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New Yogyakarta airport still lacks tsunami mitigation plan

Bambang Muryanto (The Jakarta Post)
Yogyakarta
Thu, August 31, 2017

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New Yogyakarta airport still lacks tsunami mitigation plan Progress: An excavator clears land for the development of a new airport in Kulonprogo regency, Yogyakarta. (JP/Bambang Muryanto)

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tate-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura I (AP I) has not yet developed a plan for infrastructure to reduce the danger of tsunamis as part of its construction of the new Yogyakarta airport, which is located near the coast in Kulonprogo regency.

During a visit of representatives from the Coordinating Maritime Affairs Ministry and the Cabinet, AP I field officers could not show the location for the creation of sand banks and the planting of Australian pine trees or she-oaks to reduce the impacts of a tsunami.

“We will ensure that the new airport will be developed in one package with its disaster mitigation system,” said the ministry’s deputy minister for infrastructure coordination, Rahman Hidayat, on Wednesday.

(Read also: Airport construction continues despite lack of environmental permit)

AP I airport-planning head Yudhaparana Sugarda admitted that the company did not yet have a detailed plan on tsunami mitigation for the airport, which covers 600 hectares and is targeted for completion in March 2019.

He said AP I would develop the tsunami mitigation system based on input it had received during a workshop on infrastructure support for national strategic projects in Yogyakarta held by the Coordinating Maritime Affairs Ministry on Tuesday.

“We will develop it based on this workshop,” said Yudhaparana.

At the workshop, earthquake and tsunami experts from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology warned that the location of the new airport, which is only 200 meters from the coast, was prone to tsunamis. (ebf)

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