IT seemed excessive when judge Tahsin at the South Jakarta District Court announced that Tommy Suharto had won his case over Garuda last week. The judge ordered the national airline to pay Rp12.51 billion and to apologize publicly.

This was too high a price to pay compared to the ‘wrongdoing’ committed by Garuda Indonesia in the December 2009 edition of its inflight magazine. In an article called ‘A New Destination to Enjoy in Bali’, a s