Bali proposes offshore island for second airport
The long mooted second Bali airport in the north of the island could now be constructed offshore.
Planners have gone back to the drawing board after feasibility studies showed a new airport would mean bulldozing 33 Hindu temples, dozens of historic sites, homes and acres of fertile rice growing land.
That had been blocked by Bali governor Mangku Pastika.
After several years surveying numerous potential sites, the latest option is for an offshore island to house the airport.
"There are so many obstacles to developing an onshore airport therefore we prefer to develop offshore," said I Made Mangku, president director of developer PT BIBU.
The airport would be built to initially handle up to 32 million passengers annually with a 4,100 metre runway.
It is still unclear exactly where the location will be other than disclosing it would be off the coast of Buleleng regency which comprises most of the island’s northern coastline.
A North Bali airport has been mooted for many years as a way to disperse tourism away from crowded South Bali which includes all Bali’s major beach resorts Kuta, Seminyak, Jimbaran and Sanur.
Existing airport Ngurah Rai International Airport, situated near Kuta, handles about 20 million passengers a year.
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