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The real Singapore, clean streets, shiny towers of commercial enterprise, wealth but what really ...lies beneath the glossy facade... The basis, and justifications, of arguments that some may put as to why Australia, or any civilised country, should not do business with governments, and corporations, that inhabit this state, abuser of human rights and democracy? "Democracy and freedom are ideal in a modern country like Singapore. But is Singapore ready for it? Majority of Singaporean have no idea that democracy comes with responsibilities. Singaporean cannot even keep their neighbourhood clean, flush the toilet after using it, treat each other with courtesy and you think they are ready to participate in the running of the country?" (Extract from a letter to SFD April 6, 2000). Singapore has done atrociously in an international ranking - coming in 140th out of 167 countries in a press-freedom index constructed by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, behind such bastions of freedom as Russia (138th), Sudan (133rd) and Afghanistan (125th). Singapore allies, and companies, might realise that they lack an ethical conscience in dealing with a regime that is hypocritical in the extreme. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the APEC summit in Busan, Korea, told the world's press,"The overall tenor of society must be geared towards openness. The social milieu must encourage risk-taking and embrace diversity...In some cases, it may mean radical changes to the status quo. Such tensions will have to be managed carefully." So how does Singapore manage things carefully? In an environment where there is an ..absence of trust... Integrity, service, excellence: Singapore Media Development Authority ..look at the logo on the top right hand corner of the site... The seeds of democracy, and aspiration of good and thinking citizens, have not been rendered dead by the ignorance of the ruling government, and its corrupt politicians and craven media ...democracy struggles.. Singapore is not about the soft side of humanity and democracy, it is a hard nosed and ... very slick business economy ... and like its trading partners and those corporations that do business with it it is not concerned about human rights, good governance and the morality of its enterprise Barbarian society, and corporate and political interests, in Singapore will not be influenced by ... public opinion ... Will you visit Singapore? ..truth behind the retail mecca. ... Impacts when Singapore executes Australian |
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Education and research content framed by political and corporate jingoism A higher education obviously does not imbue the recipient with any greater widsom than a person who has barely passed secondary school. This is evidenced by what comes out of the mouths of Australia's education ministers. They are reinforcing an Australian stereotype that appears to place a university degree on the same level of value as a vocational certificate. The shortage of trades people in the Australian economy in 2006 raises wages for that sector well above base line higher education. Thus we have a new sector of high cash aspirants who do not necessarily possess the deeper skills base for a technologically and socially advanced nation. One indicator of how well we apply our intelligence is the level of national interest in, and participation in, our democracy and government. Most people simply exercise a vote every few years and then walk away never participating in the interim. The closest they may come is an interlude with their local government or a telephone call to a talk show host or perhaps a letter to a politician. A cavalcade of state, territory and federal ministers who have put in their tuppence worth in and on the way degraded Australia's education reducing it to a few generic concepts and terms, "skills", "training", "employability" and"utility", which they can trot out in parliamentary speeches, in policy and sing in the shower. They are joined in this ideological claptrap by many, if not all, Australian employers. The employers have collectively, with parliamentarians of the liberal, labor and national parties, refused to water, and nurture, education for education's sake, preferring to intrude economic utility measurement demanding that education be framed for "utility in economic production". Institutions must be commercial factories. The greater number of employers believe that university, or even technical, education is a personal decision. The registration of internal training courses, within business, and the certification of basic vocational courses within training businesses, under the national training initiative, concretes a lower standard of learning across Australia. The quality is inconsistent. The depth in most cases is shallow. Our education system is tied to a political and economic agenda. Learning for learning's sake is something that the governments will not fund. Minister, Brendan Nelson, during his term wanted to tie the ever decreasing funding of schools, vocational and higher education to compliance on the government's political agenda of the day. This has been carried forward, in a different style, by current federal Minister for Education, MsJulie Bishop. The determination of quality is through a distorted reporting and measurement, literacy and numeracy system. These are as unalluminating as the education policies and initiatives of state and territory governments. They are not content to allow a good system to function. It must be reformed and shaped to comply with the ongoing need of reform and change. Labor, liberal and national politicians have been brainwashed, programmed and shaped to the status quo, and singular objective - economic utility. The education is heavily bureaucratic and inefficient. The professional people (teachers and lecturers) working in the sector then have to waste resources, time and money, abandon their students and things of value to pander to the whims of people (politicians, bureaucrats, business and interest groups inclduing unions) who themselves offer little value but happen to be in the chair of authority and influence. The passing calvacade of education ministers, come