Number Of Airplanes Coming To Tarakan North Kalimantan Grows 18.42 Percent

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The number of planes arriving through Juwata Tarakan international airport, North Kalimantan during the homecoming and return flows grew by 18.42 percent.

"Aircraft arriving have a growth of 18.42 percent, namely 190 aircraft in 2019 compared to 225 aircraft in 2022," said Head of the Public Service Agency of the Juwata Airport Organizing Unit Office, Agus Priyanto in Tarakan, quoted from Antara, Thursday, May 12.

Agus explained that the number was based on data at the 2022 Eid al-Fitr Transport post which was held for 16 days from April 25 to May 10, 2022.

In addition, the number of incoming cargoes grew by 19.12 percent, which was 164.058 kilograms in 2019 compared to 195.433 kilograms in 2022.

However, the number of arriving passengers experienced a contraction of 40.58 percent, which was 15.104 people in 2019 compared to 8.975 people in 2022.

"For the number of departing aircraft, there was a growth of 11.94 percent, namely as many as 201 aircraft in 2019 compared to 225 aircraft in 2022," Agus said.

Meanwhile, the number of departing cargoes grew by 15.04 percent, which was 114.324 kilograms in 2019 compared to 131.408 kilograms in 2022.

"And the number of departing passengers has decreased by minus 23.09 percent, which is 17.529 people in 2019 compared to 13.481 people in 2022," he said.

He also said the data on cargo movement growth in 2022 was quite large when compared to 2019 at 19.12 percent.

The growth of departed goods indicates a fairly high economic increase from the Tarakan area during the Eid transportation period in 2022.