Failure to occupy the position of president director of Indonesia's flag-carrier airliner Garuda Indonesia should not have discouraged Samudra Sukardi, 47. Once he told this magazine he would wholeheartedly accept his non-election, though he added his own condition of "as long as all the procedures have been properly followed."

On Monday last week, however, after State Minister for State-Owned Enterprises Laksamana Sukardi, his ow