Paris, september 24 th 2010

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.

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 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

Copy to:
H.E. Ambassador of Malaysia in France
H.E. Ambassador of Malaysia in Spain
H.E. Ambassador of France in Malaysia

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 E.S.E. LIGHTNING PROTECTION
MEMORANDUM

This issue must be considered taking into account two main aspects:

- The effectiveness of the ESE lightning protection

- The Safety measures in lightning protection standards

1. A WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION OF EFFECTIVENESS from real

lightning protection installations.

1.1 BUILDINGS PROTECTED

The protection against lightning of a wide range of buildings and open areas is achieved by
ESE in Europe and all over the world (annex 2) :
• Public and administrative buildings including the European Parliament in Strasbourg
• Industrial plants including high risk facilities in France and abroad
• High rise office and residential buildings
• Open areas : golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, stadiums, leisure parks
• Historical and Cultural buildings
• Religious buildings (churches, mosques)
• Telecommunication installations
• Defense and army buildings

1.2 USER COUNTRIES

ESE systems are used all over the world. They represent even the most important lightning
protection systems used in more than 50 countries (Annex 3)
• In Europe: France, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Greece, Great Britain, Belgium.
• In Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Emirates, Lebanon.
• In Australasia: India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Greater China, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Thailand, , Australia, South Korea, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia

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 • In North and South America: Mexico, Caribbean, Equator, Peru, Bolivia, Chile,
Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica.
• In Africa: all the countries of northern and western Africa.

In a majority of these countries, more than 50 % of the LPS installed are based on ESE
systems.

It should be noted than some of these countries belong to severe thunderstorms density areas
(Asia, Central America) where extreme lightning strikes may occur nearly every day during
the storm season. The ESE are then very often struck by lightning and any lack of efficiency
(as defined in Standards) would have been highlighted in a very short time.

1.3 STATISTICS

According to the available statistics the figures of ESE manufactured in Europe and installed
worldwide are the following:

- In 1986, first year of available statistics, the number of ESE installed was 4088.

- In 2009, the cumulated number of installed units is 550 000.

- These figures show that the experience of ESE is important and very long.

This represents a cumulated experience (number of units x number of years installed) of more
than 4.650.000 years for these terminals.

1.4 A UNIQUE SURVEY ON PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL SITES IN FRANCE

Since 1993 French legislation has required that industrial facilities classified as presenting a
risk to the environment include lightning protection.

Considering the accidents which have occurred over the past ten years, the French Ministry of
Ecology & Sustainable Development (MEDD, avenue de Ségur, 75000 Paris – France)
assessed in 2002 the effectiveness of the current legislation. GIMELEC1 & INERIS2 took
part to the project.

1
GIMELEC: Groupement des industries de l´equipement electrique, du contrôle-commande et des services
associés
2
INERIS: Institute national de l´Environnemet et des risques

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 One way of measuring the effectiveness of the measures imposed by the legislation is to
assess levels of satisfaction among the people in charge of industrial facilities at risk with
regard to lightning protection.

The survey company IPSOS, was commissioned to report on customer satisfaction. 483
sample surveys were carried out from a database of 1581 sites. All industries located across
France were questioned. To collect as many answers as possible, a telephone survey method
was chosen offering total anonymity to the interviewee.
The questionnaire focused on the following issues:

how often the facility was affected by lightning,

the type of protection equipment installed,

overall satisfaction with the equipment,

overall satisfaction with the site’s situation (protected or not) with regard to lightning,

extent of damage, if facility already impacted,

nature of damage, if facility already impacted,

downtime caused by damage,

cost of damage,

overall satisfaction following damage.

The following tables show the results of the survey:

What protection has been implemented on site?

Equipotentiality 47.2%
Single rod 40.7%
Surge protection devices 40.2%
ESE 36.2%
Strike counter 31%
Faraday cage 26.5%
Stretched wires 5%
Radioactive lightning conductor 4.7%
Other 9.2%

Type of protection

In red the lightning protection measures according to EN 62305.

