AT the end of October, a group of Singaporean officials turned up at the Hotel Grand Mercure in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, looking for Suprasetyo, director-general of Air Transport at the Transportation Ministry, who was about to end his internal working meeting.

Among the Singaporeans were Kevin Shum, director-general of Air Transport. He was accompanied by a number of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) officials and the Singaporean