Good News From Indonesia

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government plans to build 14 new airports in various places throughout Indonesia, as well as develop and rehabilitate the 116 airports. Not only that, the government also plans to build a new rail network along the 150 kilometers. This is related to government efforts to improve connectivity between regions. [...]

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Transformasi Garuda Indonesia adalah sesuatu yang sebenarnya mengejutkan, dari salah urus yang luar biasa, menjadi salah satu perusahaan paling prospektif di Indonesia. Saat ini Garuda Indonesia telah mengantongi “Bintang 4″ dari SkyTrax, sebuah pencapaian dramatis. CAPA juga menobatkan Garuda Indonesia sebagai maskapai dengan pelayanan onboard terbaik di Asia. Suatu hal yang tidak terbayangkan 5 tahun [...]

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Garuda Indonesia has firmed up an order with Airbus for 15 A320s and 10 A320neos. The aircraft will be operated by Garuda’s low-cost unit Citilink, replacing its fleet of Boeing 737-300s and -400s. The engine selection for the aircraft will be announced “in the near future”, said Airbus. Garuda signed a preliminary agreement for the [...]

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New Routes, Planes, Logo for Garuda’s Citilink Expansion National airline Garuda Indonesia plans to more than quadruple the amount of people that Citilink, its budget carrier, will fly in the next four years with new routes and aircraft, a top executive said on Wednesday. Emirsyah Satar, president director of Garuda Indonesia, said the number of [...]

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ATR wins 30 aircraft deal from Indonesia’s Wings Air Lion Air subsidiary Wings Air of Indonesia today announced the signing of a contract for the purchase of 15 ATR 72-500s, as well as options covering another 15 of ATR’s new 72-600 series turboprops. The value of the order, originally revealed in November last year as [...]

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An American entrepreneur who has invested in Indonesian start-up Go-Jek is confident the motorcycle taxi company can one day take on the world. “Go-Jek is currently preparing a larger business plan,” Arthur Benjamin told the Jakarta Globe during his recent visit to the country. The 64-year-old said Go-Jek’s Jakarta business model could be replicated overseas. [...]

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West Nusa Tenggara or NTB province near Bali Island will soon see the completion of its Lombok International Airport that can also accommodate Air Bus 330 or Boeing 767 aircraft. Lombok International Airport (BIL), located in Tanah Awu, Pujut sub-district, Central Lombok district, is about 40 kilometers south of the old Mataram Selaparang Airport. The [...]

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Indonesian cultural practices and traditional designs shall influence and mark the construction and expansion plans for the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, state airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II pointed out on Monday. The grand design for expansion plans is being drafted out by a team of architects from the Bandung Institute of Technology, or ITB. “However, [...]

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The president of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, says the quality of Indonesian airlines has improved 80 percent since his first visit in 2007. One of the areas of focus is the development and establishment of human resources in the airline business. For this reason, Garuda Indonesia will buy two Airbus 330-200 [...]

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On August 2011, PT Kereta Api Indonesia launched an executive train “Argo Bromo Anggrek New Image” that equipped with wi-fi, which will facilitate passengers to access the internet for free on the train route Jakarta – Surabaya – Jakarta that carried 400 passengers everyday. PT KAI also provides quality cellular network in the train and [...]

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