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 Overall satisfaction according to protection type (Q5)

Stretched wires (Base:

19*)
47% 53%

ESELC (Base: 133) 45% 52% 1%4%

2%
Farady cage (Base: 99) 41% 55% 1%
1%

Single rod (Base: 147) 39% 51% 5% 5%

Paratonerre radioactif
(Base : 16*)
28% 55% 11% 11%

Totally satisfied Fairly satisfied Somewhat dissatisfied Totally dissatisfied No Op

(*) Important: low sample rate < 30, results not significant, indicative of slight trends only.
Avril-Juin 2002 5

Overall satisfaction according to protection type

E.S.E. A high level of satisfaction:

Their efficiency and ideal positionning in term of cost and maintenance allow E.S.E. systems
to get the highest satisfaction level: 97 % of totaly or fairly satisfied users.

As several hundreds of thousands sites all over the world, more than 36% of the SEVESO
industrial sites at risk in France are safely protected by Early Streamer Emission.

They have a field experience as good as the lightning protection solutions according to EN
62305

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 1.5 PATENTS

Lightning protection Systems (LPS) using Early Streamer Emission air terminals have been
used successfully for more than 25 years. The first European and international Patents for
ESE products have been published in 1985:
• Patent N° :Fr 8517813 dated 26/11/1985 European N°0 228 321 dated 19/11/1986
• Patent N° Fr 83 16 009 European N° O 139 575 dated 02/05/1985
Many other patents have been
published since 1986.

2. SAFETY LEVEL

An in depth study was made to compare requirements from EN 62305-3 and the existing
European national ESE standards (as NFC17-102). For each of the requirements in EN
62305-3 it has been checked in if the same requirement exists and if yes if the level of
requirement is identical, lower or higher.

It appears that in most of the cases the level of requirements in NFC 17-102 was at least
identical or even greater than in EN 62305-3 or non conflicting.

Obviously some items in EN 62305-3 where not addressed or at lower extent by NFC 17-102,
because NFC 17-102 is a much older standard. NFC 17-102 has been adapted since the
publication of EN 62305-3 to cover these few discrepancies. A second edition of NFC 17-102
including all these adaptations have bee published in January of 2009. A few remaining items
will be also adjusted soon.

None of these changes are related to main topics in EN 62305-3. They cover mainly
equipotential bonding between the lightning protection and the metallic parts of the structure.

This adaptation of the European ESE National Standards have been made according to
CENELEC rules and discussed in depth at CENELEC Technical Board. (See Annex 4)

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 3.CONCLUSION

These are facts and relevant statistics on long period of time and very large number of users
that undoubtedly show the ESE lightning protection effectiveness.

On the contrary, Mr Hartono papers are deliberately partial and his criticism is lacking a
scrupulous, objective and complete investigation. His conclusions are mainly based on photos
of damages due to lightning in buildings where an ESE is installed. What Mr Hartono do not
explain is :

-Mr Hartono never made a complete investigation of the lightning protection

installations, checking and documenting if the installation accomplished with the
relevant standard requirements.

- He never explained that those damages where negligible, statistically irrelevant and
inside of the current standard parameters for efficiency.

- He never explained but hid away that similar damages occur in the conventional
lightning protection system (to 62 305 standards series) he is lobbying.

To make a photo to a building with minor damages by lightning and advertise that this
represents the failure of a technology is a non sense and childish: shall we ban cars if there is
a incident of negligible consequences on a single model?

There are some cases of failures every year worldwide. According to the relevant standards ,
no system is providing a total protection to a structure, neither an ESE or a conventional
system composed of Franklin rods or mesh conductors. Scientists, researchers and
professional individuals analyze these failures to improve the systems design and standards,
rather than lobbying. And the facts exposed here above clearly show that the ESE technology
is as efficient and safe as the conventional system.