to work and get a brain spasm which they then pass to the spin doctors and advisers who find themselves with a new challenge, something to occupy their time. They then shape and promulgate the spasm as a bright, and innovative, idea regardless of the effect, the harm and the consequences. These are really quite a worthless lot of theorists and mad inventors. Pose a question to a Minister of a government in Australia and you will not get a straight forward answer. They are dissemblers. They demand that every one else be truthful and open to them. They are offended if they are told that their ideas are damaging to learning. Present them with the facts and they will dispute them where they do not fit with the practiced mantra and goals. The professionals in education have to tolerate, and dance, to jingoism. Politicains, and employers, have focussed on the commercial application of education, to the detriment of the nation's developemnt and in this regard they have corroded the nation. Australia is in the grip of mediocrity and these people, employers and politicains, who bark about "skills and competencies" and who reuire that schoalstic endeavour have a commercial saleability are the idiots who will go down in histiory as junk yard dogs baying at an ideological moon. They are supported in their endeavours by carefully chosen sycophants who will engage the resources of the state to the political task. The people with the money, and the power, have all had the benefit of a free, and diverse education, and now as the nation finds itself wealthy beyond its imagination we cannot, according to government, business and economists, afford anything other than bargain basement services. Research, intellectualism and enquiry must have a commercial end objective or the politicians, such as Brendan Nelson, will cut off the funds. Thus industry, and commerce, through the mouths of programmed zealots, or perhaps puppets, has the final say on what will be taught and enquired into, in our institutions. Into this reductionist framework have come the seeds of mediocrity, a plethora of Registered Training Organisations and private education providers. Low grade purveyors, and disseminators, of the commercial utility imperative taking the opportunity to feed on the fringes. It is an accolade to Universities, and Australian Training and Further Education Institutes, that they have survived under the mediocre vision, management and political onslaught of those whose focus is on surplus, least cost and short term economic objectives and competition theory. It is ironic that those wielding the power demonstrate low, if not non existent, utility to the nation in return for their generous stipends. Australia is subjected to a regime of "dumbing down" for "employability" and "competition" sake. Our institutions however must compete on a shoe string. The defendesr of quality and diverse education stand alone as day after day they are assulted and bludgeoned into submission. The nation is fed, and forced to swallow, the rhetoric of ideological dogma. People may be worried about the education system (denoted by the shift to private education facilities, but they are largely disengaged and apathetic. 60% of the Australian population are not educated themselves and are unable to argue against the sophisticated, and well resourced, machines and people versed in communication, presentation and the art of using words, statistics, lies, misrepresentations and manipulations, to make shallow concepts appear deep, high calibre proposals. The younger generation have been programmed to want it "now". They seek a fast track education system. Governments are going to concatinate a four year programme down to two years to make it look as if they are addressing the skills shortage. The Australian people are accepting ridiculously high education costs with many university degrees now costing above $A100,000. 11% of Australian employers have no regard for education and 15% think it is midly worthwhile. If taining is given it is "competency" focused. Very few enterprises will fund high cost tertiary study. Governments, and employers, have surreptiously, or openly, influenced what Tafe and Universties are to teach. Nelson derides the short courses and the quirky refusing to realise that it is the policies of his ilk that have driven intitutions to be inventive and ridiculous. Of course he, and others, will never admit this. Such claims and allegations are nebulous and unprobavle. Yet it is a fact that a lot of what people buy is on a whim and on personal interest and pleasure. Institutions have, like the two dollar shops, moved into a feckless space. We have no scientisst, insufficient doctors, few philosophers, historians, chemists, engineers, trades people and technical specialists but we have lots of business and computer types, hairdressers, recruitment and human resources specialists and managers with MBA's. We have business oriented, and utility, courses coming out of our ears. Why do we not have a well educated, and education loving nation that prides itself on its diverse enquiry? Because the decision makers have not endeavoured to sow such seeds. It was not until 1998 that the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA, now abolished), Ministerial Council, comprising all federal, state and territory government ministers, decided to take a social marketing approach to the challenge of building a life long learning (LLL) culture in Australia and ANTA undertook, and published in 1999, a literature review as a part of its National Marketing Strategy for Skills and Life Long Learning. In that publication ANTA cited other countries' aims of instilling the desire to acquire skills that are valued to engage in life long learning, indicating this should be an aspiration for the Australian community. They cited other countries' experiences and strategies because Australia has no experience of its own regarding a public policy to promote LLL. ANTA was advocating a customer centred approach where initially created projects draw together what Australia may know about life long learning, which inter alia, according to them is that "learning is the central dimension in the pu rsuit of economic resilience, individual confidence and social cohesion". Lewis