Forum: Forest stewardship

Wed, 07/23/2008 10:52 AM  |  Reader's Forum

I would be more than happy if more Indonesian forestry companies worked toward certification. Perhaps B.W. van Assen (The Jakarta Post, July 18, p. 7) needs a brief lesson on just what percentage of all forestry companies in Indonesia they really make up.
KUSUMAH
Jakarta

Comedy gets warning -- July 8, p. 9

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) should ban uneducated soap operas (sinetrons). Those sinetrons teach bad behavior like yelling, hating friends, luring people into danger, etc.
SNYDEZ
Jakarta

Timor Leste and us -- July 16, p. 6

I reffer to a comment made by Tomaso Tettamanti, (The Jakarta Post, July 22, p. 7).

Indonesia is a revolving nation, with 17,000 islands, hundreds of different ethnical groups and languages. That is what makes it so special.

Swiss has only 41,000 square kilometers, just a little bit bigger than the island of Timor (31,000 square kilometers). Have you tried to compare the size of Indonesia (1,919,440 square kilometers -- 16th largest country in the world) to other countries?

Do you know how difficult it is to maintain such diversity in unity? Even the mighty Soviet Union couldn't maintain its territory, loosing Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Turkmenistan. That is how hard it is to run a nation that wide.

There is law in Indonesia. And the government have national priorities. It cannot satisfy all, only the majority. By the way, there are no chances of other provinces of Indonesia, other than former East Timor, to legally achieve independence from Indonesia.
MOHAMMAD ALI
Jakarta

Message for policemen

Please be firm in upholding the law. Why can't you do something about the buses that stop and not at the bus stops, such as in front of and across from the Trakindo building in Cilandak, South Jakarta?

If you let them use it as a terminal, it'll be hard to evacuate them. Or are you getting illegal fees from them? Shame on you if that's the case.
JANTI BARBARA
Jakarta

Counterfeit drugs

Counterfeit drugs enter the market when the prices of original drugs are exorbitant as compared to the cost of manufacturing them. The Indonesian pharma companies should reduce their prices to the level as prevailing in India and make them affordable.

Once the difference between cost of raw materials and sale price is not exorbitant, counterfeit drugs will disappear.

Also Indonesian pharma companies must print maximum retail prices of drugs on their packaging as is done by the Indian pharma industry due to legal requirements. A presidential decree to that effect is, in fact, overdue!
K. B. KALE
Jakarta

How about foreign drug stores? Do they sell counterfeit drugs too? If no, then it poses no threat. If yes, then the problem is serious because consumers have high expectations from those foreign drug stores.
RUDY D. SALIM
Jakarta

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