Hey Angelo. The subject matter was more about domestic flights within Indonesia & how ticket prices skyrocketed to double & triple the price. This was a draconian measure by President Jokowi using "fuel prices" as an excuse, that in turn affected the local people the most as they're the vast majority of daily passengers of domestic flights. The average wages of Indonesian people aren't as high as westerners wages, so if a flight tripled in price it meant a return ticket is probably a whole month's wages
What didn't make sense was that I could fly Bali to Bangkok or Perth direct for around 1-1.2 million rupiah regularly by Indonesian airlines, but flying Bali to Jakarta was same price but only half the distance. So it's not entirely about cut price budget airlines selling cheap tickets, it's more about the executive order by the President of Indonesia to raise the price of domestic flights. Many flights were half empty.
I've flown to Indonesia almost 90 times, & have flown many times on domestic flights within Indonesia. In my experience of flying domestically within Indonesia many times over the years, I'm not exaggerating if I say 90-97% of passengers are lokal Indonesian people...these people are affected the most, not me. That is why so many flights were half empty or less, because of an executive order of the President of Indonesia