Unspun

The President’s chief of household Ahmad Rusdi is to be congratulated for commencing a speedy investigation into a Jakarta Post article of Jan 17 claiming that a Presidential staff had approached the Shangri-la Hotel Manager in mactan, the Philippines, to increase hotel bills during the president’s visit to Cebu last week.

His reply in a letter to the editor to the Post today certainly decisively puts to rest any suspicion that the President’s household staff was up to no good. Ahmad wrote about how serious they took such allegations, how they set up an investigation and cross-checked with the hotel’s mangement. Good for him. The Post, which often includes the editor’s response to such letters, is curiously quiet. Hmm…