Hasanuddin often has a large cloud over one end (the eastern, mountain end), where it is chucking it down and there are all sorts of wind changes and the other (western, seaward) end is in brilliant sunshine
I have a vague memory that some of our guys were delayed by this event for a day or two but it's a longgg time ago
and in the early 1980's Pres. Suharto and friends kept the Indonesian media on a very short leash