Perelman, (School's Out) which says that, "learning has become the strategically central enterprise for national economic strength". This comment relates to nations other than Australia since this nation possesses no training culture of substance and has no national strategy to develop and harness talent. I am not sure what it is about LLL that daunts Australian policy designers and it is incomprehensible that ANTA had not addressed the fundamental and vital concept of national life long learning until 1999 and then only by a literature review. This may have occurred due to the absence of a practicing teacher or professional educator on the ANTA Board which is Australia's premier advisory body on training to the national government, federal liaison entity to state authorities, to industry and the industry training boards. The extracts below is apologetic, offering excuses for the lack of initiative by Australia's governments, past and present: "It is difficult categorically and confidently to prescribe the elements of a life long learning policy framework or, more practically, what exactly it is governments at all levels should be doing", (ANTA report 1998, p. 21). "The problem is these attributes are in various stages of being defined and tested… some aspects of the role and process of government are becoming clearer and ... requires a new policy approach", (p. 23) and in a footnote they state, "There is a lack of commitment to training and learning in many lean and downsizing corporations", (p. 32). The attributes referred above, which were in various stages of definition and testing, at the time were:
The former Australian National Training Authority, merged into the federal Department of Education Sceince and Training, proposed a marketing and public relations campaign to commence the task of engendering a desire for broader participation in education. Such glaring omissions in the development and application of sophisticated and integrated public policy have helped shape attitudes to education and training in the community and assists those argue that engaging in Vocational Education and Training (VET), in skills, does not, on balance enhance the likelihood of getting a job. Learning for learning's sake, or rather training for training's sake, is not supported or condoned by the Coalition government and there is a trend towards the "erosion of values distinctive to education by the application of economic, financial and organisational imperatives" (Taylor, W., 1992), together with an ever increasing predominance of managerialism within the public service (Pollitt, 1990) dictating the profession of education and the content and depth of its curricula. In the week of June 15, 2005, the Australian government abolished the Australian National Training Authority. Compounding the problem is research that suggests that people do not complete training due to the poor quality of delivery, content and capability of providers and this is a point made by the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education References Committee in its report into the quality of VET in Australia (Aspiring to Excellence, 2000, R.19, p. xxxiv) however a survey by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training, tendered to the Senate, referred in the report (p.51), claimed that only twenty one (21) percent of respondents attributed non-completion to poor training delivery with other factors attributed such as not being suited to the work, lack of employer support, poor quality information to prospective students and employers on courses, misuse of government monies paid as incentive to employers, personality conflicts and poor attitude. Still twenty one percent is viewed as quite a high number of dissatisfied people and bad experiences can be strong shapers of attitudes. "Australia's approach to designing curriculum is inherently flawed and represents an unsatisfactory political and intellectual compromise", (Wilson B, 2002, in Donnelly, K; " Why our schools are failing", 2004). In 2005 it is highly probable that 30% of year 3 students and a higher figure for year 5, are illiterate. NSW Premier Bob Carr praises the results of students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (2002) whilst ignoring that his Department of Education directive that the students not be marked on spelling, grammar or punctuation. If they had been many would have failed (op cit, p.9). Why are there so many remedial teaching courses in Australia and why are parents taking their children out of state government schools and enduring costly private schools? Is there a correlation between Australia and the US experience? The following excerpt is taken from Charles' book, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why America's Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add "More alarming is the US performance against the students of other industrialised countries. By virtually every measure of achievement, American students lag far behind their counterparts in both Asia and Europe, and if the Americanisation of Australia is any example, there is a growing relevance of US studies, and experience, to Australia". Article content and sources Friday, 22 July 2005 NATIONAL REPORT - VICTORIAN STUDENTS LAG BEHIND IN READING Shadow Minister for Education in the Parlaiemnt of Victoria, Australia - Victor Perton The latest national literacy benchmark results, released today, show Victorian students have lower rates of literacy than their Queensland, ACT, New South Wales, Western Australian and Tasmanian counterparts. These sub-standard results show that Bracks Government policies have 'dumbed down' our English curriculum and hindered academic talent and achievement in Victorian students. For Year 3 students, the Victorian reading results were ahead of only South Australia and the Northern Territory and, at the time of testing, Victorian students were an average three to six months older. For Year 5 students, the Victorian reading results were well behind that of New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania and the ACT. The Bracks (Labor) Government has scored poorly on this report card. Reading is the foundation for every other subject. These results follow the second cycle of the Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA), which showed that while Australia as a nation is a leader, Victoria is well down on other Australian states in the literacy rankings.The PISA study revealed 13 per cent of Victorian year nine students recorded reading literacy proficiency levels in the lowest levels of one and below. Just 11 per cent of Victorian students were performing at the highest rates of reading literacy proficiency, compared to 22 per cent of students in the ACT and 20 per cent of students in Western Australia. Labor is short-changing our kids who need decent levels of literacy and numeracy to succeed in life. As the Brotherhood of St Lawrence states on its website: "Research shows that people who carry lower levels of literacy and numeracy into adulthood are more likely to be unemployed than people with higher levels." Today's results come as no surprise given that Labor's Education Minister Lynne Kosky has withdrawn resources from high performing state schools, fought against clearer reporting requirements and is opposed to gifted learning programs and selective schools. Our kids deserve better. There is debate about bias in Australia's curriculums and the effects of outcome based approaches and the movement to competency rather than educational standards based syllabus content. There is debate about post moderm theory particularly in relation reading as the syllabus focuses on imbuing children, and youth, with the skill to interpret what they read, critically. The "said" and the "not said", the mising voices and how literature and media, books and articles are framed to deliver particular viewpoints and ideologies. What of the eimple love of reading for adventure, thrill, and entertainment, rather than critical analysis? The teaching of rigourous subjects such as mathematics, and science, using memory and repetition as well as directed teacher learning seems to have taken a back seat to student choice learning. The changes from syllabus to outcome based curricula are driven by bean counters, and progressive theorists, who would argue that children, adolescents and adults should create their own learning experiences by some form of discovery process. Outcomes based approaches enable bean counters to calculate cost and it greatly politicians in manuipulating the data to create misleading, and even false, outcomes that make their policies look good. State and territory education departments are the bastions of detached mediocrity stifling innovation. They are some would claim, worthless cost overheads, imposts and impediments, in an under national funded system that has no standards or coherence. Teachers' and principals' unions in Australia resist the British approach to funding on academic performance. Funding in Britain is directly proportional to performance and in Britian, as in many educationally developed nations including Korea, teachers teach hard content syllabus. Add to this the lack of discipline, growing abuse and voilence, by students on teachers, in Australia, which is studiously ignored by Premiers, Ministers and departments and there is an endemic driving teachers out of the profession. If students want to be abusive and violent then stick them in reform schools by the droves, bill the parents for their keep and education, teach them there, and see how they like that. Given the absenteeism statistics, stupidity, ignorance and illiteracy of many students, how can the federal Minister for Education, Dr. Brendan Nelson suggest, with any foundation, that they should measure their teachers' performance? He has no foundation but that does not stop him from demonstrating naivety and cant along with his satte and territory counterparts The Australian government is as hair brained in its approach to education, at every level, as are the states and territories. Competency education, for skills and thus employability, does not equip citizens now and of the future for dealing with the complex issues of society and economy. It creates robots who cannt think and transfer learning and experience and who cannot articulate and distill complex information. It also creates a society focused on work and not on the broader human condition. Competition in a global world requires more than just skills, but do you see any Australian politician of any party, actually demonstrating that they are aware of this? The Australian labor party simply babbles on about skills like a generic can of home brand beans, and the liberal and national parties simply make it available to everyone at the lowest possible price. The debate about dumbing down is pervasive. It covers the privatisation of education, the outsourcing and creation of lower level award issuing institutions and a focus on work competency versus deeper education is worldwide, not only in education but also in public service reforms, and people argue it is dangerous. Raffique Shah on education University of Canberra Australia, on public service The failure to harness and develop Australia's human talent Orwellian education by William Jasper The dumbing down of Korean education by Robert Fouser Dumb and dumber by Phillip Ford - competency education for work School to work by Robin Akers Australian National Training Authority focus on VET Separating academic from skills standards in education will lower education quality and outcomes Free trade agreements (GATS) impact education and public service dumbing it to a common denominator The focus on work subverts education Values in Education - South Africa Numbing and dumbing by Linda Schrock Taylor School to work, Texas Education Consumers Association Brian Cusack, Thinking deeply in New Zealand Behaviour modification for work by Alana Caruba John Leo on dumbing down teachers Anne Schult on dumbing down teachers The dumbing down of America's colleges by Phyllis Schafly The dumbing down of some Australian universities Andrew Norton on dumbing down Australia's universities The quality of Australia's traineeship and apprenticeship systems - NCVER Australia: Get a quickie course over a few days, earn more than a qualified three or four year trained teacher or start your own Registered Training Organisation. 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The Australian government has recognised China as a Market Economy.
