{"id":1669,"date":"2019-01-16T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2024-01-31T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:54:06","slug":"indonesia-is-intercepting-aircraft-outside-their-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/indonesia-is-intercepting-aircraft-outside-their-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia is intercepting aircraft – outside their airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are operating in the Singapore FIR, consider this carefully: you may be overflying Indonesia\u00a0<\/strong>without knowing it. Indonesia will know though, and they want you to have an overflight permit.<\/p>\n

You will find out in one of three ways<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  1. You’ll be intercepted by\u00a0two Indonesian Air Force fighter jets and brought to Indonesia<\/li>\n
  2. You’ll receive a nastygram via your National Authority<\/li>\n
  3. You’ll get a fine<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2. and 3. are not cool, but 1. is something to avoid at all costs. The inside of military\/police cells at outlying Indonesian Airports is not pretty.<\/p>\n

    Watch out for the following airways – M758, M646, M767, G334, M761, G580<\/strong>. These all pass over Indonesian territory, even though the area is actually part of the Singapore and Malaysia FIRs.<\/p>\n

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    Indonesia has a reputation for excessively strict enforcement of permit rules.<\/p>\n

    On 14 Jan 2019, two Indonesian F-16s intercepted an Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight ETH3728<\/span><\/a> for flying across Indonesian airspace without permission. The aircraft was initially supposed to operate from HAAB\/Addis Ababa to VHHH\/Hong Kong, but was modified at the last minute to route via WSSS\/Singapore instead, to make a delivery of\u00a0Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.<\/p>\n

    The Ethiopian Airlines aircraft was intercepted forced to land at WIDD\/Batam Island – which lies right in the middle of the chunk of airspace controlled by Singapore.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    Another incident happened back in 2014, where a King Air plane en-route from WBGG\/Kuching to WSSS\/Singapore was intercepted by Indonesian fighter jets<\/a> in the same airspace managed by Singapore, and forced to land at WIOO\/Pontianak Airport in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    The reason? Because they were overflying some Indonesian islands out in the ocean, the Indonesian Air Force claimed they were overflying Indonesia\u2019s sovereign skies – without a permit.<\/p>\n

    Indonesia still hasn’t\u00a0updated its AIP, but the rules they enforce are clear: if you\u2019re overflying any Indonesian territory, you must get an overflight permit, regardless of the flight level.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Here’s a nastygram to an OPSGROUP member, received in February 2017:<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Bottom line: check your airways carefully, and make sure there are no Indonesian Island underneath. If there are, get a permit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you are operating in the Singapore FIR, consider this carefully: you may be overflying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[45,184],"class_list":{"0":"post-1669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-report","8":"tag-indonesia","9":"tag-singapore"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24503,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/24503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}