Cilacap airport

Cilacap airport
to be expanded

SEMARANG, Central Java: Tunggul Wulung airport in Cilacap will
soon be expanded to allow jets to land there.

The 600-meter runway will be lengthened by 300 meters so that
planes the size of Fokker F-28s can land at Cilacap, a coastal
city in the southern coast of Java which houses a major oil
refinery complex.

Gatot Soedjantoko, head of the Central Java Transportation
Office, said that work on the Rp 3.5 billion project is underway.
It should be completed next year, he added.

The money will go to the construction of a new air terminal
and various facilities, Gatot said. (arf)