Unsolicited advice

I am writing in reply to Mr. Bill Guerin's recent letter to The Jakarta Post dated Dec. 6, 1997. It strikes me that Mr. Guerin cannot be a very busy man as he appears to spend many hours on writing unimportant letters to this daily.

Indonesians may not be acquainted with network sales systems, but if that is what some company (yours perhaps?) intends to do next year with herbal remedies from the USA, I might as well think of these products as items that will be imposed upon the Indonesian public. Did not you notice that the capital is awash with herbal medicines and other food supplements all claiming that they will lower one's cholesterol or sugar levels, or any other modern illness that has struck mankind.

I have news for you, most of them are real scams since they do not heal such patients at all, which cannot be said for the Italian certificates as there are a good number of Jakartans that have built up their old age funds in this way.

Most local companies do not provide secretaries or administration assistants with a pension fund. And since a number of them have been successful in their marketing efforts and have reached the peak position, they have been cashing in their rewards. It is not at all a scam!

If you really want to help the country out, please, do it in another way. Do not provide misleading information if you do not really know anything about the subject.

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