Bali Airport rated Indonesia’s Best in Security and Safety

Jun 19th 2007

The Department of Transportation has audited Indonesia’s 5 largest international airports, namely those of Jakarta, Bali, Surabaya, Medan and Makassar, and has rated Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport the top in Security and Safety, and Services, complying 89% to requirements with 11% non-compliant points, wrote detik.com

Second comes Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta airport with 87% compliant and 13% non-compliant points. Third is Surabaya’s Juanda Airport with 78% compliance and 22% non-compliance. Fourth is Medan’s Polonia Airport with 74% compliance and 26% non-compliance, and last comes Makassar’s Hasanuddin Airport, with 68% compliance and 30% non-compliant points.

However, Surabaya’s Juanda airport is rated best in services among the five audited.

The Department of Transportation plans to hold periodical audits, ordering airports to improve and make necessary corrections within three months to such points where these fail in compliance rating.  Audit on other airports will follow suit. Meanwhile, the public and operators are urged to submit official complaints to further improve safety, security and service standards of Indonesia’s airports, due to the fact that the public as well as airlines pay airport taxes and service fees.