The government estimates that Indonesia needs 4,000 pilots from 2011 to 2015 but local schools can only supply 1,600 pilots.
“The country schools can only produce around 320 pilots a year [or 1,600 in five years],” Bobby R Mamahit, head of human resources development at the Transportation Ministry, said as quoted by kontan.co.id on Wednesday.
“We need more pilots to meet the demand.”
He said the demand for pilot rose as Law No 1/2009 on Flight obliged that each airline has to operate a minimum of 10 airplanes as of Jan. 12, 2012.
Bobby added that the government would establish new pilot schools in Palembang and Surabaya.
From 2011 to 2015, Indonesia also needed 7,500 airplane technicians and 1,000 air traffic controllers.
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