I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport VVIP Terminal Ready to Receive G20 Summit Guests

JAKARTADAILY.ID – The Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Housing has been hard at work renovating and preparing the I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali in order to receive G20 delegates this November. 

Indonesia currently holds the G20 Presidency and is continuing to improve infrastructures in Bali, including building a VVIP terminal at the airport.

"Bali, which will be the center of the location for the G20 Summit with the theme Recover Together, Recover Stronger, will be made more environmentally friendly through activities to improve regional infrastructure supported by massive reforestation," said PUPR Minister Basuki Hadimuljono in a press release on Thursday, September 29, 2022.

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The construction of the VVIP terminal at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport is carried out on an area of ​​5,670 square meters of PT Angkasa Pura I. Now, the construction process will soon be over and the physical progress has reached 99.96 percent.

The Director of Building Arrangements of the Directorate General of Human Settlements, Boby Ali Azhari, ensures that all work will be completed by the end of September 2022.

"Currently, we only have to finish the final stage of the interior," said Boby.

The construction work of the Ngurah Rai Airport VVIP terminal has been carried out by contractor PT Wijaya Karya and supervision consultant PT Virama Karya since March 14, 2022, with a budget of Rp 50.9 billion.

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The scope of work consists of the VVIP building, guard post building, ground water tank building, and pump room, fence and gate, landscape arrangement, drop-off area, pick-up area, and relocation of Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) installations.

The VVIP terminal building at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport has an area of ​​1,713 square meters and is designed to be wider than the existing building.

With a design concept that combines colonial architecture and ornaments of Balinese artwork and architectural designs.

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This concept is combined with Balinese artworks that adorn the interior of the building, such as kamasan paintings and astalla padma bhuana carvings on the main ceiling, northern Balinese carvings, and the Ambara Raja Lion at the north entrance (Gumendung).