TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:House of Representatives legislator Eva Kusuma Sundari said on Monday that she believed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had lost his sensitivity and had therefore failed to capture the essence of what the Indonesian people needed. A legislator from the opposition, the Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-P), Eva said that for President Yudhoyono to reply to a letter from graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin, was not the correct move. "He [President] seems to be caught up in his own personal need, which is [putting up an] image," Eva told TEMPO. She pointed out that this letter from Nazaruddin, who pleaded with President Yudhoyono to leave his family out of graft scandals plaguing him and to punish him instead, had been replied within three days. On the other hand, more than a thousand letters from the Indonesian people were left unattended.

Indria Fernida, the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violences (Kontras) Working Board deputy coordinator, said that families of the May 1998 Trisakti incident victims and other victims of human rights violations have protested outside the presidential palace every Thursday and sent letters to the President for his attention. A total of 192 letters were sent. None were replied, said Fernida.