This airport, in north Bali, is intended to ease congestion at the existing Gusti Ngurah Rai airport.
About 15.5 million visitors flocked to Bali in 2023, close to its level in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic years.JAKARTA – Indonesia’s resort island of Bali is set to have a second international airport, with the long-delayed project now being revived under the new administration of President Prabowo Subianto.
Former tourism minister Sandiaga Uno said on Oct 18 that Bali needs a second airport in the north to facilitate traffic to the less-visited tourist spots there. He said the airport project, which was first mooted in 2016, did not take off during Mr Joko Widodo’s term as president because it did not get enough political support.
But the project did not go ahead due to opposition from Ms Megawati Soekarnoputri, chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle , which was the ruling party then. It is not known if the same parties will be involved in the second airport project and when it will be completed. Newly appointed Tourism Minister Widiyanti Putri Wardhana and the Transport Ministry’s head of communication and public information, Mr Budi Rahardjo, did not respond to queries from ST.
In January 2023, Ms Megawati had said she opposed the new airport in north Bali because it would benefit only investors, but not the Balinese people. She also said that Ngurah Rai could still be expanded and that the nearest other airport in Banyuwangi, East Java, could also serve incoming tourists to Bali.“The passenger traffic of the airport in the south has stretched airport resources to their maximum...
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