Garuda Indonesia Garuda Indonesia Garuda Indonesia (officially PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk ) is the national airline of Indonesia. The airline is headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, near Jakarta. As of 11 December 2014, the airline is rated as a 5-star airline by the international airline review firm Skytrax. The air carrier was previously known as Garuda Indonesian Airways. Founded in 1947 as KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, the airline is now a major airline and the 20th member of the global airline alliance SkyTeam. It is the second largest airline of Indonesia after Lion Air and it operates scheduled flights to
National emblem of Indonesia Great Seal. Finally, Sultan Hamid II gave the final touch and create the official national emblem rules on scale and color guide. The design of this last version was still remain the same ever since, and officially recognized and used as the national emblem of the Republic of Indonesia. The Garuda clutches in its talons a scroll bearing the National Motto of Indonesia, ""Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"" which is an Old Javanese stanza of the epic poem "Sutasoma" attributed to the 14th-century poet sage of the Javanese Majapahit Empire, Empu Tantular. The text was redesicovered by the Dutch scholar Brandes from