`Schindler's List'

The final decision of the Film Censorship Agency (BSF) to ban the showing of Schindler's List because it contains too much violence and pornography is causing bewilderment. What if we compare this film with some Indonesian as well as foreign films?

Why doesn't the BSF edit or cut the parts that show violence and pornography, as it does with other films? That the director of Schindler's List will object to editing or cutting and withdraw the film is none of our business.

The comments by Lukman Harun, Chairman of the Committee for Moslem Solidarity, saying the film will only create more problems, are illogical; it is felt that the film teaches how to resort to violence and incite hatred.

The film tells about efforts to save 1,100 Poles of Jewish descent from genocide by the Nazis, doesn't it? How could it be regarded as Zionist propaganda? Let the community have a chance to form its own opinions! Or is the society so immature that the people's emotions are easily aroused?

The comments by film critic Rosihan Anwar are even more puzzling. On one hand he agreed to the ban of the film; on the other hand, he suggested that the younger generation see the film.

ILHAM DJAJA

Jakarta