TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The Indonesian Air Traffic Controllers Association (IATCA) urged the realization of having single provider service for all Indonesian air territories. The aim is harmonization of aviation navigation service in Indonesia.
IATCA's President, Adri Gunawan Wibisono, said that aviation navigation service carried out by several service controller units like now causes impediments in terms of coordination. “Every unit has different priorities,” he said during a hearing with the House's Transportation Commission at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, yesterday (7/6).
The hearing was held to gather input for the revision of Decree No. 15/1992 on Aviation.
Indonesia's air traffic service is currently executed by the Transportation Department's Technical Executing Unit; PT Angkasa Pura I; PT Angkasa Pura II; Otorita Batam and private parties.
Coordination is an important matter, said Adri, bearing in mind plane movement flow in the future.
Currently there are 52 domestic and 52 international flight routes crossing Indonesia's air territories.
Adri said the single provider has been recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). “In any country, (the provider) is single. Only us, not yet,” he said.
According to him, the apt agency to accommodate single air traffic is a state-owned enterprise. The reason is to simplify bureaucracy. In the meantime, the formation of a public service agency, which was recommended by the Transportation Department, is regarded as causing service quality to decrease. This is because a public service agency will unite the functions of regulator, auditor and operator under one institution.
The Transportation Department has already planned to unite the air traffic service.
Deputy Chairperson of the Transportation Commission, Hardisusilo said that the single provider matter will be included in the inventory. “It depends on factions, their attitude,” he said.
Harun Mahbub
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