HKAforever: Don't worry, I fully understand your sentiments. Yes, there are some very good, conscientious pilots in Indonesia and I'm lucky to consider some of them among my friends. But I'm sure you'll agree that almost to a man they're often badly let down by their employers.
There was a time - not so long ago - that you rarely saw an Indonesian pilot working outside of Indonesia. Now that is not the case and many of them are seeking greener - and safer - pastures.
I think we need to separate scheduled airlines, by far the worst offenders - and other non-scheduled carriers. It is the latter catagory I had in mind with my earlier post.
Yes, it's very sad that clients are effectively doing the job of the DGAC. I've also seen the DGAC audit a non-scheduled carrier and it was a real eye-opener, done almost entirely from the QCM office and in a remarkably short space of time.