Is that grammatically correct to say 'Garuda are correct'?
A collective noun is a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit.
In American usage, a collective noun takes a singular verb when it refers to the collection considered as a whole, as in:
* The family was united on this question.
It takes a plural verb when it refers to the members of the group considered as individuals, as in:
* My family are always fighting among themselves.
Michael Swan (Practical English Usage) elaborates on this singular/plural usage, and disagrees about treating collective nouns as both singular and plural in the same construction:
In British English, singular words like family, team, government, which refer to groups of people, can be used with either singular or plural verbs and pronouns.
* This team is/are going to lose.
I come from London and Charlton is the team I support and I am always optimistic that they will win.
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Taken from here , but it's non-technical here
NB. Garuda predominantly refers to "our fleet".
A visit to Indonesia in 2008 may not be a very exciting idea for visitors of the OFFICIAL site www.my-indonesia.info, which reads: "The government held its first Visit Indonesia program in 1991, which was not particularly successful, increasing the number of foreign tourists by merely 400,000 from the year earlier"...
I fail to understand why do they promote/stress their own failure in 1991 on their official site!
Well, perhaps they were just lazy and did not understand content of Jakarta Post article they copied-and-pasted in their site.
Let's hope that potential visitors will hear about good things in Indonesia from their friends, not from mediocre official materials.
Why not scrap the visa altogether? When I first arrived you merely got in the queue and had a small stamp put in your passport, you know just like they still do in tourist friendly places like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand?
Then they changed it and you had to fork over $25, and have a full page sticker inserted, at one desk before traipsing over to another desk to get another stamp which takes up another quarter page. Thus Indonesia places itself alongside Vietnam, Myanmar, China etc as not very tourist friendly.
Of course they'd lose their twenty five bucks a head so an Aussie family of five decides to go to Thailand instead of paying a pointless $125 in visa fees and they spend their money in Phuket rather than in Bali. Congratulations to the clown in the tourist board who came up with that idea.
First things first, Martin.
When was the first Visit Indonesia Year? Wikipedia has it as 1992, and having had another look at the official website you cite, I trust Wiki a lot more!!!
The official site appears to have been put together by a 10 year old as a holiday project.
The English on the site is execrable:
"Mentawai Island: the Ultimate Diversity of the Hidden Paradise
Come, See and Listen to nature beat-up of Mentawai, soon you will find the heart and soul of Mentawai relief your life."
Eh?
And their attitude towards orangutans is absolutely outrageous.
"Have you ever imagine, that there is creature who can smile, a real smile with decent facial expression, having their morning breakfast with hands and obviously they act like human being? Well, they all are hairy all over the body."
Then there's the matter of the poll in which readers are asked, " What do you think about this website’s new look?"
66% of c.2,300 readers give the site a thumbs down.
Anyway, from what I recall, Visit Indonesia Year 1992 ran a very successful campaign ~ in Indonesia! The logo was a 'toy' rhino which was everywhere and the odd, very odd, statue can still be seen dotted around.
Checking my collection of Indonesia-related brochures, I have one for "Visit Indonesia 1991" (not 1992). And it is actually quite good one (for early 90s). Far better than the cited site. There are reports that www.my-indonesia.info has a budget of 17.5 billion Rp (!)... but information is weird or inadequate (check provinces like Jambi, West Kalimantan, North Maluku, Aceh). I gave thumbs down too 
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