Minister Of Transportation Budi Karya Reveals The Construction Of Nusantara Airport In IKN Is Constrained By Weather

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JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi revealed the construction of the Naratama Airport (Bandara) (very very import person) named Nusantara Airport in the new capital of Indonesia, North Penajam Paser Regency, East Kalimantan Province (Kaltim), is constrained by weather. The construction of airports means to support Nusantara City transportation, the new capital of Indonesia, said Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi, in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Wednesday 31 July, cannot be carried out massively due to weather constraints. "The construction of weather constraints in the last two months, so it cannot be done massively," he said, quoted from Antara. A number of these obstacles include weather anomalies in East Kalimantan, which in the last few months the region has often been rained with high intensity. Throughout July 2024, only eight days airport construction could be carried out massively due to sunny weather, he said, for this reason, the work was carried out in collaboration with the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) to carry out weather modifications to support the airport construction. It is estimated that Nusantara Airport can be operated in the early stages at the end of August 2024, according to Budi Karya Sumadi, the airport construction was carried out massively starting in August 2024. "Modified weather for rain in Nusantara City, the southeast wind towards the mainland has the potential to bring rain clouds and modified to bring rain clouds before reaching land," said Head of BMKG Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Class I Station (SAMS) Sepinggan, Balikpapan Kukuh Thousanddiyanto City. BMKG with the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) and the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), he said, deploying four units of the Weather Modification Technology (TMC) to supply salt or NaCi through air according to the specified coordinates to increase or reduce the intensity of rain.

Three points of the Nusantara Airport courtyard or aircraft parking space (apron) facility, Director General of Highways of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Rachman Arief replied, which functions as a helicopter landing (helipad) for important guest purposes in the planning process. Then for the runway (runway) airport along 3,500 meters with an area of 3,000 square meters, he explained, it is targeted that the runway construction will reach 2,200 meters by the end of August 2024 and December 2024 the construction of the terminal building will be completed 100 percent. The progress of the construction of the terminal building into the roof, electrical, and pipejailing stages, as well as column work, installation of plumbing pipes, steel frames, and walls including other supporting facilities.