History
At least as early as 1938, Palembang was served by a civil airport at Talang Betutu, operating as a Customs Aerodrome equipped with wireless and direction finding equipment, and basic ground facilities. The airport was re-built by the Japanese army during the Japanese occupation between 1942-1943. On July 15, 1963, the airport is a joint airfield, for both civilian and military purposes. Then on August 21, 1975 the status of this airport became Talang Betutu Civil Airports. On April 3, 1985, the airport changed its name to Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport.
Effective 1 April 1991, the airport officially managed by the Management of Perum Angkasa Pura II. On January 2, 1992 Management Perum Angkasa Pura II changed its status into PT (Persero) Angkasa Pura II.
At the time of South Sumatra Province was chosen as the host of PON XVI in 2004, the government seeks to enlarge the capacity of the airport as well as change the status of this airport into an international airport. New terminal building Airport Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II finally completed and inaugurated on September 27, 2005.
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“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)