RE: "pilots did not get weather report"
That article strikes me as pure hyperbole. Does this newspaper expect that Captain Iriyanto was supposed to sit on the runway for an hour and a half waiting for a weather report?
This Captain was local to the area, he knew what the weather was like (all he had to do was look up as he walked to the plane.) There were a half a dozen other planes out in that weather, he could have gotten pireps anytime he was curious. Weather reports can only give generalized reports for an area, they can't pinpoint individual cells anyway. That's what the planes' weather radar is for.
Much ado about nothing.