TEMPO’s Special Report on PLN in edition 18-24 September has encouraged me to comment, both as an insider who has worked more than 22 years for PLN, and as one of 210 million citizens of Indonesia who have been fooled for too long by their leaders.

It’s true that PLN is already halfway burned out. The regulation that was dictated and forced upon us—classified as "confidential"—actually had to be disobeyed. PLN should let th