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Long, slow death of Indonesia’s national plane dream

JAKARTA – Scattered along the runway at state-owned Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara’s (IPTN) aircraft manufacturing plant, workers punched the air and shouted “teknologi! teknologi!” as the twin-engine turboprop lifted off into blue skies over the hill city of Bandung. It was August 10, 1995, and the enthusiastic crowd was witnessing the maiden flight of IPTN’s […]

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