REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LEBAK -- The district administration of Lebak, Banten, preparing a piece of 2,000 hectares of land on which it hopes to build a new airport.

The Lion Group has indicated interest in building the project in the border area of sub-districts of Curugbitung and Maja, Hari Setiono, head of the district integrated licensing services, said here on Friday (14/11).

Hari said the agency would facilitate the licensing procedure for the investor to build the international airport that is expected to contribute to the district economic development.

Lion Group is the operator of the country's largest airline Lion Air.

"We hope the Lion Group could start construction of the airport as soon as possible," Hari said.

He said development of the airport would create a new Jakarta's satellite city as there would be a residential area.

The satellite city would accommodate 1.5 million people from Jakarta, he said.

Currently investors are planning to build residential houses, trading and service centers around the location where the airport would be built.

"We hope all conditions needed to build the airport could be met that work could start next year," Hari said.

Meanwhile, Lion Group chief executive office Rusdi Kirana said the airport would have four runways including one for the giant aircraft type of Airbus A380.

It will have railway access to link it with Lebak and Jakarta's Tanah Abang wholesales center, Hari said.

"The Lebak airport would have the capacity to accommodate 50 million passengers a year with direct flight to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, from which to the United States and Europe," he said.

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