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Dear Mr. Gates:
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Date: Tue, 3 February 2009 10:40 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: The Answer: BTN Tower On Smoky Fire
Monday 2 February 2009, early morning around 4.00 o’clock a building at central Jakarta, the BTN bank tower which is also BTN bank head office, was caught in dense smoke from a fire in the basement. Fortunately the firemen could overcome the problem, no serious damage happened, only dense smoke causing a security guard Bahrudin trapped inside at 19th floor. He lit a flashlight and turning it blinking on and off from a window to attract attention from the people down on the street. It happened around two days after my previous letter "Rahma As A Test For You And I ?" dated 31 January 2009 which mentioned "….we should be better ask God about this, let us wish that if this case really is a test for you and I, within two weeks after the date of this etter there will be a clear answer from God, without any casualties of course". As if the answer had appeared through this smoky fire at BTN tower with no one died. BTN bank is a major government-owned bank, pioneering in giving housing credits for the middle-lower income people. Some housing complexes in Indonesia contain houses which are called "BTN house", meaning that those houses are financed by BTN bank so that the buyer can pay it in monthly installment for as long as 25 years or more. It sounds relevant with the fact that today’s world economic crisis was started by the problem of housing sub-prime mortgage in the U.S.
Date: Tue, 3 February 2009 10:55 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Lite FM Inside BTN Tower Building
Another relevant thing from the smoky fire at BTN Tower on Monday 2 February 2009 is that the security guard trapped inside the 19th floor is an employee at Lite FM radio station, formerly Ramako. In 1983, when Ramako office was still at Permata Hijau shop-house block inside Permata Hijau housing complex, I once took a visit there and accepted by a presenter Bayu. He asked me to help him in drawing the listener’s names for some kind of quiz. By the time I was reading the winner’s name, someone greeted me, it appeared to be from an old friend of mine of the senior high school, Cut Riva Meutia, a girl from Aceh. She happened to be at that radio station too, but I was unable to ask what she was doing there because I was busy with my helping the radio presenter until she left. At the same Permata Hijau shop-house block, there was PT Tunas Tasik where I worked in 1983, like I mentioned in my letter "Swiss Banks Problems And The Tunas Tasik". I worked there as a sales engineer for Noverox, a Swiss made anti-corrosion product. The name Tunas Tasik has the meaning of: "bud" for the "tunas", and "lake" or "sea" for the "tasik". At that moment what came to my mind was that the meaning of Tunas Tasik was a bud of water that later on turned bigger and bigger, just like a bud from a seed that turned bigger and bigger to become a big tree. When 21 years later in 2004 the Tsunami hit some Asian countries causing more than 200 thousands victims, which was triggered by a huge 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Aceh, it surely reminds me with the "tunas tasik, a bud of water that turned bigger and bigger....."
Date: Tue, 3 February 2009 11:15 WesternIndonesiaTime Subject: Three BTN Branch Managers Died On The Sea
On 24 January 2009 or approximately one week before the smoky fire engulfed BTN head office, three branch-managers of BTN bank died at the sea in Bintan, an Indonesian island nearby Singapore. They were BTN bank Batam branch-manager Mangku Mukmin, 45, BTN Karawang branch-manager Rahmat Noviansyah, 46, and BTN Pondok Indah branch deputy-manager Imam Fajari, 39. It was supposed to be a holyday fun at the beach, but they were swallowed by the wave at around 17.00 o’clock in the afternoon. The three officials were reportedly swimming off the shore of Bintan Island after a golf session when a huge wave swept them to sea. Their bodies were recovered Saturday evening. Initially it was the manager of BTN's Mampang branch who got caught in the wave. As the rest tried to save him, another huge wave came on, eventually claiming the three deceased, according to Jakarta Post. The accident reminded me with Asian tsunami that swallowed more than 200 thousand people to die, not to mention the damage in houses, buildings, cars, road and others.
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Thank's, A.M. Firmansyah Tel. +62812 183 1538
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