We would like to respond to Kwik Kian Gie’s comments in the Letters section of TEMPO edition 18-24 September. In the last paragraph, there was a very disturbing sentence: "…no matter how unreasonable and unfair the IMF was in certain matters, when they insisted on using the principle of "pokoknya"(I say this), I always had to give in, since Indonesia was in the position of a beggar nation."

As members of the teaching staff at the Taman