Govt will start airport expansion projects soon<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The government, in cooperation with several
\nforeign companies, will start expansion projects at a number of
\nairports this year, including the Juanda Airport in Surabaya,
\nEast Java, the Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, and the
\nHasanuddin Airport in Ujungpandang, South Sulawesi.<\/p>\n
Fachri Zainuddin, president of PT Angkasa Pura I, the state-
\nowned firm assigned to operate 10 airports in the country, told
\nreporters here yesterday that the expansion of Juanda and Ngurah
\nRai would be financed by the Japan-based Overseas Economic
\nCooperation Fund.<\/p>\n
\"The Hasanuddin Airport expansion will be funded by loans from
\nthe French government,\" he said without further detail.<\/p>\n
Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto said earlier
\nthat a feasibility study on the Hasanuddin airport expansion was
\nconducted by SofreAvia, a French company.<\/p>\n
The government announced last year that it planned to invite
\nlocal and foreign companies to take part in the construction and
\noperation of several airports under a Build-Operate and Transfer
\n(BOT) contract.<\/p>\n
Minister Haryanto said earlier that the expansion of the
\nJuanda Airport will cost around $115 million and the Hasanuddin
\nAirport around $300 million.<\/p>\n
Other expansion projects include the Adi Sumarmo Airport in
\nSolo, Central Java (costing $130 million), the Sam Ratulangi
\nAirport in Manado, North Sulawesi ($179 million), and the
\nSepinggan airport in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan ( $150 million).
\nMeanwhile, the construction of a new airport in Central Lombok,
\nWest Nusa Tenggara, will cost around $170 million and the
\nconstruction of a new airport in Medan will run $600 million.<\/p>\n
Fachri said that a number foreign companies have expressed
\nkeen interest in the projects.<\/p>\n
\"Bracknell of Canada has proposed taking part in the Juanda
\nAirport project and the British Airport Authority in the Ngurah
\nRai Airport project,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Angkasa Pura I now manages 10 airports: Ngurah Rai,
\nHasanuddin, Juanda, Sepinggan, Sam Ratulangi, Adi Sumarmo,
\nAdisucipto in Yogyakarta, the Syamsudin Noor Airport in
\nBanjarmasin of South Kalimantan, the Polonia in Medan of North
\nSumatra, and the Frans Kaisiepo in Biak of Irian Jaya.<\/p>\n
The state company will soon manage three more airports -- the
\nPattimura in Ambon of Maluku, the Ahmad Yani in Semarang of
\nCentral Java and the Selaparang in Lombok of West Nusa Tenggara.<\/p>\n
PT Cipta Lamtoro Gung Persada, owned by President Soeharto's
\neldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, has proposed the
\nexpansion and management of Adi Sumarmo at Rp 260 billion.<\/p>\n
The company, in cooperation with Schiphol Airport of the
\nNetherlands, will also build a new airport in Medan under a BOT
\nscheme.<\/p>\n
Profits<\/p>\n
Fachri added that the Hasanuddin Airport will start handling
\ninternational service of commercial flights on March 28.<\/p>\n
\"Malaysian Airlines will link Ujungpandang and Kuala Lumpur
\ntwo times a week with Boeing 737-500 aircraft,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He also said that his company's profit level increased to Rp
\n67 billion ($30.45 million) last year from Rp 53 billion (24
\nmillion) in 1993.<\/p>\n
\"This gain was caused by the increase in international flights
\nby several foreign airlines including Japan Airlines, which
\ndoubled its Denpasar-Tokyo services from seven to 14 times
\nweekly,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"This year I expect a 20 percent increase in profit, though
\nseveral of the airports under our management still suffer
\nlosses,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The airports suffering losses in 1994 included Sam Ratulangi,
\nFrans Kaisiepo, Sepinggan, Adi Sumarmo and Syamsudin Noor. Three
\nmore airports, including Pattimura, Ahmad Yani and the Selaparang
\nwhich will be managed by Angkasa Pura I next month, also lost
\nmoney last year. (icn)<\/p>",
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