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About Nop Goliat Dekai Airport

Nop Goliat Dekai Airport (IATA: DEX, ICAO: WAVD) is an airport serving the town of Dekai, the capital of Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. Nop Goliat Airport is one of the seven pioneer airports that connects 517 villages in Yahukimo. The airport was built on an area of 230 hectares between 2004–2010 by using a budget of Rp321 billion. The airport was built to be a logistics distribution center in the highland region of Papua, as well as supporting the mobility of people and goods. Construction of airports is intended as a logistics distribution center for central highland region of Papua Province, which previously concentrated through Wamena Airport.

After extensive delays, the airport was finally inaugurated by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on 18 October 2016. Jokowi personally wants this airport to be developed and requested Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi to extend the runway from 1,950 m to 2,500 meters over the next 2 years. The Ministry of Transportation has allocated Rp350 billion ($26.8 million) for the expansion, so the expansion runway can serve Boeing 737-200 and Boeing 737-300. It was predicted that the expansion would be finished in 2017.

Currently, Nop Goliat airport's runway is 1.950 m × 30 m, with two exit taxiways measuring 75 m × 23 m each, an apron measuring 320 m × 60 m as well as other supporting facilities.

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