Letter to all the destinaries of Mr Hartono’s emails.

Dear Sirs,

We refer to the message called “Techno-terrorism”currently more dangerous and damaging than JI or Al-Qaeda” and “Malaysian evidence “indisputable”, government must act to protect the nation “ dated June 23, 2010 , and August 22, 2010 sent by email to the Malaysian government Authorities by Mr Hartono Zainal Abidin .

Mr Hartono has been involved for many years in an unsuccessful lobbying action to deprive Malaysia of an existing worldwide technology: ESE lightning protection. But this time he has apparently lost his “self-control” acting beyond the right of expression. His messages are obviously extremists and defamatory for European industrial companies, and European national standardization organizations. For your information, it is attached a Memorandum which has been prepared by expert members of ILPA in order to provide technical information and precise arguments to the Malaysian Government further the slanderous and misleading information included in Mr Hartono messages

Furthermore, this document gives an overview of the industry active in the ESE lightning conductors and provides major references that demonstrate the large deployment of this technique worldwide and the high degree of security of the installations. This Memorandum is focused on the issues raised by Mr Hartono such as “it would exist some ambiguity about the safety of E.S.E lightning conductors which would leave some doubt about the effectiveness and the safety of these products.” It will be demonstrated that the level of safety provided by ESE standards in force in Europe is the same as for the EN 62 305 techniques , supported also by the large worldwide field experience especially in areas with high density of lightning.

Mr Hartono’s messages and articles are misleading and seems inspired by a deliberate will to harm. They are seriously detrimental to the ILPA, its members as well as many companies and could lead to legal follow up and actions.

Yours sincerely,

Arnaud Lefort

President

Please see the full letter with attachment with this link:

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