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About 300 employees of Merpati Nusantara Airlines staged a rally outside the State Enterprises Ministry on Tuesday demanding the payment of pending eight-month salary to 1,400 employees of the cash-strapped carrier.
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Cash-strapped carrier, Merpati Nusantara Airlines will soon submit a proposal to the commercial court for deferred repayment of its debts totaling Rp2 trillion to around 100 private and individual creditors.
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NusaBali reports that the director-general of civil aviation from the Ministry of Transportation is warning that unless steps are urgently taken to rescue the State-owned airline Merpati Nusantara, the company will fade into oblivion of its own accord.
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A Merpati Nusantara Air Service plane failed to land at Frans Seda Airport in Maumere, returning instead to El Tari Airport in Kupang (both in East Nusa Tenggara Province) on Monday, due to bad weather.
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Police have named the Ngada District Head Marianus Sae as suspect in the blocking of Turelelo airport in the district on December 21. Based on questionings, the police suspected the Ngada district head of violating Article 421 of the 2009 Aviation Law by ordering other people to commit a criminal offense, he noted.
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The district head of Ngada, East Nusa Tenggara, decided to bar state-controlled airline Merpati Nusantara from landing at Turelelo Soa airport on Saturday after he was refused a ticket on a Merpati flight that was already fully booked.
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PT Angkasa Pura I has revealed that the debt owed to them for airport charges by PT Merpati Nusantara Airline has reached Rp. 38.4 billion (US$3,84 million.) According to Bisnis.com, the head of corporate administration for PT Angkasa Pura I, Harry Budi Waluyo, said that state-owned Merpati also has debts for aeronautic services due to a number of airports managed by Angkasa Pura I and Angkasa Pura II.
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The House of Representatives` Ethics Council said several state-owned company directors had confirmed some lawmakers had asked for fees in connection with the disbursement of state capital injected in their companies.
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Member of the House of Representatives` (DPR) Commission XI Sumaryoto has denied that he has extorted state-owned PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines.
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The newly installed president director of the troubled State airline Merpati Nusantara is complaining openly of “rampant corruption” permeating the state-owned carrier.
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Former minister for state-owned enterprises Sofyan Djalil was questioned as a de charge witness on Monday in an alleged plane-hire corruption case. Spokesman of the Attorney General`s Office Adi Toegarisman said Sofyan was questioned by AGO investigators as a mitigating witness for Hotasi Nababan.
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Indonesian airliner Merpati Nusantara has opened a number of new routes. With these new routes, the airline is to compete more directly with fast-growing Lion Air which operate many flights to smaller destinations with their daugher-company Wings Air.
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Indonesia AirAsia was dubbed the worst airline in the country for flight cancellation in the first semester of 2011, with 471 flights canceled during the period, the government said Tuesday.
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Despite disruption to its flight schedules operating to other destinations, Merpati Nusantara (MZ) flights to and from Bali operated without interruption on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
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Bisnis Indonesia reveals that the Indonesian Department of Civil Aviation has published on-time performance figures for Indonesian air carriers with Batavia Air and Lion Air earning "red card" results for managing to fly on schedule less than 70% of the time.
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Figures from ticketindonesia.info show that the airline with the most canceled flights in their name is Merpati Nusantara. This Indonesian state-owned company, also partially owned by Garuda Indonesia, seems to have a peculiar way of conducting business; selling tickets, canceling flights and then wait for months to pay back the money paid for tickets on those canceled flight. At least it seems that way.
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PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines is optimistic that they will carry 3.3 million passengers in 2011, an increase of 10% over the total carried in 2010. The commercial manager of Merpati, Tonny A. Achmad, said the higher target is being driven by the commencement of service over a number of new domestic routes flown by the airline.
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Indonesian state-owned airliner Merpati Nusantara is in need of a cash injection from the Indonesian government of Rp. 560 billion, some 46.2 million euro.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday demanded the cabinet answers on the Merpati airplane crash that killed 27 people.
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A search team on Sunday afternoon recovered the black box from a Merpati Nusantara Airlines passenger plane which crashed in the sea off Indonesia's West Papua province on Saturday, officials said. All 27 people on board were killed.
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The Indonesian airline Lion Air is currently working hard to expand it's already large network. During the month of May, four new routes will be opened while 18 existing routes will see their frequencies increased from today's levels. Expansion of their network can be noticed throughout the country.
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A Merpati Nusantara Airlines passenger plane carrying 27 people crashed off Indonesia's West Papua province on Saturday, officials said, killing everyone on board.
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The Indonesian government has appointed Merpati Nusantara Airlines and Batavia Air to serves the international air segment between Bali and Dili, East Timor. A total of 14 flights per week will ply the route with Merpati flying a daily service using a Boeing 737-300 carrying 138 passengers.
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Merpati Nusantara Flight 6601 scheduled to fly from Mataram to Denpasar on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, failed to take off when passengers took matters into their own hands and abandoned the aircraft on the runway, prior to take-off at Selaparang Airport.
