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First of all, Air Asia is on the "blacklist" because "Air Asia Indonesia" is a seperate franchise opperating under the Air Asia name. It trades through the same website, but it is 100% Indonesian-owned (the "original" Air Asia is Malaysian-owned, though there is now also a seperate Thai franchise).
The "real" Air Asia opperates some - but not all - of the international flights into Indonesia (you can tell by the flight codes: Air Asia Indonesia is QZ; real Air Asia is AK), but all internal flights are Indonesian Air Asia.
Second thing: safety standards.
Things have been pretty shoddy in the aviation industry in Indonesia in recent years, mainly because the sector expanded so rapidly with lax regulation.
The EU "blacklist" (actually a ban on Indonesian carriers opperating in EU airspace) was introduced after a string of incidents - including two fatal crashes - in early 2007. It wasn't particularly scientific, just a blanket outright ban issued on all carriers. It was controversial at the time and remains so. It was however, entirely symbolic as none of the airlines flew to Europe, and none of them, with the exception of Garuda, was ever likely to start doing so.
However, it probably did have a significant impact on the Indonesian government's attitude, and there has been some very significant improvement in the civil aviation industry in Indonesia in the last 18 months.
The truly nasty Adam Air after several final warnings has had its license revoked on safety grounds and no longer opperates, as have a couple of smaller opperators. Rising regional player Lion Air has shifted their fleet upgrade up a gear and is soon to phase out its remaining old aircraft, and being as serious as they are about regional expansion, especially in Australia, are obviously concerned with safety.
Mandala has completely transformed itself, bringing in European management, buying brand new planes and shifting maintainance to Singapore. And other opperators have certainly got their acts together.
Why the "blacklist" has not yet been revised is not quite clear (it may well be for mysterious "diplomatic reasons", or it may simply be because it's irrelevant - none of the airlines is flying to Europe).
I'm a seriously nervous flier, but I would have no problem taking an internal flight in Indonesia with any of the following airlines: Lion Air, Mandala, Indonesia Air Asia, or Garuda.
The only remaining major Indonesian airline whose standards were seriously dodgy at the time the ban was put in place was Batavia; as they haven't had their license revoked (unlike Adam Air) I would guess things have improved somewhat, though personally I might still avoid them.
You shouldn't have any concerns about using the other airlines mentioned above.
