JAKARTA-- Angkasa Pura Airports will develop eight airports with an investment of US $ 2 billion, or about 25 trillion IDR at an exchange rate of 12,500 IDR per US dollar. The development of the eight airports will be start in 2014 until 2020.
Head of Corporate Planning & Performance Angkasa Pura Airports Yudhaprana Sugarda revealed, potential aviation market in Indonesia is quite large with a population of 244.5 million people, but the new traffic 94.9 million passengers. This means that only about 39% of the population who are traveling by plane.
While in Singapore with a population of only 5.4 million people, but the traffic just to reach 39 million passengers, or 722% of the total population. "In Indonesia, the traffic is small due to limited transportation infrastructure in the air," he said on Seminar of Indonesian Economic Prospects 2015 and Infrastructure Development Urgency in Jakarta, Wednesday (28/1).
Therefore, he continued, it will develop eight of the 13 airports managed by the company until 2020. Eighth airports to be developed, among others, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Bali with an investment of US $ 24 million, Juanda Airport in Surabaya (US $ 524 million), Sultan Hasanuddin Airport Makassar (US $ 500 million), and Sepinggan Airport (US $ 25 million). Furthermore, it is Kulonprogro Yogyakarta Airport (US $ 598 million), Banjarmasin Syamsuddin Noor Airport (US $ 142 million), Ahmad Yani Airport (US $ 156 million), and Sam Ratulangi Airport (US $ 320 million).
As for this year will be developed in five airports in advance, namely Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Semarang Ahmad Yani Airport, Makassar Hasanuddin Airport, Yogyakarta Kulonprogro Airport, and Banjarmasin Syamsuddin Noor Airport. "We recognize the airline is quite rapid development in the past three years, so we will develop the airport to increase the capacity of the airport," said Yudha.
According to him, it will develop from the airportness, such as arrival and departure terminal improvements, additional aircraft parking areas (apron), as well as repair and improvement of the quality of the runway. "For example, Juanda Airport will develop a second runway and a third terminal to increase its capacity," he said.
Capacity of Juanda Airport is good in terminals 1 and 2 currently only about 12-13 million passengers per year, while the number of passengers has penetrated 18 million passengers per year. The airport development planned reclamation or other means. Company, he continued, is also preparing a master plan development of Ngurah Rai airport with a capacity of 40 million passengers, no explanation following the local government to develop another airport on the island.
Currently, the airport which has been developed that has a capacity of 22 million passengers per year. Invite the investors , Yudha added, development and construction of a new airport is constrained by land acquisition.
The requested public land prices are sometimes unreasonable and often capricious. "If the price of land is expensive, of the feasibility of the project, the land price should be realistic and we can not peg the price of it," he said. If this problem can be overcome, he continued, many strategic partners that will come to invest in airports to be constructed.
The strategic partner will be willing to provide funding for the construction of the airport. The Company also will propose funding the state capital participation (PMN) for the development of the airport. "Currently we are still inventoring and recording the investors who are interested. We will open as possible to those who are interested in the development of the airport," he said.
Earlier, President Director Tommy Soetomo said, the development of airports which will be aimed at increasing the capacity and compete when the imposition of the ASEAN Open Sky by the end of this year. Infrastructure and airport facilities is a major aspect of the most focused to deal with it. [DSS / Investor Daily]
