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Faisal Maliki Baskoro | September 15, 2010

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tedjo
6:57am Sep 16, 2010

d airport's management should hv been under foreign management a long time ago. d place is a DUMP!! ideally it should hv been upgraded every few years but it looks like it was last overhauled in the 80's. Small wonder the radar&electricity breaks down. As indonesia's main port to the world soetta shows foreigners all they need to know bout indonesia; corrupt, decrepit, and barely held together by a wing&a prayer..


peterR
6:18am Sep 15, 2010

or finding an international partner that fully understands how an airport should be run in Indonesia,” he said.

Badly? Corruptly? Incompetently? Indifferently? Oneforyoutwoformely? Indonesialy?

hypocrat
4:19am Sep 15, 2010

Sukarno-Hatta is of great economic importance for Indonesia. Not in the least because Indonesian airliners must expand, and are expanding their routes to counter foreign competition. This requires the building of hubs on modern, efficient airports with a high degree of safety. The airport and airliners create jobs and as truthfully stated in the article, Sukarno-Hatta also functions as a business card representing Indonesia.

It's ridiculous if -again IF- politicians can allocate 200 million US Dollars to build a new lavish office with a gym, swimming pool and spa for legislators, and no money can be found to modernize Sukarno-Hatta. On the other hand it wouldn't suprise me. Too often Indonesian politicians work for themselves and their cronies rather than for the Indonesian people.


Jeanne Hachette
2:07am Sep 15, 2010

An airport should be run in Indonesia like in the other countries , what is special about Indonesia? Does it need to be messy , filthy? Sell the airport to Hong Kong or Singapore and you will learn how an efficient and well organized airport works. Oh sorry , I forget about the nationalist pride of the politicians which is the biggest excuse for doing nothing except filling up their pockets

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Jakarta.The State Enterprises Ministry on Tuesday said the state airport manager should partner with a private investor to renovate and operate the crumbling Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Hari Susetyo, the ministry’s deputy for transportation and logistics, said it would be difficult for state-owned Angkasa Pura II to patch up the airport without outside assistance.

Hari did not elaborate, but said the partnership could be with an international airport operator if necessary. 

“We want AP II to improve the airport, making it a world-class facility. In order to do this, we need support from domestic or foreign private companies,” Hari said.

“It’s not that AP II is not capable of running the airport by itself, but rather that we’re hoping that the joint venture can speed up the rehabilitation of the airport,” he added. 

“We need to constantly improve it. If necessary, we might cooperate with international airport operators.”

Hari said AP II was carrying out a feasibility study that included an investment plan and a blueprint for the airport’s rehabilitation, as well as guidelines for a possible partnership. 

He said the proposed joint venture would require the approval of the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy and the Finance Ministry.  Opened in 1984, Soekarno-Hatta Airport is seriously overcrowded.

The head of the International Air Transport Association last month said it was past its prime and unworthy of Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Days later, a 1.7-second power outage delayed dozens of flights.

Last month, the air traffic control radar crashed for the second time since June 2009, again disrupting traffic.

Tengku Burhanuddin, secretary general for the Indonesia National Air Carriers Association (Inaca), said private participation should cover all aspects of repairing and operating the airport. 

“All this time, AP II has been forced to handle the airports [in western Indonesia]. They weren’t capable of doing a good job, they were just given too much work.”

Aviation observer Dudi Sudibyo said finding a suitable investor would not be easy. 

“The challenge is finding a local partner that has international standards, especially if we want to make the airport closer to international standards, or finding an international partner that fully understands how an airport should be run in Indonesia,” he said.

Albert Tjoeng, IATA’s Asian spokesman, told the Jakarta Globe it would be important to reinvest aviation proceeds in the airport and create a regulatory framework for development and operation. 

“Planning and implementation of the next stage of development is critical,” he said.  


Additional reporting by Irvan Tisnabudi