Telkom rates

I wrote recently to commend The Jakarta Post on the "vastly improved" quality of its writing (May 31, 1997), but ironically you mangled my letter by rewording parts and inserting and deleting at will.

I look forward some day to commending you on the quality of your vastly improved editing. In any event, I am writing to correct the error. You quoted me as having said that my Telkom rates had increased "an astounding 50 percent to 60 percent", when in fact my rates were 50 percent to 650 percent higher. A 650 percent increase over five months is indeed astounding.

LOUISE OWENS

Jakarta

Note: You are right. We regret the inadvertent error.

-- Editor