This is quite remarkable for a government that bases its credentials and credibility on a deep understanding of economic principles and management. Human rights arguments aside the Australian government is rewriting the book on market theory and in doing so is looking somewhat remote and somewhat ignorant of a true understanding, from the rest of the developed world, true market economies, making a grave error of judgement as to the capacity of China, its government, systems, regulatory frameworks and entrepreneurs. A billion consumers does not make a market economy. "Definitions of a Market Economy - Which One or More Fits China? "A market economy is a term used to describe an economy where economic decisions, such as pricing of goods and services, are made in a decentralised manner by the economy's participants and manifested by trade. In the case of China it is trade subsidised by an artificial foreign excahnge, government price manpiulation and dumping on foreign markets. It is a trade facilitated by bottom line corporatons who accept cheap Chinese imports destroying their local producers on the way. This can be seen as a "bottom-up" approach to organising an economy (self-organization). It is meant to contrast to a planned economy, where economic decisions are made by a central agency, which can be equated to a "top-down" approach. " Source and Definition Explanation A country in which most economic decisions are left up to individual consumers and firms interacting through markets. Contrasts with central planning and non-market economy. Source and Definition Explanation "This is an economic system that permits an open exchange of goods and services between producers and consumers" Source and Definition Explanation "An economy in which the setting of prices and allocating of resources are determined largely by the forces of supply and demand". Source and Definition Explanation "Economic theory which is like the Yeti, the abominable snowman, in that it is always claimed to exist while nobody can find it. What is often believed to be market economy is nothing but a diluted and fragmented version perverted by capitalism, subsidies, politics and trade rules and applied only in trade involving minor sums. " Source and Commentary "An economic system where resources are allocated and production of goods determined by market forces rather than by government decree. " Source and Expanded Definition "A system of decentralised economic decision making in which consumers, producers, workers, savers and investors interact in markets through the forces of demand and supply to set prices in order to answer the basic economic questions of what, how and for whom. " Source and Expanded Topic "The national economy of a country that relies on market forces to determine levels of production, consumption, investment, and savings without government intervention. " Source and Expanded Topic "The allocation of resources is determined by the invisible hand of the price system. " Source and Expanded Topic "An economic system in which decisions are made largely by the interactions of buyers and sellers. " Source and Expanded Topic "An economy based on the private ownership of business and allows market factors such as supply and demand to determine business strategy " Source and Expanded Topic "Countries must meet six criteria under the United States Tariff Act of 1930 to be designated as market economies, Evans stated. Two of these involve labor standards and currency policies. " Source and Expanded Topic "The European Union refused China full market economy status because of what it said was too much state interference, the weak rule of law and poor corporate governance. " Source and Expanded Topic A counter view - China is a market economy " Arguments in Support Go To The Mosaic Portal's World of Market Economies |
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"A hard-hitting investigation into the global power of the world's most profitable business - the pharmaceutical industry" Source of Quote, Video Programme and Article Nigerians sue Pfizer over test deaths "During a meningitis epidemic in 1996, Pfizer treated 100 Nigerian children with the antibiotic Trovan as part of its effort to determine whether the drug, which had never been tested in children, would be an effective treatment for the disease. Pfizer treated 100 other children with ceftriaxone, the gold standard for meningitis treatment, but, the suit says, at a lower-than- recommended dose. Eleven children in the trial died, and others suffered brain damage, were partly paralyzed or became deaf." Source of Quote and Article "A group of Nigerian families has sued the drugs giant Pfizer following the deaths of 11 children and injury to others who are said to have taken part in tests of a drug to treat meningitis." "The suit alleges that the drug company did not obtain consent and did not explain that the proposed treatment was experimental." "Pfizer denied the accusation" Source of Quote and Article "Dying for Drugs provided an extremely distorted picture of the pharmaceutical industry, and included two stories about Pfizer that were highly emotive and misleading." Source of Quote and Article "Questions Raised about Drug Companies Ethics in Poor Countries" - "Some