Bali Airport`s Security Tightened Over ISIS

Kuta (Antara Bali) - Indonesia`s Bali airport is tightening its security following the government`s decision to step up security levels at all airports as a precaution against the ISIS.

"Now, security is being increased following an instruction from the central government that has decided to raise the alert status from green to yellow," the co-general manager of PT Angkasa Pura I that operates the airport, I Gusti Ngurah Ardita, said here Saturday.

Met at the integrated security command post of the airport, he said coordination and synergy with other security agencies had been increased.

The joint forces that have been assigned to the security at the airport include forces from the bomb defusing unit of the Mobile Brigade of the Bali Regional Police Command, the air force, the airport police command, and the airport security personnel, apart from the "Pecalang" (Balinese traditional security personnel).

"We have increased monitoring and surveillance along with the police, the TNI (military), and Pecalang, as well as our own security personnel," he said.

The joint security forces would regularly patrol the airport as well as areas around the airport, Ardita said.

Patrol activities, however, would not be carried out overly depending upon the situation and condition to assure humane service to visitors and passengers at the airport, he said.

Besides optimizing cooperation between security personnel, security equipment at the airport has also been revamped.

There are more than 500 CCTV cameras planted around the airport and the number would be increased next year, he explained.

Security has been stepped up at airports across Indonesia following ISIS attacks in Paris, France, recently.

Terrorist threats have been received by a number of countries as well as airline companies across the world, and therefore the Indonesian government has raised the alert level, he said. (WDY)