Yoke, not yolk

I have been reading The Jakarta Post for over four years now and generally enjoy it very much.

Of course, like in every newspaper, sometimes printing errors have occurred. In "Your Letters" of the Aug. 19 issue there was one that should not go unnoticed.

Mr. E. Kartaamidjaja refers in his letter Bung Karno's testament to the liberation of Indonesia from the Dutch colonial yolk. However, a yolk is the yellow part of an egg.

What Mr. Kartaamidjaja presumably wants to refer to is the liberation from the Dutch colonial yoke, literally a wooden frame for attaching the necks of a pair of animals, figuratively used for an oppressive burden.

ANNEKE DEN HOEDT

Jakarta

Note: Thank you for your attention.

-- Editor