Attention! Halim Perdanakusuma Airport Temporarily Closed Starting Wednesday 26 January

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) announced that the revitalization of Halim Perdanakusuma Airport, Jakarta will begin on Wednesday, January 26. Therefore, Halim Airport is temporarily closed.

"With the start of revitalization, Halim Airport will be temporarily closed starting January 26, 2022. The closing time is estimated to be a maximum of 3.5 months," said Transportation Ministry Spokesperson Adita Irawati as quoted by Antara, Friday, January 21.

He said the revitalization was carried out as a follow-up to the issuance of Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 9 of 2022 concerning the Revitalization of the Indonesian National Army Base Facilities / Halim Perdanakusuma Airport.

Adita Halim Airport revitalization was carried out to improve land and air side facilities, in order to improve aspects of flight safety, security and comfort.

Previously, since a few months ago, the Ministry of Transportation together with the Indonesian Air Force has coordinated with stakeholders in order to anticipate the impact of the cessation of flight service operations at Halim Airport.

"We inform you of the temporary closure of Halim Perdanakusuma Airport early so that all relevant parties are ready to take steps to handle and impact from the closure," he said.

The Ministry of Transportation through the Directorate General of Air Transportation has asked airport operators and airlines to prepare passenger handling steps such as flight cancellations, ticket refunds, flight route diversions, and so on.

"We also urge people who have purchased plane tickets with departures through Halim Airport to contact the airline so that the next handling process will be carried out," said Adita.

The work to be carried out is the construction on the air side and the land side, which includes the restoration of the runway and taxiway, increasing the parking capacity of the Naratetama and Naratama aircraft parking aprons; renovation of the Naratetama and Naratama buildings; renovation of operating buildings; improvement of the drainage system within the airport; and arrangement of other facilities.

Halim Perdanakusuma Airport has been serving scheduled, non-scheduled commercial flights, cargo, military flights and VVIP.

During the revitalization process, airport operations were temporarily suspended and there were no flights to and from Halim.

Furthermore, flight operations will be relocated to other airports, such as Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Husein Sastranegara Airport, Kertajati Airport, Budiarto Airport, and Pondok Cabe Airport.

Meanwhile, Head of the Indonesian Air Force Information Service (Kadispenau) Marsma TNI Indan Gilang Buldansyah explained that regarding the revitalization of Halim Air Base, the Indonesian Air Force carried out a Squadron Move (Transfer of Air Squadron and Engineering Squadron) at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, Jakarta to Husein Sastranegara Air Base Bandung and International Airport. Soekarno-Hatta.

Several units will operate from Husein Sastranegara Air Base, namely Air Squadron (Skadud) 2 which operates the CN-295 aircraft, Skadud 31 operates the C-130 Hercules aircraft and Engineering Squadron 021 which is in charge of carrying out light and moderate maintenance of the CN-295 and C aircraft. -130 Hercules.

Meanwhile Skadud 17, which operates the Boeing B-737 aircraft, will operate from Soekarno Hatta Airport, Tangerang, Banten.

"The implementation of the Skadron Move has been carried out in stages since December 2021. Furthermore, the ferry flights for Skadud 2, 17 and 31 will be carried out on Monday and Tuesday, January 24 and 25, 2022," he said.