recipient relation.

SAPTO H. SAKTI, director of marketing and communications,
Sampoerna Foundation, Jakarta

Note: Thank you for the correction.

--Editor