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Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport

international airport serving Kota Makassar, Indonesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1432006 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (IATA: UPG, ICAO: WAAA) is an international airport serving Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The airport is located on the border between Makassar and Maros, a suburb in South Sulawesi, approximately 20 km (12 mi) or 15 minutes from Makassar city center via the freeway/tollway, and about 23 km (14 mi) or 20 minutes via the highway. Named after Sultan Hasanuddin (1631–1670), the Sultan of Gowa and a national hero of Indonesia who resisted the Dutch East India Company in the 1660s, the airport serves as the main gateway to eastern Indonesia and is a major aviation hub in the region. It is the largest airport in eastern Indonesia and one of only three international airports in Sulawesi. The airport serves as a key hub connecting western and eastern Indonesia, offering domestic flights to major cities in western Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, and Balikpapan, as well as destinations in eastern Indonesia, including Ambon, Ternate, Sorong, and Jayapura. It also provides international connections to destinations such as Singapore and Malaysia. Additionally, the airport is one of the primary embarkation points for Hajj pilgrims from eastern Indonesia, with seasonal flights to Jeddah and Medina.

In addition to serving as a commercial airport, Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport also hosts the Sultan Hasanuddin Air Force Base, a Type-A facility operated by the Indonesian Air Force. It is one of the largest air force bases in eastern Indonesia and is home to four Air Force squadrons: the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron, which operates Boeing 737-200 and CN 235-220 aircraft; the 11th Combat Squadron, equipped with Sukhoi Su-27 and Su-30 fighter jets; the 33rd Transport Squadron, which flies Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft; and the 044th Engineering Squadron.

History

Colonial era

Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport was first built by the Dutch colonial government in 1935 and was originally known as Kadieng Airfield.

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The public source identifies “Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport” as international airport serving Kota Makassar, Indonesia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sultan, Hasanuddin and International.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1631, 1670, 1935—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sultan, Hasanuddin and International providing the first useful test.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1432006. Authority coordinates are -5.062, 119.554. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1631, 1670 and 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.