AP II Welcomes Plan to Build Airport in Reclamation Island
11 October 2017 19:54 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - State-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura (AP) II positively welcomed Soekarno-Hatta Airport 2 in a reclamation island in Tangerang.
“This is an alternative to anticipate the Soekarno-Hatta Airport saturation,” AP II corporate secretary Agus Haryadi told Tempo today, Oct. 11.
Agus revealed the AP II has been in communications with the Tangerang administration to discuss the cooperation scheme.
Read: Soekarno Hatta Airport 2 on Tangerang Reclaimed Island
Earlier, the government pitched a plan to build Soekarno-Hatta Airport 2 in Islet 4 located on the north coast of Tangerang Regency.
Tangerang Spatial Planning Agency head Taufik Emil said the plan is still being finalized by the Transportation Ministry’s Air Transportation Directorate General.
“It’s still in the feasibility study stage. There’s no prediction yet when the Transportation Ministry will commence the construction,” Emil said.
The Islet 4 is one of the seven islets to be developed in the Tangerang reclamation project. About 9,000 hectares of the sea territory along the north coast of Tangerang will be turned into seven man-made islands.
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