Unspun

This is an e-mail posting from Eric Ness, who blogs about his father’s trial in the Buyat Bay case. Unspun can’t make out whether Eric is naive or crafty. I wonder who finances the book?

Richard Ness [015] Buyat Bay Dive In To It

A book entitled An Underwater Guide To Buyat Bay and Surrounding Areas North Sulawesi was just published by the South Minahasa & North Sulawesi Tourism Office. I got permission to post the entire book on the site. I would like to invite you to take a look at this because one, the photography is extremely beautiful showing a wide variety of marine life and two, I see this as additional evidence of how ridiculous the charges are against my father.

This book was written by Jerry Kojansow, David Sompie, Laurentius Th. X Lalamentik, Msc and Djonline Emor, Msi. The beautiful photographs where provided by Jerry Kojansow and Robert Humberson.

The irony in this is that two of the authors, David Sompie and Jerry Konjansow – who I have partly dedicated this web site to – were two of Dad’s staff who were declared suspects and spent 32 day unjustly detained early on in the same cells with terrorist involved in the Australian Embassy bombing. Even after such treatment, these fine individuals still performed their civic duty (in collaboration with dedicated people from the marine department of the local University and the provincial government) doing their part in promoting tourism and sharing the natural beauty of Northern Sulawesi and Buyat Bay for all the world to see. They did not do so for money or personal fame, they did so to try and correct the damaged image caused by baseless allegations of pollution in what is truly a non-polluted pristine marine environment. It is the image of North Sulawesi that they are trying to preserve.

Read the rest of the blog here:

http://richardness.org/blog/buyatbaydiveintoit.php

Check out the book:

http://richardness.org/media/buyatbay/

Take Care,
Eric