Budi Karya Sumadi, Transportation Minister:

Last Monday at around 7am, Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi, 61, was still at home talking to acting Air Transport Director-General Pramintohadi Sukarno on the phone. In the middle of the conversation, with very sketchy information available, Pramintohadi informed him that a plane had gone missing. “I prayed that it wouldn’t end tragically,” Budi recalled during a spe