Tempo Interactive, Wednesday, 13 January, 2010 | 16:05 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Having previously refused to supply Avtur to Moses Kilangin Airport, Timika, Papua, yesterday the state-owned oil company Pertamina changed its mind.
“We are ready (to supply Avtur to Timika) if the government give us the order,” said Marketing and Trade Deputy Director Hanung Budya yesterday.
Therefore, Pertamina is ready to put behind the economic factor.
“The important thing is that the Avtur supply is fulfilled,” he said.According to Hanung, Avtur supply to Timika all this time comes from Pertamina, bought by Airfast Aviation Facilities Company (AVCO), a Freeport Indonesia subsidiary, which runs Moses Kilangin Airport.
Freeport Indonesia spokesperson, Mindo Pangaribuan, welcomed Pertamina’s plan to provide Avtur to Timika.
“Good,” he said yesterday.
He went on to say that Pertamina would have to provide the infrastructure relating to the Avtur supply.
He denied providing a more thorough explanation because he said it needed to be discussed with AVCO, the Timika regency government and Pertamina.
“It will be discussed later,” he said.Pertamina is now willing following the tension between Freeport and Garuda. In a letter dated January 3, 2010, Freeport prohibited Garuda to refuel in Timika Airport until further notice.
Previously, on 25 December 2009, Freeport sent a letter to Garuda and other airlines to inform them of limited Avtur supply in the run-up to the end of year holiday.
But Garuda spokesperson, Pujobroto, said he presumed that the ban was connected with the refusal of the airline to fly the Freeport President Director Armando Mahler from Jayapura to Timika.
His name was not on the GA 652 passengers list.
Garuda responded to Freeport letter on 4 January 2010 by saying that Garuda was halting its flight to Timika until there was assurance of fuel supply.
The Director General of Air Transport at the Transportation Department Herry Bhakti held a meeting with Freeport and Garuda on 7 January.
He asked Pertamina to supply Avtur in Timika and Garuda would then resume its flights to Timika.
SORTA TOBING I MARIA HASUGIAN
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