Aircraft Entering Indonesia Can Be No More Than 10 Years Old
Thursday, 01 March, 2007 | 16:39 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Cirebon: The Transportation Department is preparing a regulation for commercial aircraft entering Indonesia to be no more than ten years.

“Currently the maximum age of aircraft entering Indonesia is 20 years,” said Transportation Minister Hatta Rajasa when visiting Cirebon Railway Station, West Java, with Vice President Jusuf Kalla yesterday (28/2).

According to him, the regulation will be included in revisions to a Transportation Ministerial Decision and age limitation will also be applied to ships and trains.

“For upgrading and in order to lower risks,” said Hatta.

At Kroya Railway Station, Central Java, Vice President Kalla said that the government had decided to minimize the maximum age of all modes of transportation.

The reason for this is that the age of modes of transportation is also a factor that can cause accidents.

“The age of all air, sea transportation and railway equipment is already quite old.”

The Indonesia National Air Carriers Association (INACA) has asked the government not to rush to put the policy into effect.

This is because operators need time in order to be able to adjust this with the contracts that they have already agreed.

“Socialization takes more or less one year,” said Tengku Burhanudin, INACA Secretary General, yesterday at his office in Jakarta.

Oktamandjaya Wiguna, Ivansyah and Harun Mahbub