Shoe slipup

On April 17, 1997 your paper published an article headlined Shoe producers blame govt for their inefficiency by (pwn).

Since the contents substantiated the arguments used in our feasibility study for a tannery in Indonesia, we mailed a copy to our contact in Singapore who was already in preliminary talks with potential investors. The reaction was "If Indonesia produces (as claimed in your article) 1.26 million pairs of shoes at a cost of US$2.8 billion, the average cost per pair is $2,222.22."

This unfortunate clerical or printing error caused the parties involved to cast doubt on all our facts and figures stated in our feasibility study.

We approached Aprisindo for clarification but got no reply to our facsimile sent on May 2,

We hope you are in a position to rectify this discrepancy, as nobody else can provide a verified correction or authentic figures.

H. WIEDENKELLER

PT Lombok Kulit

Mataram, NTB

Note: The sentence should have read Indonesia produces 1.26 million pairs of shoes a year with an investment of US$2.8 billion." You are actually referring to information in the article with the heading Local shoe makers urged to shift business strategy" by (das), not the one mentioned in your letter. Thank you for your input.

-- Editor