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ec. 17, p3

The government has bowed to pressure from nationalistic quarters by scrapping its plan to allow foreigners to become majority or controlling shareholders in airport management, in the much-anticipated revised
negative investments'€™ list (DNI).

Your comments:

The state-owned airport operator may privatize some of its stock. Why not go public and raise more money to build more airports through the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and then recruit world-class professionals to operate the airports?

D Van Man

As the country'€™s points of entry, airports and seaports managed by foreign companies will always invite scrutiny in the name of national security, at least that'€™s what the US said after 9/11.

FMN
 

If it can be done better by foreigners, then why not?

Clin Anderson