STRANGELY, the government seems to be leaving Garuda Indonesia in the clouds. For more than a year, the problem of replacing the directors of the government-owned company has remained unresolved. But Garuda urgently needs directors with full authority to face many serious problems.

There have been many problems since 2001, from the terror of September 11, the bombings in Bali and the SARS outbreak in Asia to the sudden rise of oil pr