Indonesia’s New Presidential
Aircraft
Indonesia has decided
to buy
a presidential
aircraft typesBoeing 737-800 Business Jet 2 (BBJ2). The
plane was purchased
for 91.2 million U.S.
dollars or
about Rp 820 billion. The
aircraft is
planned to be arrive in
the country in August
2013.
The Government argued that if Indonesia has presidential aircraft will make Indonesian budget be more
efficient and decrease the budget for president’s trip
than if Indonesia’s President should rent commercial aircraft. And the
parlement also agree with this action so Indonesia has asssured to buy
the aircraft and Indonesia’s goverment has paid in full this aircraft. And the
goverment also say that this aircraft can be used in 35 years so this
presidential aircraft not only for Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cabinet abut also
for the next president and the cabinet.
But not all people
agree with this action, some people say that this action is only fool away the
national budget, because if president use presidential aircraft there isn’t
another adventages for Indonesia not like if president go to the foreign
country by commercial aircraft like Garuda Indonesia Airlines. If the president
go anywhere by comercial aircraft for example garuda
indonesia so automatically this action is promotion action to another country and
show that Indonesia has big airlines company and has good quality because this
company can quarantee the savety of the president.
But the goverment
and the parlement still want to buy the presidential
aircraft
because they has calculate the efficiency if Indonesia has this
aircraft. Total efficiency for
35 years is
estimated at 388.5 million U.S.
dollars.
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono about 8 yaers be the Indonesia’s president and during this time the
president if want to go to anywhere he should rent the special aircrfat to
garuda Indonesia, different with previous Indonesia’s President that has the
presidential aircraft exept Habibie era. For example President Soeharto has two
presidential aircraft that has different size and types and also has the
different function, the 1st is hercules that made in Indonesia (the
domestic product) and this plane is only for domestic trip and the 2nd
airplane is Airbus type and this plane for international trip. For Megawati era
Indonesia also has presidential aircraft but only has one airplane, the type is
boeing type.
And the goverment
say that now is the exact time to buy the newest presidential aircraft that has very good
quality and also has very comfortable facility for the Indonesia’s president
because now the econnomic growth of Indonesia is one of the best and the higest
econnomic growth in the world and the number of poor people in Indonesia is
deacreasing. And also with the presidential aircraft our president will be more
save if go to anywhere and the president can give the important instruction in
the emergency condition.
Figure 2 Interior Facilities presidential plane
that shown by some tv station
By : Javan Aristianto Pradana, 7311030036