ILPA's answer to Mr. Hartono's email to the Malaysian government authorities

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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:
http://www.intlpa.org/pdf/reply%20to%20Hartono%20201009.pdf