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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono officially inaugurated on Thursday the Kuala Namu International Airport in Deli Serdang regency, near Medan, North Sumatra. It was a significant moment for Yudhoyono, as he approaches the end of his two terms as the country'€™s sixth president.

The plush Kuala Namu airport, offering the most sophisticated passenger terminal in the country, is one of several successful infrastructure projects built during Yudhoyono'€™s era.

During the inauguration ceremony, Yudhoyono said the airport marked an important milestone toward a more prosperous North Sumatra in particular and Indonesia in general.

Your comments:

Kuala Namu right now is the most modern airport in the country, but several years from now it might just be an ordinary one.

Madra Shulu

I'€™ve been there several times and it failed to live up to the hype.

There were baggage trolleys everywhere and it took around an hour to check in.

There weren'€™t enough chairs in the waiting area '€” I had to sit on the floor, as did others.

Even if the airport is modern, it will be useless without proper management.

Yaa Patee

Medan has an airport to be proud of. Well done! I hope our international airport learns from Changi Airport, which is by far the only airport in the world where one can deplane, clear immigration and collect luggage in less than 10 minutes. That is efficiency at its best.

Gyrotonic

It seems that there is also major construction going on near Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

I asked a taxi driver about the construction and he said that there would be a new modern terminal and a rail service to the capital.

Moon River