Good News From Indonesia

Indonesia to buy presidential jet from Boeing at $58 mln. Indonesia will soon have a presidential jet valued at 58 million U.S. dollars following negotiation with the United States aircraft maker Boeing, the country’s largest news portal detikcom quoted an official as saying on Wednesday. “We have managed to negotiate the price to 58 million [...]

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Garuda Indonesia plans to order up to 50 narrow-body aircraft for its low-cost subsidiary Citilink at the upcoming Paris Air Show. Half of these will be firm orders while the remaining 25 are options, said Garuda’s CEO Emirsyah Satar. He declined to specify the aircraft type, but said he expects deliveries to begin from 2014. [...]

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Community airline FlyFirefly Sdn Bhd is planning to fly to more destinations in Indonesia from its main hub at the KL International Airport, Kota Kinabalu and Johor Baru. Managing director Eddy Leong said plans were already in the pipeline to introduce services to Balikpapan in Kalimantan, Medan, Padang and Palembang in Sumatra. Indonesia offers good [...]

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Bali’s southernmost port of Benoa has been names the “Best Port Welcome 2010″ by London-based Dream World Cruise Destination Magazine. The recognition was handed to Sapta Nirwandar of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention 2011 held at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Florida on March 16, 2011. Iwan [...]

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Bali Moving Ahead with Plans for a US$ 770 million Rail System. (2011-04-11) The Indonesian government is moving ahead with plans to construct a 560 kilometer long rail system circumnavigating Bali at a total cost of Rp. 7 trillion (US$770 million). The State news agency Antara quoted the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, [...]

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The Korea Railroad Research Institute is planning $20 billion in investment to help develop two railway projects in Indonesia, an executive at the Indonesia Chamber of Commerce said. Biben Akbar, the head of intercommittee organization at the chamber, also known as Kadin, said on Thursday that Kadin met with the KRRI’s director, Sung Kyou-choi, last [...]

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? Indonesia and Russia on Monday renewed their air service agreement to conduct direct flights between each nation, the Antara news agency reported. “The new agreement is made to replace the old one made in 1990 and provides an important step for development of bilateral cooperation,” said Herry Bakti Gumay, director general of air transportation. [...]

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The government is considering expanding the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport or building a new one elsewhere as the current facility is thought to be no longer adequate for the traffic it handles, an airport spokesman said on Thursday. Soekarno-Hatta Airport, which sits 35 kilometers northwest of the capital, was now considered too small for the fast-growing [...]

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Currently, the aviation pioneer in several parts of the archipelago such as Papua is still using the old production aircraft, like the Twin Otter. Some existing units have improper wear necessitating a more modern aircraft. Therefore, since 2006, PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) to develop aircraft with a capacity of 19 persons N219 to replace [...]

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By Miyuru Sandaruwan Did you use to believe that Singapore was South East Asia’s busiest airport ? Or Bangkok ? It’s time to change your belief now. Indonesia’s Jakarta Soekarano Hatta ( CGK ) airport has now surpassed both Singapore and Bangkok to become Southeast Asia’s busiest airport. For the 12 months ending September 2010, [...]

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