Slasher,
Thanks for the interesting post. One would hope that the airing of such info would only help to improve air safety in the region. Where I come from, air accident and incident reports are very accessible. Many pilots read these religously, not so that they can undermine the operator or the pilot(s) involved, but to learn from the experience of others.
Lee, please don't see this as being critical of Indon pilots. I know some of them too, and yes, some are more than capable, given the type of equipment and ATC environment they have to work with.
One of the senarios mentioned by Slasher resembled an actual CFIT accident in Sumatra in 1997 where an A300 was radar vectored into terrain. ATC was probably to be blamed for this one, but one would have hoped that as a result of this, SOPs would be reviewed for checking of LSALT under radar control. It appears though, that nothing has been learnt from this accident.
[This message has been edited by smiling monkey (edited 02 July 2001).]