Cibebek International Airport

Cibebek International Airport is the 2nd largest airport in Karasem which currently served 38,820,149 passengers per year. In the future, this airport will be replaced with the upcoming Kota Baru International.

Location
Cibebek International Airport located in the Ciluar Subdistrict, Kota Baru, Province Cibebek. It located 42Km from the central of the Cibebek and 27 Km from the central of Kota Baru. It can be accessed 30 minutes from Kota Baru and 1 hour from Cibebek.

History
Cibebek International Airport was built in a plot of land in the outer south of Cibebek on 1961. It's planned to be finished in 1964 but it's delayed until 1969 because of Karasem mass riot in 1964. In the beginning, it's served about 1,870,392 passengers per year and is the domestic municipal airport. In the 1975, Department of Transportation (now Minister of Transportation) expand the Airport capacity into 12,100,500 passengers per year as the grow of the Cibebek. The project is planned in 1975 and finished in 1977. It took Rk 7,200,839,500,925 to expand the airport. in this phase, the airport has longer runway (the current runway 1) and larger concourse. After Karasem's capital city movements, the airport need to expand more and need to be international. This 3rd project started in 1988 and finished in 1994. Took Rk 19,000,500,750,000 to expand the airport into international airport. in this phase, the airport now has 2 runway, 2 terminal and some more concourse. This airport also becoming the hub of some local airlines like Air Karasem, Alaqadar Airways, and Elang Karasem Airlines. It can now served 40,500,150 passengers per year. On 2009, the airport's airborne started to be covered by the development of Kota Baru especially with some highrise building in the central of Kota Baru. After a long discussion, the Minister of Transportation with coordination of Persero Angkatan Udara dan Bandara Karasem, decided to built a new International airport that has bigger capacity.

New Airport Plan
On 2009, the Minister of Transportation decided to built a new airport in order to served more passengers and replace Cibebek international Airport. It'll be located in the Petamburan Subdistrict, South Cibebek District, Cibebek Province. it's located about 50 Km away from this airport. This airport project just started in 2011 and planned to be finished in 2016. It will handles 85,000,000 passengers per year and will became Karasem's largest airport. This projects take Rk 108,840,350,000,000 to finished come from the 2010-2015 national fund (75%), the local investor (15%) and foreign investor (10%). The new airport will have 4 runways, 3 terminal and 70 gates. It use 21.89 Hectare land and take over Rk 51,290,500,000 to buy from the local citizens. Currently, the project has finished 18.7% which only part of foundation that has been finished. Some part of airport area haven't been cleared from local residential area.

Ground Access
Cibebek International Airport has a main access in the norththat's Airport Highway from the Cibebek. It's extend 4 Km from the intersection with Cibebek outer ringroad Highway to the Airport entrance. This highway has 2 lanes in each direction and have price Rk 2,000 in each travel. For the motorbike, the access is from the Jl Raya Ciluar. it also the access for some public transportation like city bus to get into the airport. In 2001, the government of Cibebek Province, built a new access road from Kota Baru directly to the airport. it uses the Jl Kota Baru utara to access this new road. This 15 Km road has 2 concrete lanes in each direction. The travelers can access the entrance from Kota Baru for 30 minutes using this road instead of using highways.