INDONESIA’S president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is not known as a conviction politician. Rather, his leadership has been characterised by compromise. On the environment, though, Mr Yudhoyono has been uncommonly courageous. In 2009, two years after world leaders met on the island of Bali to agree on a “road map” to slow climate change, Mr Yudhoyono pledged Indonesia to cutting its ...

Pilot error may have contributed to the dramatic crash last month of a new Lion Air jet off the Indonesian resort island of Bali in which all aboard miraculously survived, a preliminary government report has determined.

Report on Lion Air plane crash off Bali urges better training of pilots

Report on Lion Air plane crash off Bali urges better training of pilots    

(Reuters) - Indonesia's largest low-cost carrier Lion Air has been criticized after a preliminary investigation into last month's Boeing 737 crash off Bali found a young, second-in-command pilot was at the controls at a "critical time".