PK-KAR: Excellent post, sums up Indonesian aviation regulatory oversight nicely. To substantiate my point that the DGAC is well behind the safety curve, consider this: I know of a very well regarded and professionally run charter operator that applied to be upgraded from Catagory II to Catagory I. They should have passed with flying colours except that the DGAC paper-work (essentially a questionaire) had many questions that were applicable to multi-engine aircraft operations and this particular operator only flies single-engine machines. As a result, the operator could never have achieved a pass grade and is now condemned to be a 'Cat II company' when by all standards it should be Cat I. What to do..........