Soekarno-Hatta to add 110 air traffic controllers in 2012

State airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II has announced plans to recruit up to 110 new air traffic controllers in 2012 to balance an increasing number of passengers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten — Indonesia's main international gateway.

“We added 31 air traffic controllers in 2011,” Angkasa Pura II president director Tri Sunoko said Monday as quoted by kompas.com.

He added that 57 of the new personnel would be taken from the state-run Indonesian Aviation School (STPI), 25 from Surabaya Aviation Engineering and Safety Academy and 28 from Medan Aviation Engineering and Safety Academy.

Tri said that in 2013, the company would also recruit 28 more air traffic controllers from these academies.

Angkasa Pura II operation and technical director Salahudin Rafi, meanwhile, said that at present the company had a total of 300 air traffic controllers.

Over the next three years it will recruit a total of 169 new controllers, Salahudin said.

Tri added that each of the employed controllers had already gained a licence and ratings, including on radar and non-radar techniques.