Risky Experiments Are Done With Little Oversight" Source of Quote and Article "Prevailing wisdom suggests that the market mechanism serves to allocate funding for research and development on diseases in proportion to the expected return on investment for the new drug. Where the market mechanism fails to allocate resources equitably, how can governing bodies correct the failure of the market mechanism to encourage investment in previously neglected diseases? "Vaccinations, testing drugs on populations in the Third World and Developing Countries, Ethical Issues, Monitoring Groups, Medical Practitioners and Exposes" Source of Quote and Multiple Papers "One of the most popular in the class, Vioxx used by 300,000 people in Australia and tens of millions worldwide was pulled off the market last October". Source of Quote, Article and Full Television Presentation Organisations Working on These Issues On The Ground Around the World and Their Stories "Drug Industry,Prices, Profits and R&D,Campaign Contributions & Lobbying" Corporate Profits, The Drugs Industry, Political Donations, Politics and Buying Governments Click Here For Comprehensive Source Sites and Today's World News on the Drug Industry On the Mosaic Portal |
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Munir (2000)  Indonesia - Laureate Deceased "Munir first came to public prominence at the end of the Suharto period through his role in the campaign that ensued when, in late 1997 and early '98, two dozen pro-democracy activists were abducted in suspicious circumstances. At the height of this campaign, Munir founded the human rights organisation Kontras (Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence) with the backing of 12 pro-democracy NGOs, including YLBHI. Initially the Co-ordinator of its Working Committee, Munir chaired its Management Board." "On September 7th 2004, Munir died on a flight from Indonesia to The Netherlands. The autopsy undertaken by the Dutch Forensic Institute discovered lethal levels of arsenic in his body and we are confronted with the dreadful fact that Munir was the victim of an assassination" Source of Quote "Indonesian police plan to scrutinise the bank details of the national airline's outgoing chief, in an inquiry into the death of a rights activist." Source of Quote Who Killed Munir? "A Garuda pilot is arrested in the murder of an Indonesian human rights activist" Source of Quote Garuda Airlines guilty of murder ? "JAKARTA The murder of one of Indonesia's most dedicated human rights campaigners, Munir Said Thalib, reads like a classic who-done-it." Source of Quote Pilot Finally Named Suspect in Munir's Murder More than six months after human rights campaigner Munir was killed by arsenic poisoning while on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam, police have finally named a suspect: Garuda Indonesia pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto. "Garuda Conspiracy" A government-backed fact-finding team has said four Garuda employees were likely to have been involved in the conspiracy to kill Munir. The four are: former president director Indra Setiawan, corporate security head Ramelgia Anwar, Airbus 330 chief pilot secretary Rohainil Aini, and 'aviation security officer' Pollycarpus." "Fellow activist Usman Hamid, who is head of Kontras, said the team was seeking to verify information that intelligence agents were involved in Munir's murder, as the allegations could be quite damaging to certain active and retired members of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) if made public. "We have received information from sources, who wish to remain anonymous, alleging that a certain number of intelligence agency operatives were involved in, or at least knew about, the case of Munir's murder… It must be checked whether this information is aimed at assisting the Munir murder investigation or at leading it astray," he said. "And we appeal to all the sides, including BIN, to cooperate openly with the fact-finding team. We also appeal to all sides with knowledge or additional information or hidden proof about the Munir case to hand it over to the team," he added." Source Number One Source Number 2 "A spokesman for the Indonesian police said the outgoing director general of Garuda Airlines, Indra Setiawan, was being interviewed about Munir's death. Police last week named another man, Pollycarpus Priyanto, as a formal suspect. Mr Pollycarpus, a pilot for Garuda, allegedly gave his business class seat to Munir before disembarking at a stopover in Singapore. Munir is said to have sent an SMS text message from Singapore airport to his wife telling her he was feeling ill. A few hours later he was dead." Source of Quote Munir was not the only person to die in strange circumstances after flying with Garuda, some years ago two other prominent justice officials known for their campaigning against, and investigation of, the Indonesian intelligence and TNI machine, died within days of flying Garuda. In the case of those two people, no autopsy was undertaken to determine the cause of death. You can view a full television video production of all the background at SBS Australia's Dateline archives. March 30 2005, Garuda's Deadly Upgrade
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