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 ANNEX 1

E.S.E. National Standards and technical regulations in Europe

France NF C 17-102

Portugal NP 4426

Spain UNE 21186

Spain Código Técnico de la Edificación (CTE, Su8)

Slovakia STN 34 1391

Romania I-20

Serbia JUS N84.810

Macedonia MKS N B4 810

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 ANNEX 2

A selection of several ESE references all over the world covering any kind of buildings and
open areas as:

Schools, universities, Cultures centres, Publics buildings, Military Premises, Police, Major
Houses, Hospitals, Health Centres, Churches, monasteries, religious centres, hotels,
companies, buildings, houses, communities, villas, retirement houses. Explosive storages,
dangerous goods, fireworks companies, factories, warehouse, airports, ports, train station, Oil,
petrol companies, Markets, stores, malls, parks, camping, stadium, golf ground, castles,
monuments etc…

• High rise office and residential buildings

T2 Tower La Defense-Paris –France
UNESCO Headquarters –Paris-France
Residence Towers - Praha - Czech Republic
Ciputra Complex - Jakarta – Indonesia Sheraton Hotel.- Malte
Merck Bratislava, Volksbank Bratislava (bank),- Slovak Republic
Transpetrol, Slovenská Poistovòa (insurance company)- Slovak Republic
SNP Petrom Ploiesti. Motel SNP Petrom Ploiesti- Romania
SC LEK PHARMATECH Tg.Mures - Livezeni nr.4- Romania
The Glass House condominium - Colorado – USA
Hyatt Denver Convention Center Hotel - Denver CO – USA
Jing Jiang hotel - Shanghai – China
Mingtian Building - Shanghai – China
SouthCity-Kolkata – India
Residential condominium - Muan Tong Thani –Thailand
LG Telecom Ku-Ro Dong Exchange Office- South Korea
Professor Total Research Center Building- South Korea
Zeltia SA Madrid -Spain
Pusat Bandar Puchong Condominium. Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia
Tropicana, Bungalow Houses. Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia
Hotel Sofitel Teranga. Dakar- Senegal.
DHL (International Courier) – Ecuador
Hotel Howard Johnson – Ecuador
Comisión Pma EUA (COPEG) – Panama
DAR AL EZZ tower - Bahrein
AVARE tower- Bahrein
Renaissance Hotel- Bahrein
Avare tower – Bahrein
Shopping Center Interspar (Frydek-Mistek)- Czech Republic
Hotel Bali- Benidorm- Spain

…and thousands of high buildings in Europe

• Industrial plants including high risk facilities

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 MISR petroleum – Egypte
ST Gobain Vetrotex- Chambery - France
LEO Pharma -Vernouillet - France
Plastic Omnium 3P -Langres - France
PSA Peugeot SVO-Poissy- France
SARP Industries-Limay- France
TOTAL - Feyzin- France
Alcan –Neuf Brisach- France
Laboatoire Andra- Bure- France
Dupont de Nemours- Cernay- France
Saft- Nersac- France
Sanofi Aventis- Neuville sur Saone- France
Michelin- Bassens- France
Gas station – Iran
Siemens -Prague- Czech Republic
Dafora Medias.Oil Station-Romania
Repsol Petroleo Bens Coruña- Spain
Cepsa Quimica Huelva - Spain
Johnson & Johnson SA Arganda del Rey Madrid -Spain
Unilever Hellas industry- Athens-Greece
Renault España Valladolid Palencia-Spain
Robert Bosch Cantabria –Spain
Arcelor Mittal Vizcaya –Spain
Antibioticos, S.A Madrid –Spain
GKN Vizcaya- Spain
Samsung Heavy Industry. Boramai Officetel.- South Korea
Shun Fung Industrial City- Hong Kong
Lamma Power Station – Dangerous Goods Store- Hong Kong
Havana Club – Cuba
Shell Malaysia – Malaysia
Air Liquide –Cilegon-Indonesia
Air Liquide –Douai-France
BINH MINH Plastic Co- Vietnam
Baticompos- Algeria
Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc (brewing plant).- Mexico
Condominio La Punta Cancún, Quintana Roo- Mexico
ESSEL, S.A. water treatment plant.-Chile
General Electric Logistic Plant Ribaroja-Spain
Toyota G.B.-Rotherham-U.K.
Pluspetrol Perú Corporation S.A- Peru
Cia. Minera Buenaventura S.A.C- Peru
Comcel – Guatemala
Coca Cola España Plant - Spain