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Lion Air has opened four new routes in northern Sumatra. These routes will all be flown with new ATR 72-500 planes and will all depart from Polonia airport near Medan in North Sumatra. The routes are mainly targeted at Mentawai and Aceh.
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A routine domestic flight almost ended in disaster on Tuesday when a jet carrying more than 100 passengers broke apart on landing in Indonesia, injuring about 20 people, officials said. The Merpati airline Boeing 737 bounced off the tarmac at Rendani domestic airport in Manokwari, West Papua.
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Merpati Nusantara Airlines will soon increase the frequency of their flights between Bali and Dili, Timor Leste in anticipation of heightened competition on that route from another domestic carrier - Batavia Airline.
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A Boeing 737-300 plane, belonging to Merpati Nusantara airline, saw it's tire burst when the plane touched down at the Sultan Hasanuddin airport of Makassar in South Sulawesi earlier this morning. No people were injured, but because the plane stopped on the landing strip, two other flights were eventually delayed to later on the day.
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A Fokker 100 plane belonging to Merpati Nusantara with flight number MZ 5840 has made an emergency landing on the El Tari airport of Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara province. The plane made the landing last night. After the landing a number of passengers was in shock and a few had passed out.
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Members of a search and rescue team that have been searching for the passengers of the Twin Otter belonging to state-run Merpati Nusantara have eventually found the bodies of all 15 people aboard. Earlier it was assumed that there were 16 passengers and crew aboard. The president director of Merpati, Bambang Bhakti, said that a search and rescue team and local residents had reached the crash-site on a slope of Bintang mountain, at an altitude of 2.850 meters.
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The Merpati Nusantara Twin Otter plane that went missing in the Papua region of Indonesia has been localized. The plane has been found in the Ampisibil area in the district of Pegunungan Bintang. The plane went missing two days ago. Commander of the Search and Rescue team in Jayapura, Suandi Miharja, said that the plane was found at 06:30 local time by pilot Erik Doglas when he was looking for the plane from the sky.
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A small plane with 16 people on board went missing in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua on Sunday, the state Antara news agency reported. The Twin Otter plane, belonging to the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airline, was travelling from Sentani airport in the provincial capital of Jayapura, to Bintang district's Oksibit airport, Antara said.
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Where it used to be falling planes that scared Indonesians, Indonesian skies are much safer these days. Yesterday afternoon a plane belonging to Merpati Nusantara with flight number MZ 761 on the route Jayapura - Biak - Makassar - Jakarta only lost one tire when departing from Biak Airport in the province of Papua. One of the left wheels of the plane which was flown by pilot Haryogi and co-pilot Eko Laksono, fell off shortly after taking of for Makassar.
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The Lebaran Holiday period, which stretches for more than two weeks in the periods prior and post the Idul Fitri celebrations on October 1-2, 2008, will be the busiest travel period of the entire year in Bali and the rest of Indonesia.
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The Indonesian government has decided to increase the working capital for PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines with some 300 billion Rupiah (22 million euro). The funds will be used for lay-off premiums for 1.300 employees and to upgrade the 19 planes that are owned by the company. This decision was made during a cabinet meeting that was chaired by president Yudhoyono.
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As reported in Kompas, the latest review of national airline safety issued by the Governments has determined not to increase the actual safety category rating of any national airline, despite an admission that actual scores have improved a number of air carriers.
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PT Angkasa Pura II, the operator for Soekarno-Hatta international airport is ready to divert flights from the airport to the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in eastern Jakarta. This was announced by General Manager Edie Haryoto at the time the preparations were still ongoing earlier on Sunday. The airport will be used as an alternative for the time being because of floods at and around the Soekarno-Hatta international airport.
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The government is planning to add several more state-owned companies, BUMN, SOEs) to the program for privatization this year in a bid to raise more cash to fill up the budget deficit, according to an official. "We will identify the SOEs that are ready to go public this year while taking a look at the market conditions," said State Minister for State Enterprises Sofyan Djalil. "If it is feasible, we'll ask for more divestment approvals from the House of Representatives."
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As an immense search for Indonesia's missing passenger plane intensified on Sunday, records show that a string of aircraft have never been found in the archipelago nation after disappearing. The Adam Air plane with 102 passengers and crew vanished off radar screens on January 1, halfway through a flight from Surabaya on Java island to Manado on the northeast tip of Sulawesi island.
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State-owned airline PT Merpati Nusantara is in talks with Deutsche Bank AG for a 450 bln rupiah bridging loan to refinance debts, Bisnis Indonesia reported quoting an official at the Office of the State Minister for State Enterprises. 'Merpati is negotiating the terms of the loan with Deutsche Bank,' Bisnis quoted Deputy State Minister for State Enterprises for logistic and tourism Harry Susetyo as saying. He said the government is considering listing Merpati to repay the loan.
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Four airlines -- Mandala Airlines, Pelita Air Service, Bouraq Airlines, and Dirgantara Air Service -- will form an alliance next month to cope with mounting domestic competition, a senior airline executive said. Head of Mandala's development division Kus Winarko said on Wednesday that the alliance was the only way the airlines could provide new destinations without adding more planes.
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