Official flight status information is now available for some Indonesian airports.

Ever so slowly, Indonesian airports are joining the 21st century and offering online services, through official airport websites and Twitter feeds.

It was most useful earlier this year when a volcanic ash cloud closed several airports in Java.

This post is designed to help foreign visitors to Indonesia obtain the latest flight status information from the relevant airport.

Is this information accurate?

Not always, but it is better than nothing when Indonesian airline websites either don’t have this information, or it isn’t regularly updated. Where the airport websites have a serious problem, these are outlined below.

More generally, unofficial websites like Flight Stats don’t say whether most domestic flights have landed or not. It’s like Indonesian domestic airlines haven’t joined the Flight Stats system. On a lighter note, Flight Stats also sometimes includes flights by airlines that ceased operations a long time ago.

While airport Twitter feeds might seem useless if you don’t speak Indonesian, Twitter can change tweets to English. Alternately, here are a few words of Indonesian for passengers:

Departures Arrivals Delayed Cancelled Boarding

Keberangkatan Kedatangan Ditunda Tercancel Naik pesawat

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Links to sites for Mau Ke Mana clients’ most visited airports are listed from one to ten below, with comments regarding their usefulness or otherwise. Remaining airports appear in alphabetical order under “The rest”.

1. Bali | 2. Jakarta | 3. Lombok | 4. Labuan Bajo | 5. Surabaya
6. Yogyakarta | 7. Pangkalan Bun | 8. Makassar | 9. Manado | 10. Medan
The rest

1. BALI – NGURAH RAI AIRPORT (DPS)

Official: Unofficial:

At the time of writing, the departure/arrival information on the official website is blank and the last tweet was written in 2012.

2. JAKARTA – SOEKARNO-HATTA AIRPORT (CGK)

Official: Unofficial:

On the official website, the link to the flight information is in the bottom left corner. Information about delays do not appear, just whether the plane has landed.

3. LOMBOK – LOMBOK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (LOP)

Official: Unofficial:

You would expect a new airport like this to have a functional website, but at the time of writing, the flight information on the official website is not working. It also mentions flights by Merpati Airlines, which ceased operations in February.

4. LABUAN BAJO – KOMODO AIRPORT (KNO)

Unofficial:

Some TransNusa flights don’t operate 7 days/week. Flight Stats doesn’t distinguish which is which.

5. SURABAYA – JUANDA AIRPORT (SUB)

Official: Unofficial:

At the time of writing, only domestic flight information was available on the airport’s website; this may be related to flight information from the recently opened Terminal 2 not being included in the system. For international flights, it would be better to use the airline’s website or Flight Stats.

6. YOGYAKARTA – ADI SUCIPTO AIRPORT (JOG)

Official: Unofficial:

The last tweet was in January 2014.

7. PANGKALAN BUN – ISKANDAR AIRPORT (PKN)

Unofficial:

Kal-Star flights are missing from the Flight Stats page.

8. MAKASSAR – SULTAN HASANNUDDIN AIRPORT (UPG)

Official: Unofficial:

The last tweet was posted in August 2013.

9. MANADO – SAM RATULANGI AIRPORT (MDC)

Official: Unofficial:

At the time of writing, flight information table was blank. Last tweet was in May.

10. MEDAN – KUALA NAMU AIRPORT (KNO)

Official: Unofficial:

Indonesia’s newest airport, this is one of the few to have a suitably professional website. Unfortunately, there is no English version available.

THE REST

These are listed in alphabetical order. If an official website is available and the flight status information is accurate, there is a link to it; likewise, the Twitter feed. Please note: not all Indonesian airports have flight information available online.

A-K Ambon Balikpapan Banda Aceh Bandarlampung Bandung Banjarmasin Batam Bau Bau Bengkulu Berau (Tanjung Redep) Gorontalo Jakarta (Halim) Jambi Jayapura Kupang

L-Z Malang Padang Palangkaraya Palembang Palu Pangandaran – Not available Pangkal Pinang (Belitung) Pekanbaru Pontianak Semarang Solo Sorong Tanjung Pandan (Bintan) Tanjung Pinang (Bangka) Tarakan

If you’re unexpectedly stuck at the airport, you might need to book a hotel room. Some cities have hotels at/near the airport.

Or you could make the most of the extra time to visit some more tourist attractions. It would be a good idea to first check the weather forecast.

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Are we missing an airport or a useful website? Please advise with a comment below.