Assume there is a 'team' working at both ends of the mission working together and covering each other to operate the aircraft overweight.
This system has been operating for decades in this part of the world (especially in remote areas) and is thoroughly entrenched in the culture of ops staff of most operators here.
We are looking for ways to break that culture.
One of the biggest obstacles to safe operation in Indonesia is finding honest staff.
Spot checks will be done as part of internal monitoring by a separate group (assume trustworthy) unannounced but they can't be done on every load .
As an example if you found the fuel burn was X per kg prior to a visit by the independent team then dropped for the week the monitoring team was there and then went back to X when they left that would be a good indicator something was going on.
So when establishing the operation and staying on site keeping an eye on fuel burn vs cargo loads for a few months we would have a good basis for what is the range of normal fuel burn for the mission then if it started being significantly above that 'norm' we could go back and have a look at what's going on.
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