I do mourn its passing as Indonesia could use another English language paper, but whoever sets it up needs a bit of focus, and crucially, needs to make it something different. The Point offered nothing new; it was messy, shambolic, had no “voice”. It carried wire news stories on its “comment” page for god’s sake, which suggests that who ever was putting it together had no idea what a paper was supposed to look like….

I think there could be a market for a proper weekend paper with suppliments, but as the demise of The Indonesian Observer a few years ago and The Point now suggests, dear old Jakarta Post is all we need; there is no call for another daily…

Weekly Bali Times in Bali is pretty good actually…