The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 11/24/2009 9:47 PM
The Transportation Ministry will soon issue an “airport principle” containing guidelines for government agencies including regional administrations as well as airport operator companies in planning, constructing, and operating airports across Indonesia.
The ministry’s director of airports Bambang Tjahjono said that they aimed to impose the principle in January 2010, to follow up the newly-endorsed Law No. 1/2009 on Aviation that allowed private companies and regional administrations to build and operate airports.
“This guideline will give exact measures about airport development planning as well as criteria for local administrations that plan to construct a new airport in their territories,” Bambang told The Jakarta Post.
He criticized regional administrations that sometimes proposed to build new airports to the ministry without supporting comprehensive studies about the future plan of the airport.
“Sometimes regional leaders, governors and regents, are too ambitious to build airports but lack market study. As a result, new airports become deserted or even abandoned,” Bambang said.
He cited the failing Samarinda Baru airport in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, the unclear West Java International airport plan in Majalengka, West Java, and the deserted Notohadinegoro airport in Jember, East Java, as examples.
Data from the ministry recorded 196 airports nationwide, excluding those owned by private parties and military that were not used for public flights, Bambang said.
“The minister has recently approved the plans to develop 31 new airports.”
Of the new airports, only the West Java International Airports in Majalengka is planned to be a big airport.
The rest are small airports, mostly in eastern Indonesia, such as Aceh Singkil in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Enggano in Bengkulu, Banyuwangi in East Java, Wakatobi in Southeast Sulawesi, Tual Baru in Maluku, Nabire Baru in Papua, and Halamahera Tengah in North Maluku.
“Most of those small airports will be funded by local budgets. The central government is only approving their proposals,” Tjahjono said. (bbs)
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