REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesia needs 4,000 pilots, 7,500 technicians, and 1,000 air traffic controllers to be ready for ASEAN Open Sky 2015 and ASEAN Single Aviation Market (ASAM) 2020. Chairman of the Indonesian National Air Carriers Association (INACA) Emirsyah Satar said that at the first Indonesian Aviation Training and Education Conference (IATEC) on Wednesday.

"The existing aviation schools in Indonesia cannot meet the increasing demands in this sector," Satar said.

With a population of 240 million, Indonesia has only 13 aviation schools, compared with 1,076 schools in the US and 369 in the European Union.

Meanwhile, the conference, which is being organized by INACA in cooperation with the transportation ministry and the Australia-based Aviation Conference Group (ACG), on June 27-28, at Sultan Hotel, central Jakarta, will discuss aviation training programs to meet Indonesia`s needs.

The IATEC speakers include Sherry Carnary, the vice president of Boeing`s Commercial Flight Services; Robert Barnes, the president of the International Association of Flight Training Professionals (AFTP); and Graham JF Hunt, the chairman of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University -Asia.

INACA is a group of 38 airline companies, consisting of 16 commercial plane companies, and 22 charter plane companies. By the end of 2011, there were 707 aircraft operating in Indonesia - 434 commercial, 259 chartered and 14 cargo planes. 

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