Silence TV better?

I refer to the letter by Mr. Piero Ronci in your newspaper dated Aug. 31, 1995.

I have over the past six years of living in Jakarta, resisted any temptations to write a letter to your readers column, even in answer to some of Mr. Ronci's ridiculous statements over British sports. However, I have finally cracked. Mr. Ronci now wants all European Soccer commentary to be made in Indonesian, he then obviously has not listened to the analysis before the games and at half time, or if he did, he either cannot understand a word of Indonesian or he must have the same total lack of knowledge on the sport in question as well.

When and if the commentary can be made of a quality worthy of the sport, where names are pronounced correctly and historical data on games and players are correct, then I am sure we would all welcome it, then it should also be of a volume compared to the game match audio, whereby one can enjoy the match atmosphere also. Or should we all just mute the TV, and suffer in silence. Isn't the main draw to a sport the atmosphere experienced?

Mr. Ronci, enough is enough, you have now managed to fire up even the calmest of us (perhaps that is your sole objective). Why don't you spare the room in the readers column for much greater interesting subject matter? I am sure that most of the readers would agree with me, we've had enough from you.

ADRIAN BULPIN

Jakarta