Originally Posted by
INeedTheFull90
A culture where saving face and looking all knowing is not conducive to a professional and accurate recovery mission nor subsequent investigation.
This is not a culture due to local tradition in Indonesia, this is completely standard political activity sloping shoulders and trying to avoid any blame settling on them by claiming failures on other people's part. You see the same political maneuvering for 'blame avoidance' in large public incidents anywhere in the world. The noisier the behavior of the politicians/ministers involved the more likely they believe that they have some blame to avoid. There is then the overwhelming feeling of politicians that they need to DO something. In UK and USA this leads to a flurry of knee jerk legislation after an incident and political point scoring. In this case some unfortunate uninvolved minions may have lost their jobs - so politicians can be seen 'doing something'.