Mudik Lebaran, 5 Bandara Dapat Pengamanan Khusus
Eid Homecoming, 5 Airports Get Special Security
Reporter : Roni Said
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - Menteri Perhubungan EE Mangindaan mengatakan sebanyak lima bandara internasional mendapatkan pengamanan khusus selama musim mudik dan balik Lebaran 2013.
Kelima bandara tersebut yakni Bandara Soekarno-Hatta di Tangerang, Bandara Kualanamu di Medan, Bandara Ngurah Rai di Bali, Bandara Hasanudin di Makasar, Bandara Juanda di Surabaya, kata Menhub usai meninjau kesiapan angkutan lebaran di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta, Kamis.
"Kelima bandara tersebut bersakala besar dan akan mendapatkan pengamanan dan penambahan petugas," katanya.
Meski demikian, pengamanan di bandara lain tetap menjadi prioritas karena melayani angkutan lebaran bagi para pemudik.
Untuk kelima bandara tersebut, lanjut Menteri, petugas yang akan disiagakan lebih banyak dibandingkan biasanya karena ada lonjakan penumpang yang sangat drastis.
Kemudian, untuk pengamanan pun akan mendapatkan perhatian khusus. Jajaran petugas gabungan dari kepolisian, TNI dan keamanan bandara akan bersiaga selama 24 jam.
Pelayanan angkutan lebaran akan terjadi selama waktu 24 jam penuh, terutama mendekati puncak lebaran. "Semuanya harus siapkan," katanya.
Direktur Utama PT Angkasa Pura II, Tri S. Sunoko mengatakan, angkutan lebaran di bandara dipastikan telah siap melayani penumpang. Mulai dari kesiapan maskapai pesawat yang mengangkut penumpang hingga pelayanan dari petugas. "Semua perangkat sudah siap," ujarnya.
Jakarta (B2B) - Minister of Transportation EE Mangindaan said five international airports in the country would get special security in connection with Islamic post-fasting holiday of Lebaran.
The five airports to receive special security are Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta airport, Kualanamu in Medan, North Sumatra, Ngurah Rai in Bali, Hasanudin in Makassar, South Sulawesi, and Juanda in Surabaya, East Java, he said here on Thursday.
"These airports are big airports and so more security personnel would be stationed there," he said after inspecting the Soekarno-Hatta airport.
Millions of people in the country would conduct journeys to their home villages to celebrate the holiday with their friends, families or relatives to make airports, seaports, train stations or bus terminals very crowded days before and after the fall of the holiday on August 8.
The minister said security in other smaller airports however would also be given a priority in connection with the holiday.
He said more security personnel would be deployed to the facilities as the number of passengers would soar and an anticipatory measure against any eventuality.
He said personnel from the police force and the military and also from airport authorities would stand by for 24 hours especially ahead of the peak of Lebaran. "Preparations must be made well," he said.
The president director of airport operator company PT Angkasa Pura II, Tri S Sunoko, meanwhile assured that preparations had been made well. "It is all ready," he said.
