Open Soekarno-Hatta Airport Management Cooperation, Ministry Of SOEs Kaji Scheme Joint Venture

One area at Soekarno-Hatta Airport. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

BALI - Deputy Minister of BUMN II Kartika Wirjoatmodjo said he would cooperate with the management of Soekarno-Hata Airport (Soetta), Jakarta, just like Kualanamu Airport in North Sumatra.

"Regarding Soetta, we are indeed based on the new regulation of the minister of transportation, so basically Angkasa Pura can now cooperate with its airports by way that airport business entities can be spin-off to joint ventures below it," Kartika said at a press conference. SOE International Conference quoted by Antara, Tuesday 18 October.

He said the Ministry of SOEs had carried out the regulatory testing at Kualanamu Airport, North Sumatra by creating a joint venture company with GMR Airport Consortium India to manage with the airport, and there was an investment commitment from GMR to improve and expand capacity in Kualanamu.

The Ministry of SOEs itself has planned to expand its capacity by building a runway or runway 3 Soetta before COVID-19.

However, the problem after the pandemic turned out to be that the traffic recovery in Soetta was very fast, which currently reaches 85 percent faster than expected.

"This makes us think about accelerating Soetta's cooperation. Maybe the pattern is the same as Kualanamu Airport where we will create a joint venture to expand Soetta airport. We are still mapping whether all terminals or maybe new terminals, terminals 4 and terminals 3, this is being considered," said Kartika.

He added, in terms of interest, their investors are very interested because the movement of the aircraft in Soetta is the highest in Asia.

Soetta is one of the busiest airports in Asia with the prospect of growing passengers reaching 100 million in the future.

"I think this is a very interesting and interesting collaboration from various investors both strategically and financially in the world," said Kartika.

Previously, PT Angkasa Pura II (Persero) said that the trend of international flights at airports managed by AP II continued to increase towards a recovery period.

AP II President Director Muhammad Awaluddin Awaluddin said Soekarno-Hatta Airport is an airport that is always open for international flights in the midst of a pandemic.

The number of international passenger movements at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in January - August 2022 was recorded at 3.56 million passengers.

Throughout Semester I-2022, the number of international routes at Soekarno-Hatta Airport is around 100 international routes dominated by repatriation flights and related to handling COVID-19, including 28 flight routes to and from Southeast Asia, 17 routes to and from East Asia, 8 routes to and from the Middle East, 9 routes to and from and from Europe, 13 routes to and from South Asia and also there are flights to and from South America and Africa.