The Jakarta Post, 20 Sep 2011The Communications and Information Ministry, through the Batam office of the Satellite Orbit and Radio Frequency Monitoring Agency (Balmon), has banned 10 licensed private radio stations in Batam, Riau Islands, for impacting on flight safety at Changi Airport in Singapore and Hang Nadim Airport in Batam.
Two-hundred people have subsequently lost their jobs.
Agency head Muhammad Sopingi told The Jakarta Post on Monday that the ministry’s Directorate General of Post and Telecommunications had received letters of complaint from the Singapore and Hang Nadim Airport flight authorities in June about a radio communication interruption between pilots and air traffic controllers (ATC) due to the frequency synchronization problems caused by the radio stations in Batam. Full story
