72 Comments on “Garuda Crash”
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Dimp Says:
March 12th, 2007 at 9:06 amHi Cuk,
I won’t be angry to anyone without apparent reason. In this accident, I didn’t think Hatta to be accountable and responsible for the Garuda crash because the root cause of the crash was not related to safety issue of the plane itself or the airport but it was caused by negligent act of the pilot who forced the plane to make hard landing while the speed of the aircraft was still too fast to make smooth landing.
The fact still that the airport emergency team was not capable to rescue the victims. This is still obviously the responsibility of the Minister of Transport. Regardless of what is the cause of the accident he as the person responsible of the transport industry in Indonesia still need to be accountable for. This is not a blame game, rather a show of integrity (one that most Indonesians lack of).
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Cukurungan Says:
March 12th, 2007 at 1:31 pmDimp,
Good points but you’re too delusioner while the clear apparent evidence of an in-human transport system in daily KRL jabodetabek where almost millions people have to accept the condition becomes “pepes orang” but never get real attention to solve it. Therefore, it is almost impossible if you think our beloved minister will move to minor concern such as emergency matters in Airport.
If you think by replacing one or two minister it will make any change you must be in deep sleep. Once you get up don’t forget “sikat gigi” -
Wiranto Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 11:02 pmIt is the system.
People change but if the system and way of doing things plus the attitude of doing things remain the same, I won’t be surprised we are going to have more and more tragic disasters in the years to come.
The ‘never mind it’s ok’ mentality should and must be avoided.
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March 16th, 2007 at 6:59 amHi Cuk,
Are you still joking or are you seriously saying that we should just accept that the ministers that we have in office are a bunch of morons?
When something need to be fixed then it should be fixed, we shouldn’t just accept the condition. This is what Indonesians always do, they always say “this is fate”, “what can we do”.
Changing ministers when they obvioulsy don’t have the ability to make things right is one step to make Indonesia advance to the next step.
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March 16th, 2007 at 2:55 pmDimp,
In principal I agreed with you but changing or replacing 1 or 2 ministers, it is like putting salt in the sea while the outbreak of the corruption were already anchored deeply in the system.
When I chose Sby I thought he dared to dismantle the whole system but it seemed I was completely wrong and the current anti corruption campaign didn’t touch the real problems, just only better than nothing while the systemic and pandemic problems in the taxes, bea cukai, police, jugde and regulatory bodies department are almost un-touchable.
thanks
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March 16th, 2007 at 3:57 pmHi Cuk,
I think everyone was hoping a bit too much for SBY, unfortunately to gain power he made deals with the devils. This has make him impotent runnint the office, sure there has been improvements but they weren’t as much as were promised.
When his second in command is so corrupted and he is too afraid to even mentioned his name. His cabinet is just a mixture of people he made deals with in the beginning. But nevertheless Hatta Rajasa has shown his incompetence too many times, along with him I think SBY should get rid of Aburisal and Yusril to start with. At least when these people are being stripped off their cushy position the other ministers will probably start doing their jobs, the jobs that Indonesian people pay them to do.
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Andrew Says:
March 19th, 2007 at 4:59 amWhat’s going on with the accident investigation, why is the sudden dead quiet? I hope this is not another typical Indonesian style-investigation, where they slowly let the matter come to rest…
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March 19th, 2007 at 5:29 amHi Andrew,
I think the latest news is that the black box is being sent to the manufacturer as there is lack of cockpit recording from the initial investigation in Australia. Also there has been a conclusion that the cause of the crash is the excess speed during the landing procedure. There is also talks about the wing-flap that failed to operate during landing, this is another factor causing the excess speed.
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March 19th, 2007 at 6:03 amThanks, Dimp – I admit that I always question the competency and honesty of our government.
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1ndra Says:
March 19th, 2007 at 6:18 amDidn’t you read news? Maybe the Garuda Crash isn’t on tv anymore but still written in newspaper.
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March 19th, 2007 at 6:27 amNo I don’t, Kompas doesn’t deliver all over the globe, and being on the other side of the world, the news is long gone from the main page of kompas.com before I get to it.
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March 19th, 2007 at 9:05 amHi Andrew,
I don’t think this Garuda incident will ever be surfaced to the headlines again. As we all know Indonesians have a very short term memory.
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