NEW LOMBOK AIRPORT May 2007

During the meeting in Hotel Grand Legi, Transportation minister, Hatta Rajasa stated that the airport development still continues. The Minister said that the development must be done. The purpose of this airport is to support the development of tourism sector in Lombok, he said.

NEW LOMBOK AIRPORT April 2007

According to Mr. Swetja, the General Manager of PT. Angkasa Pura the airport development is still following the planning. In April they have started with the drainage system for the ground, setting up a fence around the airport area and the construction road for inspection the area.

Development Finally Started November 2005
MATARAM, Finally the start of the development of the new Lombok International Airport in Tanak Awu village Central Lombok district, as the substitute for the existing Selaparang airport in Mataram. Wednesday morning (30/11), Minister of Transportation Mr.M.Hatta Radjasa together with Managing Director of PT Angkasa Pura, Bambang Darwoto and Governor of Nusa Tenggara Barat, Lalu Serinata was pounding the jar to the heavy equipment frame as sign for starting the ground breaking (see picture on the right).

According to Minister of Transportation Hatta Radjasa, this is the second airport development by PT Angkasa Pura I after Makassar which is done by them selves, and not like the other airport which follows the government pattern. But the fund can be from investor, central government budget and local government budget, he said. For the development of Lombok International Airport which has a base length of 2.750 meter and width of 45 meter, the first fund to make the airport suitable for landing of Airbus 310 and Boing 747 will amount IDR 625 billion, not included the land price for the finally released land of 538 hectare after 12 years in dispute. The last piece of land of 7,4 hectare was paid by local government of Nusa Tenggara Barat on Saturday (26/11) for IDR 2,6 billion or IDR 3,5 million per are (100 m2).

The new Lombok Airport is big enough for Indonesia area, said Managing Director of PT Angkasa Pura I Bambang Darwoto explaining.

Lombok international Airport is build to substitute the existing Airport considering of the increasing demand of air transportation. Hatta Radjasa mention that the number of airplane passengers after the crisis of year 2000 reached 9,6 million people, year 2002 12 million people, 2004 increase again and become 24 million and year 2005 is estimated around 30 million passenger.

Even more now Soekarno Hatta Airport (Jakarta) is mentioned as the number 2 of the most crowded and fast developing airport in the world.

Therefore it is necessary to develop this airport, he said. Because we have people who need to travel for economical, social, cultural, political and for distribution reasons.

This increased mobility, if not anticipated, will also cause technical problem. For example Selaparang airport (existing airport) can not get bigger than 1 million passengers per year. Also Nusa Tenggara Barat has a tourism potential and economic growth, he said. Also some technical problems caused by the environment which can disturb the flight.

Governor of Nusa Tenggara Barat, Lalu Serinata explained that the new airport is urgently needed because Nusa Tenggara Barat have nine tourist destination areas which are already developed.

Those areas can not be developed further if the airport can not be used by a wide body plane which have more than 4 hour time flight.

 

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