Jembrana City International Airport
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Jembrana City International Airport (also known as New Bali International Airport), is an airport that proposed to change the unexpandable Ngurah Rai International Airport.[1]
The project is estimated to cost US$110 million.
"As long as there is no goodwill from the provincial government, then efforts to develop Bali will never come to fruition," I Gede Winasa, Jembrana regent said. The proposed airport would take some of the strain off the island's only existing international airport, Ngurah Rai in southern Tuban, he said. Ngurah Rai airport, just 13 kilometers from the island's capital Denpasar, is currently in the midst of a multimillion-dollar, large-scale expansion plan, which includes bigger international and domestic terminals to handle rising numbers of passengers, as well as possibly extending its sole runway.[2]
However, Winasa said it was not possible to expand Ngurah Rai International Airport much more, as it was fenced in by beaches that are protected. "From an environmental perspective, the expansion of Ngurah Rai airport is no longer possible, because the beaches surrounding it are protected from erosion." Jembrana, in the west of the island, was a more suitable location for a busy international airport, said Winasa.
"Jembrana is a good alternative because it accommodates all the requirements for an international airport," he said. The plans call for the airport to be built on 600 hectares of land in the Pekutatan plantation area; it would have a 3,600-meter-long runway, far more than Ngurah Rai’s current 3,000 meters, though there are plans underway, however controversial, to extend it a further 600 meters, into mangrove swamp areas that would be reclaimed.
A toll road would be built to link the proposed Jembrana airport to the rest of the island, most notably key southern tourism areas. "Ngurah Rai airport is not capable of serving most tourism agencies from Europe, which often use big airplanes. They are unable to get direct access to Bali, especially when there are no airlines flying from Bali to Europe," he said.
He said that if the President agreed with the plan, the central government would put the plan into its 2008 development program. "Then the House of Representatives will discuss the plan with the president. If an agreement is reached, the project will be started in 2009," he said. One local industry analyst, Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours, said either an overhaul of the existing airport was required, or that a new airport be built.
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