... and thousands of industrial plants in Europe

• Public and administrative buildings

Assemblée nationale - Paris – France
Tunis International Exhibition Center - Tunisia
Paris International Exhibition center-France
Palacio National-Mexico
Moncloa – Madrid (President’s Residence)- Spain
La Zarzuela – Madrid (Royal family‘s Residence) –Spain
Administrative & Logistic Center OTAS- Bulgary
Town administracion building.Konstitucijos pr. 1 . Vilnius-Lithuania
National Nederlanden Madrid- Spain
Radio Television Española SA Somosaguas Madrid- Spain
Patima Hospital.Changwon City Patima Hospital- South Korea
PTT Telecomm Co. ORANGE TELECOM- India

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 Kementrian Pertahanan Malaysia. Gemas Camp (military camp)- Malaysia
BMW sub assembly plant- Malaysia
Complejo Industrial Sigma, S.A. de C.V. Parque industrial Toluca 2000 – Mexico
Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas (Military staff of Armed forces) – Ecuador
Ministry of Works and housing at UM-AL HASSAM- Bahrein
Meiss El-Jabal Hospital – Lebanon
Tele 5 Madrid - Spain
National Assembly - Abuja – Nigeria

…and thousands of other buildings in Europe

• Open areas : golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, stadiums, leisure parks
Stade de France –Paris -France
football stadium- Nicosie – Cyprus
World Cup 2002Stadium, Yokoyama, Japan
World cup 2002stadium - Daejon – Korea
Golf Course - Jakarta – Indonesia
Rainbow hill golf course-Indonesia
Eurodisney Park- Paris-France
Area Golf course – South Korea
Doowon University Sports Stadium- South Korea
Zoo de Madrid- Spain
Cabot Circus – Bristol – England

...
• Historical and Cultural buildings
Angkor Vat temple - Siam Reap – Cambodia
Red Fort - Delhi – India
Acropolis - Athens –Greece
Aphrodite’s temple- Athens –Greece
Louvre Museum-Paris-France
Castle of Straznice-Czech Republic
National Environmental Institute- South Korea
Dr. Sun-Yet sen Memorial Hall. Zon Tai Co., Ltd- Thailand.
Palacio del Oriente Madrid – Spain
Palacio Aranjuez- Spain
Kirkstall Abbey – Yorkshire – England
Stainborough Castle – Yorkshire – England
Wenthworth Castle – Yorkshire – England
Unlocked Oxford Castle – Oxford – England
Vasco de Gama Bridge-Portugal

... and thousands of other buildings in Europe

• Religious buildings (churches, mosques)

Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral - France
Santa Cruz do Sul Catedral – Brasil
Madeleine church- Paris-France
Iglesia Mormona church – Chile
Mosque Medina Fez –Morocco
Kwun Yum Temple – Chaiwan – HONG KONG
Valencia cathedral – Spain
Notre Dame cathedral- Beyrut- Lebenon
Santec church- France
Ghyvelde church- France

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 Saint Aubin sur Gaillon church- France
Cesny aux Vignes church- France
Sille le Guillaume church- France
Saint Sylvestre Capelle church- France
Vauville church- France
Plassac church- France

... and thousands of churches in Europe

• And the European Parliament building in Strasbourg....

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 ANNEX 3

E.S.E. use worldwide

ESE widely used . .. ....

Conventional and ESE used Conventional widely used

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 Annexe 4

DECISIONS TAKEN during BT 136 of CENELEC

04/2010 in Brussels
Related to Lightning protection

A – Official decisions taken during BT 136

D136/011 BT noted the information provided by CLC/TC 81X concerning the relation
between the EN 62305 series (Protection against lightning) and NF C 17-102
(Protection of structures and open areas against lightning using early streamer
emission air terminals).

D136/012 BT decided by majority not to establish a BTTF to deal with the ESE system at
European level.

D136/013 BT asked those national committees that have a national standard endorsing the
ESE system, to ensure that this national standard will no longer contain any
reference to the installation provisions of the EN 62305 series and sequently to
offer the corresponding national standard to IEC for possible endorsement at
international level.

D136/014 BT asked CLC/TC 81X to examine the possibility to establish a pure

performance standard, independent from any technology and enabling the
development of existing and future technologies on lightning protection systems
and report back to BT.

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