Multa Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Tangerang | Mon, 05/24/2010 6:08 PM
Authorities at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport urged the government Monday to pay attention and lend hands in integrated attempts to overcome growing social problems at the country’s international gate.
“We will never give up but we frankly admit that we can never handle social problems at the airport without the assistance from the government,” Haryanto, airport general executive manager said Monday.
He cited a number of the growing but unsolved social problems facing the airport authority such as the operation of illegal porters, street vendors, shoe polishers, beggars and scavengers not to mention other problems that worsen the airport’s image such as ticket scalpers and illegal taxis.
“The problems we are facing are very complicated and therefore we can never manage them alone,” he said.
According to Haryanto, in response to numerous complaints from the public, airport operator PT Angkasa Pura began improving cleanliness and comforts at the terminals in 2007.
“Since 2009, there has not been more complaints on dirty toilets and terminals and this year we began focusing on the improvement of passengers’ security and safety by applying screening check point (SCP) against all passengers at the terminals,” he said.
Haryanto admitted that upholding orderliness at the airport is the only problem that the airport operator could not handle alone because the root of the matter is social problems that need the government’s intervention.
Meanwhile, Roch Agus, security chief for vital objects and perimeter at the airport, mentioned that airport security officers managed to net 19,391 violators of public order at the airport in 2009.
The violators included 7,829 street vendors, 407 illegal porters, 1,392 shoe polishers, 1,663 ticket scalpers, 1,177 drivers of cars whose tires were locked, 6,169 illegal taxis, 227 scavengers, 15 mobile phone voucher sellers and 17 illegal migrant worker scalpers.
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