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Dear Mr. Gates:
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Date: Thu, 10 April 2008 11:42 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: President's Message About Responsibility
On 8 April 2008, at Lemhannas, the Indonesian Institution of National Defense, Indonesian president SBY during his speech in front of the regents took sometime to pause and reprimanding certain regents who looked sleepy. Of course it has nothing to do with me since I am not a regent. But in his reprimanding he mentioned the word 'responsibility', that becomes significant for me related with Rahma Sarita's case. A few days earlier on 29 March 2008 I wrote a letter to Mr. Wardy, my former supervisor at American Express, informing him that in the previous night I was unable to sleep because I felt uncomfortable with the recent news about Rahma Sarita's marriage status. As mentioned in his letter to me on 5 March 2008, Mr. Wardy used the words "ex-husband of Rahma Sarita", that made me wonder what would be the implication on me. I have written about this matter more than once to him to get more explanation, but so far no answer has been given to me. When in 2001 came the news about Rahma's marriage, it made me feel easier because I thought by then the responsibility should be on her husband. Now that Mr. Wardy has informed me with the words "ex-husband of Rahma Sarita", does that mean that I should be responsible on her again or what. If a mandate was given to me in some kind of trusteeship to watch over something, for example a house, I should never ask the house whether or not it would like me to watch over it. But when a mandate is given to me in a form of human, a woman, of course I should first ask her whether or not she likes me to take care, to be responsible, of her.
Date: Thu, 10 April 2008 12:12 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Vice President Jusuf Kalla's Interview With TV-One After My Fax to Rahma
8 April 2008 in the morning around 7 AM, an interview with Vice President Jusuf Kalla was held by TV-One at Wisma Nusantara building, Jakarta, regarding some significant issues like the increasing global price of food and oil, and its effect to the Indonesian people. The host was Mr. Karni Ilyas, the director of news, sport and production of TV-One. It becomes important for me, since it happened two days after I sent a fax of my birthday greetings for Rahma Sarita, that also contains a question with multiple choice answer. The question was about requesting her advice to the probability of my getting married soon. So far no answer has been given to me.
Date: Thu, 10 April 2008 12:25 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: The Question Requesting Rahma's Advice
The question requesting Rahma's advice to the probability of my getting married soon was as follows:
What do you think will be fit for me considering that I have been 50 years old now, 1. Concentrate on obtaining some good earnings first, and later on get married. 2. Just get married, because later on there will be the bounty from God, since there are many others who also started their marriage live in low-rented houses when they just got married, and even some of them should also sell their wedding rings to pay certain expenses. 3. If your answer is number 2, then who do you think will want to get married with me.
So far no answer has been given. This no answer situation could easily turn me into a conclusion that she just does not want me, does not like me, not even just to give me any advice related with marriage. So it could be the problem since the beginning, she just never wanted me, so I just need to respect her right to choose whoever she likes. Now I think this is important to be clarified here, because so often the blame was on me, as if I was late to make more approach on her, and so on. I think I just need to give her the freedom to choose whatever she thinks is fit for her, and avoid any notion that I was the one who try to get rid of her.
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Thank's, A.M. Firmansyah Tel. +62812 183 1538
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