Employees of Indonesian Airlines have not received their salaries in the past five months, forcing some to sell fried rice in order to survive.

An aroma of fried onions would waft in the air when Eko (not his real name) entered the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Surabaya, every morning. This graduate of the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), however, is no cook. He is an Indonesian Airlines employee of the Surabaya branch office, l